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14 Things to Expect in Pondicherry

1. Trading in meditation for manual labour at Auroville and the farm. Pick weeds and pluck chilis ‘til you throw your back out while scoring one-sixteenth of a karma point. Fun!
2. The Journal: Pondicherry will bestow upon you the values of the IB and you will have to document your metamorphosis into the learner profile butterfly. What will evolve into great works of modern literature provide much entertainment on dull bus rides.
3. Bonding with people you never thought you would (never forget our informal slogan)
4. The commencement of at least 5 new relationships that come with secret liaisons in the fire escape.
5. Austere French people
6. Tamil people
7. Sweat
8.A bird park containing more bird poo than birds.
9. South Indian food!!!
10. A disappointing amount of time spent on beaches
11. A day at a Mahindra resort during which you will be tasered/pepper sprayed in the eyes if you attempt to use the facilities. The bouncy castle is not to be trespassed.
12. Pseudo-spiritual revelations from certain classmates who claim to have reached nirvana
13. A money-guzzling elephant who will lift your spirits with a friendly pat on the head
14. Dialogues on the origins of Sanskrit language, during which you will amuse yourself with the letter ‘ञ’ (NYA)

Theatre Arts performance of Eugene Ionesco’s The Lesson

Clash of the Titans: intensity, opportunities, stamina, and the novelty of a math teacher on the field. The future of BD Somani football is in good hands

Clash of the Titans: intensity, opportunities, stamina, and the novelty of a math teacher on the field. The future of BD Somani football is in good hands

Let the Political Scandals Commence

It seems as if our recent debate about campaigning and formal elections really fueled the eleventh grade’s fire. Many of our confused and stressed out twelfth grade IB students were assaulted after school today as some hungry eleventh grade student council hopefuls aggressively asserted their desires to gain some irrelevant student council position, and more importantly, another line on their resumes.

Personally, as students of BD Somani with only a few months left of school, we are simply thankful that we did not have to go through the IB with the added torment of nagging from newly-concocted titles of ‘CAS Support Officer’ or ‘House Event Manager’ and the bureaucratic mess that is a Student Council. So, to the Class of 2013 and beyond, you may suffer in peace. We do, however, have one small request. We would like to see the ‘President’ (or whatever esteemed title of supremacy that this body may have) be someone other than the Rohan-Anmol conglomerate that has already won over the school with their MUN/Prom campaigns. We know there are other able leaders within each one of you who should learn from their success, so we would rather leave the fate of this school (and our beloved publication) in the hands of someone who did not learn their life lessons from Abercrombie & Fitch.

We look forward to a few entertaining weeks of bribes, posters, glitter, bribes, speeches and more bribes as we elect our future Student Council. The BD Broadcast will be doing a full coverage of the events.

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