By Claire Heinichen, ‘11, Lighter Fare Section Editor. After a summer trip to the Down Under, senior Claire Heinichen gives tips on how to find adventure in Austrailia and make your way out alive.

Despite the recent economic downturn, many teachers enjoyed thrilling summer vacations in locales as exotic as Mexico or the Broadwell House. Some of you students may be wondering how teachers can afford to take a vacation in such difficult financial times, but when I talked to science teacher Brock Miller, he said, “How can we afford not to? You kids are terrors! I spend every single second counting down to the end of the bell, every bell counting down to the end of the day, and every day counting down to the end of the year when I can go on vacation and build sandcastles and never have to talk to students!” Then he chased me out of his office with a meter stick.

If you were not blessed to have the chance to hang out with junior Jules Cantor this summer, you missed out on a spectacle rivaling the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.