Profile Featurette #11

Bishop Viard College
aka. BVC
aka. Viard

Since The Sam has become a household name, Viard has become a school that parents have wanted their kids to be taught at. Icons such as Bum Joon, Sam McClean, Derek Wan and Steve Cubis all hail from its dark lonely corridors.

But it was not always such a highly regarded school.

In 1997 when Steve and Sam started, the toilets were cleaned once every two weeks, so after the first three days, students would have to find their own means of toilet paper. The desks that each student had dated back to the sixties, and the text books in most subjects had not only been used for decades, they had been given to the school second hand from one of the neighbouring schools.

The canteen was cruddy and so was the soccer. Nothing was good and it was made worse when students realised that the biggest mental hospital in New Zealand was just behind the school.

Sam and Steve struggled to come to grips with their situation Steve used computers to get away from it, and Sam used soccer. The soccer team had not one a game since 1992 (thats the truth), and played like idiots. Sam also worked in the school canteen.

But one day in April 2001, someone came who would change school life forever. Nick Kim. With his seemingly non-caring attitude saying stuff like "whats the point" or "its just inevitable" he brought the old system to its knees. Sam practices shots on the field with Joon, except Sam never shot and Nick never was keeper. Nick paid well over $500 in damaged windows.

Derek arrived as well, and for some reason he never went to class. He would be seen just wandering around school doing nothing during class time.

At the sixth form formal, Nick was late to the formal suit shop so he had to wear casual clothes. He would also point out to the english class, very strange things. for example, once he said loudly in a casual intellegent voice that "fionas wearing pink underwear". Yet, to be truthful, he had only been in New Zealand two years, and he came first in English out of the whole class in bursary. Nick became known for his massive long range shots when he played left wing for the 1st XI, and he became widely known for his dribbling skill and lack of passing.

Yeah, school was tough for our heroes. For them, Viard was a chore, something they were forced into, they didn't choose it, but BVC forged their destiny.