Do you remember ?
Straightning our hair and rolling it every night at the hostel even though it was so sore and of course our curry balls almost everyday and the "waite" prepared by Peniasi Kunabuli from Mr Sotutu's home which we have after studies in the night at school before running back to the hostel and looking out to sea thru the binoculars on top the roof of the Principal's home with Margaret Robinson her daughter and my best friend stepping from cooking classes.
Being punished by Mr Robin for not doing Maths homework..
PUNISHMENT: 100 squats
Luna and his Cart... lakree gulgula... Filaqe... Mrs YAni.. Pau and Osea the dwarfs..LOL!!
I have just returned from Levuka with my my wife(housegirl) Denise.I was so proud to see the school in the evening with the lights on.It looked so good that we chose to walk thru the grounds.The school was a 100% improvement on what we saw at the 125 year anniversary.If this is what we can achieve by fundraising (overseas and locally)and also have some dedicated people(Maciu, Manasa etc.) working from inside then our efforts will come to fruition. A BIG Vinaka to everyone who has participated in helping the OLD School.. - Alan & Denise Ricketts - October 2006
Just an awesome time of my life. Too many memories to mention - all just good, the kind that brings a smile to one's face. Look forward to seeing old friends at the next reunion, have missed all pevious ones for one reason or another. - Annabelle
Getting a hiding for playing marbles till late outside Shiu Pal's shop - Sept. 2006
Buying Maria's rourou and gulgul - Sept 2006
I'm very grateful but not indebted for the education LPS was able to offer me and also grateful for the expatriate and local teachers that did their jobs so very well and to some extent made me the person I'm today. Most of all I consider myself very fortunate that my parents chose and made it possible for me to grow up and be educated in Paradise!
So much has been mentioned of the hard work done by certain individuals in helping the school for its present and future students. Today these individuals have the advantage of being exposed to electronic media to communicate. In saying this I would like to remind you that in the past we have had overseas and local ex scholars and non ex scholars do their best in their way to help the school not only financially but in other ways. eg expert advice, manual labour etc. Let us not forget them!
We have always had struggling parents trying to pay school fees, boarding fees, sports trips, (for those of us that played sport) school and sports uniforms etc and today it is more prevalent in the town of Levuka because of the economy. (unemployment)
I would like to remind the overseas ex scholars that have stayed away from Fiji for a very long period of time that it is always the Fijian hospitality that they lay it on with food to welcome any of us visiting the school. They will give their last cent to provide food for any visitor - its up to us to think of this and be prepared to give a donation, it will go a long way, may even pay for the spread that they have lavished on us.I wish every ex scholar the very best in their endeavours to help in anyway to a very much loved school. They need every bit of help they can get! - Aug 2006
beautiful site.... - July 2006
Thank you so very much Manasa for the photos on this site. We are indebted to you - opening our eyes to the condition of the school. It is a crying shame and I will do all that I can to restore our school to its former glory! - Ada Prins (Whippy) - May 2006
I love the rakavono pics because my unty irene was one of the guitar player.... and im also glad that we have something that can lightness up our school... so thanks to you all Regards Lani R - July 2005
Going down to the Craft Center, and "viri" mangoes along the way ...!! Those hectic training session by Mr Jotame Kada...for the interhouse ..Those memorable years when LPS was the undisputed Schools Hockey Champ.. I remember a Sunday mornin going to church with no voice to sing with ... all used up in the kaikaila on saturday .. yep ACTION was the star then !! - May 2005
Visiting the hostel girls when you know that all the boys would be lurking about.....
Rishi and his bean bike cart............
Brownies bonfire camp nite..............
Mrs Vasu sending us outside because we wanted to fart............... from Rosie & Darryl
Playing pani until the sun disappeared
Playing that other game with the long stick and the short stick. The short stick was laid across a hole in the ground. Using the long stick, you flicked the short stick as far as you could. "Fielders" would try to catch this stick. The person who got it threw it at you. You tried to hit it away with some fancy kind of sweeping motion. When it landed you used the long stick as a measurement to count how many lengths it was away from the hole. The idea was to throw the short stick as close as possible to the hole. You were out if you couldnt make a length....that was such a great game.......and Dorothy was such a cheater..!!!!!! What was it called? - Thanks for the answer Margery Johnson - GOOSEY GOOSEY GANDER !!!!
Playing sports until the sun went down, hockey practice, athletics training, netball practice , volleyball, and running,,,nothing but running. Using the pavillion seats as steps for training...Taking my grandmother home with me so I wouldnt get a hiding for being late....
Playing marbles, playing "for keeps", arranging all these "holes" in the mud, "two kind", the circle thing..how many's up?...
Spinning your tops, trying your hardest to split your enemy's one, what about the drawing pins on them?
Swimming at the falls until your lips turned purple and your skin all wrinkly...Watching the older kids play tag by running accross that top step in groups of about 10... Finishing the swim off with a feed of mangoes.
Trying to catch the leaves that fell from the trees on Church Street....to make a wish
Rubbing the whitewash from the newly whitewashed stones onto our fingernails and polishing them to look like clear nail polish
Swimming at the market bridge.........and who could forget the Saturday morning marketplace
Swimming at the reservoir.......was it the drinking water one?...ooops.....
School hockey trips.......athletics trips.....other sports trips
Who remembers going to prep? Ringing the school bell....Making the tea for stafff...is that stilll being done?
Climbing the peak........sending mirror flashes
And what about our school uniforms? Who remembers starched belts, wide.......short skirts...kneeling and getting measured for the standard 3 inches above the knee...sandals from Jeevans...the ones that never wore out ....you only needed the one pair because it lasted forever....teasing Jeevan when you went pick up your shoes........him threatening to lock you up IF he caught you.......
The bowling green.....
What else do you remember?
