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Magazine’s special night with

TINA ARENA!!!

Grief & Loss– Ways to feel better & heal

TIPS FOR A XMAS BREAK UP PARTY!!

Behind the scenes of our short film

Find out...What’s on our Bucket List &... What’s not!!

MEET OUR REPORTERS

ISSUE 3

Jana May Tregenza

What role do you play on the magazine? I am the Magazine

Editor and a Reporter Favourite Breakfast? Just Right cere-

al. Where would you like to travel to? UK to see where Har-

ry Potter was filmed Favourite Film: Twilight If I was the

leader of the country for one day I would: Give out free

tickets to a movie concert and make a rule that people can

only have one or two alcoholic drinks so they have fun but

don’t get drunk.

Felisha Bowen

What role do you play on the magazine? Reporter, In-

terviewer & Photographic Favourite Breakfast? Toast

with peanut butter or vegemite Favourite thing to do

when bored: Listen to music and read a book Where

would you like to travel to? Sydney to see the sights Fa-

vourite Film: 21 Jump Street One thing that bothers me

is: household chores If I was the leader of the country

for one day I would: Give all wheelies a new wheelchair

MEET OUR TEAM

Lynette Shaw

What role do you play on the magazine? Reporter and Inter-

viewer Favourite Breakfast? Porridge and strawberries Favour-

ite thing to do when bored: Play scrabble Where would you like

to travel to? Melbourne to visit my family Favourite Film: Never

Ending Story One thing that bothers me is when: I am doing a

puzzle and I get interrupted If I was the leader of the country for

one day I would: Take the gold cards off all the retired politicians

and have them live off the same amount as everyday pensioners.

Glen Carr

What role do you play on the magazine? I am a Photog-

rapher & Reporter: Favourite Breakfast? Bacon & Eggs

Where would you like to travel to? Gold Coast to see

Batman at Movie World

Favourite Film: Batman Series If I was the leader of the

country for one day I would: let everyone see a movie at

the cinemas for free

Magazine’s night with TINA ARENA At our first magazine meeting we agreed we wanted something GRAND for our front page

and we researched big events coming to Cairns. Someone suggested Tina Arena, and as big

fans we hopped to it...we googled her and got a contact, and then for weeks and weeks we

politely kept bugging her personal representative. Our Chief Editor, Jana, sent her PR an

email explaining who we are and requesting to meet and interview Tina Arena to find out

what’s on her Bucket List. The week the before the concert we phoned again and learnt that

that Sheridan had received a phone call to explain that she could not do an do an interview,

BUT, instead offered the Magazine Reporters complimentary tickets to her concert!!! What

an unexpected surprise for us, and boy did we celebrate!!! Jana was so overwhelmed that

she nearly cried and Glen’s grin was so big we were worried he’d face would crack.

Bindi Sutton came along too and all dressed up at the Convention Centre, we were bursting

with excitement. As soon as the doors opened we went in and OMG– we had the best seats

ever!!! Three rows from the front– we couldn't believe our luck!! We all agreed Tina Arena

was tops. And that she looked really gorgeous and her voice—WOW—a very powerful voice.

Tina was really funny too and had a few good jokes with the audience, such as; there was one

man up the front who was so overly excited and Tina told him not to peak too early, and she

kept checking in on him through–out the show, to make sure he had not peaked yet- it was so

funny. Another man in the audience yelled out ‘You should marry a Queensland, and Tina

laughed and said, ‘Sorry buddy, I do love you all, but you can forget Queenslanders, because

I am married to a French man!!’

We got to dance right up the front and Tina looked right at Glen and gave him a wink. Lynette

reached out and touched her finger tips. Jane and Karen joked saying they felt left out be-

cause she did not look or touch or wink at them, but Felisha didn't, because she said she got

lots of great shots and that Tina looked through the camera at her. Glen could not stop smil-

ing and we all betted that he had really sore cheeks the next day. Felisha and Jana explained it

was the first time they had ever been to a big concert like that and both said they gave it a

score of 100/10. Lynette said she really loved all of her outfits, especially the last one and Bin-

di said she was very lucky to come along. You could say, we all went home ‘happy campers!’

