Fractals - Waring School

e n d t e r mf r o m t h e f i e l dYeehaw! North CarolinaWhen I get home, finally gethome, I want to rememberthis. I want to keep thecool mornings and the hot afternoonsthat made my shirt stick to my back. Iwant to keep the flashing lights floatingagainst the soft shape of the treesand the waking up to the high-pitchedcall for Blue Boy. I want to keep thewhispers, the giggles, and the snores.I want to keep the feeling of watchingmy photo paper fade into images. I wantto keep the flowers sprinkled on me inTrashville and the sensation of dippingmy hands into dirty, soapy water, Caitlinscrubbing next to me. I want to keepthe fat raindrops that quickly drenchedthe deck and Peter’s forearms turningthe fiery color of his hair. I want to lookback and keep everything.-Megan Clasby’ 13A few members of the Yeehaw! End Termsketching on top of Roan Mountain.We stand in a line and holdhands. Not like the way youdo when you’re in kindergarten.We are not doing this becauseour teachers think we will run away,or get lost in the hallways of a schoolbuilding. We are holding hands becausewe are walking toward the unknown. Ilareaches out until our palms touch, andthen she wraps her fingers and tugs.Teddy quickly realizes that I am movingand grabs hold. As we reach the beginningof the forest, Ila holds tighter. I’mafraid of having my back to the woods.I’ve seen enough scary movies to knowwhat lurks in the dark. It’s a comfort tohave someone squeeze my hand, sendinga pulse through my fingers.-Tory Leach ’08The Québec End Term poses near the Kabir Koubawaterfall on the Huron-Wendat Reserve.Québec 1608-2008The Québec End Term set offnorthward to learn more aboutthe ramifications of Québec’s400th anniversary for the native populationof 1608 and later. Having lookedat the clash between Europeans andnatives in our own area, we then visitedOdanak, an Abenaki reserve midwaybetween Montreal and Québec, andtheir museum and chapel. In Québecitself, we looked at the evangelization ofthe natives by the Jesuits and Ursulines,and at the Museum of the Ursuline Sisters,who ran a school for settler andnative girls. We also went to the Muséede la Civilisation to learn about Québec’shistory and about First Nationcommunities then and now. Finally, wewent to a Huron reserve just outsideQuébec. In between, we explored thecity, we cooked dinner at the hostel,we picnicked and ate at restaurants, wetook a ferry across the St. Lawrence,we watched street performers, and wefantasized about awful tortures for thenoisy co-tenants of our hostel.-Alison Fraser ’06 waring school journal summer 2008