As I sit in Chris’s backyard looking at the naked Andrew and Brett slowly gaining depth in the cold pool, I can’t help but wonder how funny their floating penis’s look. Another funny looking thing is what Unley High School looks like now. I remember being in primary school and constantly being told that they were going to be completely redoing the playground or something, we didn’t know what they were going to do, but whatever it was going to be, it warranted constant casual days with gold coin donations, and instead of a worthy charity or something, the money would always go towards the new playground. Reaching the seventh and final year of primary school, the playground was still the splinter giving wooden mess that it always was. Graduating from the seventh grade, or moving on, or whatever you call it when you go from primary school to high school, the playground was still the same as it was when I started back in reception, eight years ago.
Year eight was amazing, because you got off at half past two every Wednesday, which was an hour earlier than Unley Primary School. We used to walk from Unley High School to Unley Primary School on Wednesdays and say hello to the year sevens that we knew better as the year sixes, and pick up our brothers and or sisters. Something we did notice, besides the fact that the mums and teachers were much hotter, was that they had gotten a completely new playground to replace the mess of wood, steel and nails that pointed out and cut us up when we jumped from one section of the playground to the other. The old bark chips that got stuck in your legs as you fell on them and cut you up something mean were replaced with new, softer bark chips, which actually served as bark chips. We weren’t entirely fussed though; I mean it was annoying how we were stuck with the piece of shit playground for our entire primary school lives but we did grow to love it as the years progressed, and I guess that we didn’t really notice how bad it was until we saw the new one.
As high school students we weren’t promised many upgrades, most of the casual days were gold coin donations that were actually donated to charities, and the school didn’t have any playgrounds that needed upgrades, and the school seemed fairly well off as it was. The only main upgrade that we saw was the new canteen, which was a fairly big upgrade, but that happened in year eight so it’s not like we were used to the old one yet. Reaching year twelve, the school looked essentially the same as it did when we started, but as the years went by we all noticed the slow diminishment of everything that surrounded us. I was told that the benches would be replaced with new steel ones after we leave, but I didn’t really care, like, at all...
Today I went to watch Andrew and Brett play A Grade indoor, but instead I ended up watching some netball or something but that isn’t the point, the point is that after getting out of the car, after closing the door, after re-arranging my balls and stretching, I looked over at where I would look if I was walking over to the general schooling area and I saw these huge ass... things... sticking out of the ground, and it just looked odd. It looked like they are converting it from a school into some kind of sports dome or something, and I just don’t know why. It looked absolutely ridiculous, but I couldn’t help but think that this is exactly like primary school... updated from the second I left... then again, I can’t say that I am at all disappointed, I mean I have finished school, so if you are reading this and still go to school, I hope you have fun in that sports dome, you loser.
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