SIGN LANGUAGE Reported by Glen Carr

My name is Glen Carr and I have learnt sign language since I was a toddler. I am

not hearing impaired and can understand everything people say, and I can also

say some words, but I have difficulty communicating with my voice. Sign lan-

guage helps me and lots of people all over the world to communicate.

Sign language was the main way I communicated when I was growing up. I still

know the letters of the alphabet and can sign a lot of words. It was fun teach-

ing the magazine group the signs as part of my report. Sign language is still one

of the best ways I can communicate with friends, but at home I have a com-

munication device as well that is really helpful.

It is great when they have sign language interpreters and subtitles on the TV to

help hearing impaired people understand. Sometimes it can also be really fun-

ny, like one time I watched a stand up comedian on TV who had a sign lan-

guage Interpreter on stage and the Comedian kept saying cheeky and funny

words so the sign language Interpreter had to keep doing the funny signs, that

really made me laugh . I know all the letters of the alphabet and can teach you.

See if you can figure out what I am saying in the photographs below. I will give

you a clue, my favourite thing to do is to go the…

Behind the Scenes of Fool’s Gold Fool’s Gold is our original story that we wrote. It was inspired from an old fable called The En-

chanted Rock. Last year I was part of the scriptwriting program where we learnt how to create a

story and write a script. Originally it was a play, but we decided to turn it into a short film. It is

very exciting to be a part of this short film, everyone is really enthusiastic; in fact a lot of us

practice our lines every day and do rehearsals at morning tea and lunchtime. I have been cast as

the Queen and I am really enjoying this role. The Queen is a bit evil and crazy and acts like an

ape. It is a lot of work; I have had to learn all my lines and actions, but I am loving it all.

Our acting/filming group wanted to shoot around the iconic locations of Cairns, but by the time

we got to the location and Karen set up the video camera and started to film, it would already

be lunch time and it would have been a complete waste of time. So we decided as a group it

would be better if we film the start around iconic locations in Cairns and then the rest of the

scenes with the Dragon, the Queen and the Village People at the Community Hub, and it wasn’t

as stressful.

Behind the scenes information about the characters and preparing for our roles:

Dragon: Hayden plays the Dragon. Whenever the Dragon is on film he is in full costume and makeup. He is also half dragon and half crocodile. Hayden does a fantastic growl!

Guards: Troy and Alex.M are the Guards. Whenever the Guards are on film they are in full cos-tume and makeup. They are the Queen’s guards and after they have to help the Queen to get on the Dragon’s back, and end up with their heads in the Queen’s bottom, they quit and join the village people.

Queen: I (Jana) play the Queen and she is really evil. She is very rich and has taken all of the gold coins off the Village People and left them to starve. The Guards and the Dragon work together to try to stp the Queen from taking over the world...but if you want to know what happens, you will have to wait to see our short film!!!!

Village people: played by Alexis, Alex. H., Felisha, Mitch and then Troy and Alex. M. At the start the Village People are happy, but after the Queen comes into play they become poor, but again you will have to watch our film to see what happens!!!

Fool’s Gold is a hilarious short film. It also has some important messages. We all feel pretty clev-er and when it is complete we will enter it into short film competitions.

Grief & Loss How to feel better & heal

When you lose someone you love it is hard to explain all the different feelings you

have. The feelings are called grief. But sometimes people feel other things too, like

feeling heart broken, angry and frustrated.

My name is Lynette and I just lost someone I love and I feel sad, sad to miss the

person I love. But I also feel glad and happy for our time together. I want to write this

report because it might help me to heal my heart and because I want to share some

positive ways to help you feel better if you are grieving, and it will also help me to

feel good if I can help.

If you are grieving and feeling frustrated or angry it helps to feel better if you remind

yourself to remember the good times and be glad and happy for your time together. I

get myself a cup of tea and sit down and try hard to remember the nice times to-

gether and the lovely memories.

Sometimes it helps to do something nice for yourself. I suggest going for a drive to

the beach or to the Tablelands for a day out. You could go to lunch at the Edge Hill

Hotel for 2 hours and eat your favourite things.

You will have good days and bad days. Make a point a to get on with life. Make

yourself get up and go out and do the things you love.

