Bad digestion

Food flew all over the place, teachers yelled, girls cried, boys laughed, people sidestepped spaghetti while others had been swinging their lunch. That’s what happened last year at JND, when students of secondary 5 started throwing food which had a snowball effect.

Why did it all begin? Nobody really knows. However, we do know that it had been planed, but we don't know why. So the only thing we can do is to speculate on it.

What's interesting is not the first food fight in JND’s history, but mostly the side effects of it. Some of the side effects are obvious. A good example of them would be the mess that had been created in the cafeteria and all the stained clothes.

To find out the long terms effects, I've interviewed someone who’s always in the cafeteria and was there when it all began: Liliane. She was struck dead by surprise. First she tried to stop it. However, she knew that it was impossible. Than, she took cover by hiding behind the trash can. She was saddened by the student’s behavior. As she said in her interview:” I was really disappointed by the way they acted because we’ve took our time on a Sunday to prepare graduation ceremony, and to thank us the secondary 5 started a food fight”. She also said that the things she liked the most was the atmosphere of the school. However, she said that after the food fight, the atmosphere of the school sent shivers down her spine.

Since Liliane works as a support staff, I interviewed Richard, who’s more involved in the school administration. He was really upset because the students in 5^th grade didn’t act maturely as without considering the consequences of their acts.

He told me: “It didn’t disturb me that the secondary 5 had done a great feat to emphasize their last days at the JND. One year, the secondary 5 climbed on the juvenat’s bell tower and rang it twice while hanging a banner.” The difference was that the administration knew what was going to happen. Since the dozen slabs couldn’t be cleaned, they had to be replaced. The cancelation of the famous hot-dog dinner was mostly because they didn’t want to reward the student’s behavior.

This event had repercussions on everyone in the school. Now that you know the whole story,would you ever consider doing it again?

By Xavier Boucher for the JND post, Quebec, October 12th 2009

The beginnig

I was born in 1994, more exactly the 6th of May. I was the first of two. I was the second little child of my grand-parents and the first boy.

I was a lonely child until my parents made me a brother.

At that age, I wasn't complaining about the fact that I was alone; I had all the attention for me. Somehow I did know it would be more pleasant with a brother.

To make me more comprehensive with the fact I'll be having a brother, my parents bought me a little doll and while my mother was at the hospital, they told me it was my brother and I knew it wasn't him so I took the doll and threw it right down the stairs.




We're the 22nd of June and I'm now with a new family member: Antoine.

I'm dealing okay with the fact that I'll have to share all my things, but I'm really enjoying the fact that I have someone to play with.

A funny anecdote about me and my brother is that when I first saw him in the hospital, the first thing he did wasn't to smile, or cry like lots of babies would have done. He was original, so the first thing he did when he saw me was to pee on me. That's how it all begins between my brother and I.







Presently, I’m going at the Juvénat-Notre-Dame, in Secondary 4.

I’m living in St-Étienne so I’m taking the bus every day to go to school.

It takes me 45 minutes but theses minutes are passing so fast because I’m in good company with Marie, my bus driver. Last summer, I worked 35 hours per week in a small restaurant call “ Resto 2000” as washing the dishes and also I’ve also did preparation, which’s is to cut all the vegetables, fruits, meet, prepare the fries, the sauce ,etc.

I’m in a kind of strict family so I was used to spare away my “bad energy” in the summer. However, I couldn’t because I was working, so I’m doing it in the sport and also a little bit in the school…

I’m kind of an active guy, preferring to do team sport for the spirit. What else could I say about me? I like to hang around with friends, being with my family and relaxing.