March 2, 2007

• Featured_Grownups

  March 2007 Topic 1 of 2

  School Days

  Share
  memories, stories, life changing teachers or events from your School
  Days.  Be it Grade School, High School or Home School.  With all age
  groups participating this could be so much fun!

  
  

  Interesting topic, can’t wait to get around and read everyone else’s!!

  I can remember back to 18 mo of age, but that didn’t involve school.
  I do remember pre-school-it was in an apartment basement of where we lived at the time.
  The memories aren’t real fresh, as this was around 1956-7!  I just remember a lot of kids and a very sweet teacher, with dark hair

  Kindergarten took place,  I was deadset on playing with the wooden train set, but this one boy always got to it first.  I tricked him once, and got to play with it the whole time!  Ingenius even then.  I remember
  our teacher (Mrs Lausauker) left to have a baby, but she came back to show us her little one-I so loved her and
  missed her when she was gone.  I think there were a couple of times I didn’t make it to the bathroom on time,
  and it took me awhile to learn to tie the laces on the wooden shoe-had bad finger dexterity.
  Two of the things I loved to do were to play various lotto games and fingerpaint. When my mother first brought me to the kindergarten, I was shy and scared, and wanted only to fingerpaint.  I remember making Chinese lanterns out of construction paper and other fun stuff.

  1st grade, I remember a good teacher whose name started with a B-<b>NO</b> not that ‘B’-lol.
  It was magical learning how to read-I was entranced with discovering all there was to read!!

  3rd grade wasn’t very memorable, but I remember we moved before I was in 3rd grade.  Had a nice prematurely gray-headed teacher named Mrs Barkla.  I accidentally called her ‘Grandma’ when I went to her desk–I was mortified.  Her son gave magician shows from time to time, and we had a zoo visitor with a snake that I petted.
  It took me until the end of the year to come out of my shell.  I was a very scared and shy little girl.

  4th grade, I had Mrs. Constantinople-she wasn’t as nice as the rest, she worked us hard.

  5th and 6th grades were in the same school, and during 7th grade, my family moved again–it was so hard moving as much as we did.  The longest I lived in any one house-back then-was 7 years.

  7th grade was a whole new venture.  I made some friends and had to say goodbye.
  8th and 9th, I mostly remember Home Ec and school dances.  When I was 13, I ‘d invited a boy I liked-from another school-to my school dance.  My mother never found out!

  As I grew older, I got into booze and drugs, it was a freeing time, a ‘feel-good’ time, but I did get into some trouble then.  I dated pretty often and <b>loved</b> to dance!  I excelled in English and writing classes.

  I tranferred to a parochial school for my senior year.  My boyfriend, who was to be my first husband- went there, so I followed suit.  What a mistake!  I went from a huge high school with not much of a dress code, to a school that required uniforms, and strict rules.  My graduating class was only 31, but
  I never have gone to any of the class reunions, even though I was Class Secretary.

  I started writing poetry in junior high-was glad to find a niche I fit in, as I often felt like the outsider.

  I graduated in 1971, and ended up marrying (for the first time) in 1972–too young and
  way to naive!

  I purposely didn’t go into details as some of it was pretty bad, but I succeeded
  and graduated!

  What are your school stories?  Were you the class clown, or the most popular?

  Check out the other stories at

  Featured_Grownups!!

  ~Laurie

  

  

  Speaking of school, most of Minnesota’s (and other states) schools are closed, due to a double winter storm!

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