If you feel down try and cheer yourself up. A way to cheer yourself up is to try and

remember funny things, like the time I had the toilet paper stuck to me and made a

train from my toilet to my bedroom-that one always cracks me up. Watch a funny

movie. Hang out with funny people. Laughter really is the best medicine.

You will have your ups and downs. If you find yourself looking for the person and

then realise they are gone, it will hurt, but just take big deep yoga breathes.

Family and friends are amazing, and it is okay to turn to them for support. Friends

will probably bring flowers and cook meals and take

you shopping. We go to church with them on the week-

ends. We also get a lot of phone calls to see how we

are. I hope all of this helps you to heal your heart.

Thanks to everyone who has helped me through my

grief. Thanks for all your love and care.

Report by Lynette Shaw

Jana

Meet Donna Hay , watch her cook and ask her

for some tips on how to make a cookbook

Go and see the Hogwarts school of witchcraft

and wizardry , meet Emma Watson & Joanne

Rowling and get tips on writing

Travel around the world with my boyfriend

Jana

Go to a country where they don’t understand me

Be forced to bungy jump

Don’t want to die early

Nowhere where there are snakes or crocodiles

Karen

Be in a forest with big spiders

Swimming in the deep ocean

Felisha

Skydiving-scared of heights

Go into a jungle by myself

Going camping

Mitch

Don’t want to see clowns, I wont even go to the circus I don’t want to meet Mr. Bean, he scares me

Mitchel Hodgson

Meet the actor who plays Emily in the TV show Revenge

I want to meet Hamish & Andy from the radio and TV

I would like to see Ricky Martin in concert

I would love to stay in Vegas and see famous people like Katie Perry Karen Jackson

See wolves in the wild

Have a pet pelican

Travel through India

Swim with whales again

Learn to properly surf

Felisha Bowen

See and feed wild animals in Asia,

Go to Cambodia

Swim with dolphins at Sea World

Meet Peter from Home and Away

Mona Sands

Go to Sydney and go clothes shopping

Spend a day at the Taronga zoo with the meerkats

Go to Disneyland

Lynette

Live on my own

Walk in long grass

Go to Russia

Swim with crocs or sharks

Glen Carr

Fall off a cliff like bungy jumping

A dragon to blow fire on me

Go to Melbourne-too cold

Josh Jaensch

Help impoverished communi-

ties overseas.

More travel and spending time

out in nature.

Be the best person I can be.

Ben Keast

Can tick off going to the Biggest Tomato fight in Vienna

Go to New York

Ben Keast

Diving with sharks

Bungy jumping Josh

Seeing a saltwater crocodile

whilst swimming or kayaking.

Live in a huge city.

Jan Derks

Watch the sun go down and up in the

Carribean

Go to Europe

Skilydive & Hanglide

Jan Derks

Get eaten by a shark

Glen Carr

Go to Movieworld, Go on a speed-boat, Watch the LA Lakers in LA

OUR IDEAS FOR an END OF

YEAR BREAK-UP PARTY

Tips for what NOT to do at a break up party:

Don’t recommend serving up baked beans, curried eggs or too much garlic

Don’t mix up peoples names

Don’t taste too many beers and make an idiot of yourself

Don’t wear long sleeves when you are cooking

Don’t start arguments over girlfriends

Don’t look at the host’s private parts when they are lean-

ing over and serving food

Don’t start a food fight-unless you plan to clean it up!!

If it is at someone elses house, don’t be a sticky beak

and sneak around their house

MENU SUGGESTIONS

Breadsticks & a dip Banana choc muffins Sausage rolls

Devil’s eggs (but be wary if you are going to close dance with

someone afterwards)

Pikelets Salmon rolls Chocolate pizzas (bit of a fun risk)

Drinks: Sexy Sling (a non-alcoholic cocktail) - that will get the party going!!

Tips for what to DO if you are hosting a party:

Serve finger food, it is easier to eat and clean up afterwards

Take some menu risks and have fun with the food

you serve

Play some upbeat, cool music

Set food on a table so everyone can get to it

After the food move the tables so people can dance

Little gifts or awards are fun to hand out during the night