By Brooke Kilmurray, Elizabeth Eade, and Elizabeth Ie
As our time at Loreto draws to a close, we thought what better way to submit a final contribution to the Mary Word than to document our favourite Loreto quirks over the years! We hope you enjoy our compilation of unique characteristics that are essential to the Loreto experience - read to the end to find our bonus list of things that we definitely won’t miss after graduation!
THINGS WE WILL MISS!
New bell songs each week (it can be a lottery though!)
Gong (nap time)
Dancing in the quad and chanting for ONE MORE SONG!
Mr Moran’s Dad Jokes
Very random, sometimes ill-timed fire alarms (but a chance to chat nonetheless!)
Singing ‘Lanterns’ and ‘Oceans’ during liturgies (I can feel the tears coming)
My Daily Affirmation: “Women in time to come will do much,” by Mary Ward (what a Queen)
Teachers! (who become more like therapists in Year 12)
THAT THREE-WEEK TERM 2 HOLIDAY (actual heaven). Not to mention those very very long 8-week summer/Christmas holidays that somehow manage to fly by!
The collective drumroll (more like stamping) before a big award
FOOD PARTIES (whether it was Tutor Group birthdays, Year Time, class occasions, etc. - nothing beats the Woolies VANILLA mud cake!)
Ending the school year 2 weeks before the public schools
BENCH BALL
LORETO BROWNIES!! (and cookies of course)
And, finally, how could we forget the highlights of the Loreto calendar!? Loreto Day, Music Fest, Normo Fusion, the Christmas Liturgy, Sports Carnivals - the list goes on!
THINGS WE WILL NOT MISS!
EARLY MORNINGS
Waiting in the top quad before an exam (we don’t talk about the fact that it’s still not over)
Spending the whole day at school and then coming home to do more school work (it never ends!)
The fact that everything is blocked on the School’s wifi!! (Clickview kept me going!)
Swimming… DURING WINTER UNIFORM SEASON
15-minute recess… where are our human rights!?
Hotswaps
FRENSHAM matches (may as well spend the whole weekend in Bowral)
The unmatched PANIC when you’ve realised you forgot your conversation (I’m traumatized)
That Period 5 Post-Lunch Crash (some seriously low energy levels there…)
6:30/45 am sport trainings (bonus points if it’s during Winter)
Monday Period 1 (there’s still an ETERNITY ahead)
INTEGRATED LEARNING (speaks for itself)
The 10 minutes (or longer if you're like me) it takes to put on the winter uniform in Terms 2 and 3!
Fearing for my life in the old Curran Bathrooms
Our detached, dispassionate singing of Cruci during assemblies (c'mon guys, a little more energy please?)
Sunday Night Existential Crisis (AKA the Sunday Scaries)
Frostbite in the VRs during Winter (we evidently cannot stand the colder seasons)
Crowded Hallways… Mornane and Barry areas in particular
SEEING A LORETO AD ON A PUBLIC BUS AND GETTING SECOND-HAND EMBARRASSMENT (START HERE GO ANYWHERE? FIRST LORETO THEN THE WORLD!?)
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