Hello, teachers, staff, students, and other beings of Sacred Heart College. I am speaking here today on this video file because I care. I care about Sacred Heart.
Some of you may believe - in fact I know, have heard that they believe - that I am not fit to be a school captain. They say that I am ‘rash’, ‘overly stubborn’, ‘propaganda-inclined’, ‘from a nonexistent homeroom’, ’of unclear dimensional provenance’, ‘green to a fault’. I reject almost all - in fact most - of these labels. The truth is, I have always been here for this school. It is my greatest passion. In all my years at Sacred Heart College I have seen empires rise and fall, but one thing remains the same - the Power of Greene.
I identify with all of this school’s Mercy Values. It was in fact a great shame that I did not win any SoSH awards this year or any of them, but oh well it is what it is etc. I respect each one of you. Every one of you has the same quality - you are an individual. I seek Justice of the Greenest Kind. I seek to Serve the Greenest Cause. I seek compassion and hospitality for every Sacred Heartian - never mind the Spirit of Sacred Heart Award, it is you who gives me my spirit. And as Catherine McAuley once wrote, “Speak as your mind directs and always act with courage.” As a gesture of my respect for Catherine, I have courageously not edited this speech whatsoever.
I know we can push Sacred Heart College (Kyneton) into the utopian state it has always had the potential to be. It is teamwork, combined effort under the glorious Greene Way, the #88ff88-fold Path (note this is a reference both to Buddhism’s 'Eightfold Path' and to the colour with hex code #88ff88 which is a shade of Green, it is a high-level allusion that may go over some of your heads! Haha.), that will secure us enlightenment. There has never been a better time to Go Greene, my dear students.