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Some Things we did
On some Sundays the Prefect would announce that we would be going to Lands End for an outing. We knew what it meant, so we had old jam bottles ready. Then we treked in orderly lines in pairs on Hill Road towards St Andrews Church and along the sea face to Lands End. Once there…
Music & Movies
Ever hear of the Binaca Hit Parade. No! Neither did I, until a kind adopted Uncle living on Bazaar Road just behind the Boarders Dormitories decided that the least he could do was to play that hit parade real loud for us boarders. And so, we learnt about Frank Sinatra, Pat Boone, Jim Reeves, Cliff…
Hungry Boarder
Mea Culpa (maxima)! Yes, I confess. Hey what could I (we) do, we always seemed to be hungry. With little or no pocket money, buying extras from Bro Pinerio (a great artist) was out of the question. So was buying during school from Master Gregory’s canteen. He and his son Nobert were on the look…
Great insights as to why we should change ….
….. our attitudes to education today. How we encourage our children and push them. Even more so on how we work with students who are not the “brightest” according the systems we measure. Sir Ken Robinson is a well-known educator and speaker at TED and other forums. This talk is an abridged video of a longer lecture….
Stanislaus Cool (This is an extract from the book ‘Bomoicar: Stories of Bombay Goans 1920-1980’)
Stanislaus Cool by Tony Noronha When I first arrived in Bombay in 1937, it appeared too vast to my nine-year-old head. I had never been in a city that was well-lit and abuzz till 8.30 pm. I was brought to the city by our Goan vicar, Fr Jose Remedios, after two years of kindergarten at…
St Stanislaus High School Waste Management Project (on TV9)
TV9 featured our project on their programme Shaka 9 https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.412477082181109.1073741828.236514753110677&type=1links:1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wy6Mbw0olw2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsVrjBwrNAY3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFMH_S-B4hU http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=decomposition+project+in+ban…