[Meme] questions about high school
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edenfalling1. Did you date someone from your school? Yes, in sophomore year I dated Ryan, who then stalked me (politely) for a few months, and with whom I maintained a somewhat dysfunctional friendship for about four more years. We have since lost touch.
2. Did you marry someone from your high school? I'm single.
3. Did you car pool to school? Yes, with my friend Cat.
4. What kind of car did you have? None, but after my dad lost his job, I often had use of a red Toyota Corolla station wagon.
5. What kind of car do you have now? None. I can't afford the insurance!
6. It's Friday night...where are you? (then): At home, reading or doing homework... or occasionally at a friend's house or a movie theater.
7. It is Friday night...where are you? (now): At home, reading or writing.
8. What kind of job did you have in high school? Part-time personal assistant to Pat Selvage. Back then, I was mostly making dinner and helping her to bed, which meant I often didn't get home until 1:30 or 2:00am.
9. What kind of job do you do now? Store clerk.
10. Were you a party animal? Hell no.
11. Were you considered a flirt? See above.
12. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir? All three! Also jazz chorus, guitar ensemble, and pit orchestra for the spring musicals. And I did backup singing for show band once. (Show band was what we had instead of a marching band; I would've been in that, too, except the oboe is not really a marching band instrument.)
13. Were you a nerd? Very much so, except I didn't study or do homework... which probably made me even more annoying. *grin* But I was lucky. My class had enough people who would have been "outsiders" that we were able to essentially run a separate social system alongside the more typical "popular kids'" system. And there was also enough overlap between the systems that we didn't really fight. (I am given to understand that middle school was bad for a lot of people, but I think things had smoothed out by freshman year. Certainly by sophomore year.)
14. Did you get suspended or expelled? No. I had (mostly) learned to control my temper by high school.
15. Can you sing the fight song? We didn't have one. I know we had an anthem, because people sang it at graduation, but I never knew the words or the tune... which is weird, because I played it several times at other people's graduation ceremonies!
16. Who was/were your favorite teacher/s? Frau Milder, my German teacher. Her students consistently achieved the highest proportion of top scores on the AP language tests of all foreign language students (relative to class size), mostly because she didn't teach us! We had minimal vocabulary lists and grammar lessons, since she got most of the technical stuff out of the way in middle school. In high school, we had to write one short essay a week (on anything we wanted to -- it was more like a journal, which she'd correct for grammar and so on) and do some minimal nods toward schoolwork, but generally she let us hang out and talk about whatever we felt like. The catch was that we had to talk in German. It was an amazingly effective faux immersion program, and fun besides. *grin*
17. Where did you sit during lunch? It depended on the day. Choir rehearsal was during lunch, so twice a week I ate in the auditorium. Sometimes people would surreptitiously eat in the band room. But generally I ate in the cafeteria with a shifting group of friends and acquaintances.
18. What was your school's full name? Madison High School
19. When did you graduate? 2000
20. What was your school mascot? A banana. Yes, really. (...okay, officially we didn't have a mascot, but our colors were maroon and gold, so somebody made a giant banana costume at some point and it stuck. The girls' field hockey teams had a ladybug as their private mascot, but they were rather cult-like, so nobody was surprised that they refused to share the general mascot.)
21. If you could go back and do it again, would you? What earthly reason would I have for doing that?
22. Did you have fun at Prom? More or less. Probably more at my prom than at Ryan's... which he asked me to literally four days before the dance, because his then-girlfriend backed out on him. *headdesk* I am still astonished that I managed to find a dress in time!
23. Do you still talk to the person you went to Prom with? No, Evan and I lost touch.
24. Are you planning on going to your next reunion? That would probably be in 2010? If anyone contacts me, I guess I'd go.
25. Do you still talk to people from school? Cat and Susan are still two of my best friends and I exchange Christmas cards with Akiko. I've lost touch with everyone else.
My high school was small for a town of 15,000 people. This was mostly because I grew up in one of the wealthiest per capita counties in the US, so a lot of people sent their children to private schools instead of the public high school. But it was also because I was born in 1982, which seems to have been the first year (nationally speaking) that Baby Boomers started having kids en masse. In my freshman year, the graduating class had 99 people. My class had about 130. My little sister's class had, I think, 160. So I attended a school with an average of 500 students, while she attended a school with an average of 600-700 students. Demographics are weird like that.
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The OWL teacher, Lisa K., needs an assistant each week, but my co-teachers have divvied up the days without requiring me to be there at all. I feel like a freeloader. On the other hand, this frees me to attend more services, which is always nice, and it's not as if I didn't offer myself. I think I shall simply enjoy my free time!
2. Did you marry someone from your high school? I'm single.
3. Did you car pool to school? Yes, with my friend Cat.
4. What kind of car did you have? None, but after my dad lost his job, I often had use of a red Toyota Corolla station wagon.
5. What kind of car do you have now? None. I can't afford the insurance!
6. It's Friday night...where are you? (then): At home, reading or doing homework... or occasionally at a friend's house or a movie theater.
7. It is Friday night...where are you? (now): At home, reading or writing.
8. What kind of job did you have in high school? Part-time personal assistant to Pat Selvage. Back then, I was mostly making dinner and helping her to bed, which meant I often didn't get home until 1:30 or 2:00am.
9. What kind of job do you do now? Store clerk.
10. Were you a party animal? Hell no.
11. Were you considered a flirt? See above.
12. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir? All three! Also jazz chorus, guitar ensemble, and pit orchestra for the spring musicals. And I did backup singing for show band once. (Show band was what we had instead of a marching band; I would've been in that, too, except the oboe is not really a marching band instrument.)
13. Were you a nerd? Very much so, except I didn't study or do homework... which probably made me even more annoying. *grin* But I was lucky. My class had enough people who would have been "outsiders" that we were able to essentially run a separate social system alongside the more typical "popular kids'" system. And there was also enough overlap between the systems that we didn't really fight. (I am given to understand that middle school was bad for a lot of people, but I think things had smoothed out by freshman year. Certainly by sophomore year.)
14. Did you get suspended or expelled? No. I had (mostly) learned to control my temper by high school.
15. Can you sing the fight song? We didn't have one. I know we had an anthem, because people sang it at graduation, but I never knew the words or the tune... which is weird, because I played it several times at other people's graduation ceremonies!
16. Who was/were your favorite teacher/s? Frau Milder, my German teacher. Her students consistently achieved the highest proportion of top scores on the AP language tests of all foreign language students (relative to class size), mostly because she didn't teach us! We had minimal vocabulary lists and grammar lessons, since she got most of the technical stuff out of the way in middle school. In high school, we had to write one short essay a week (on anything we wanted to -- it was more like a journal, which she'd correct for grammar and so on) and do some minimal nods toward schoolwork, but generally she let us hang out and talk about whatever we felt like. The catch was that we had to talk in German. It was an amazingly effective faux immersion program, and fun besides. *grin*
17. Where did you sit during lunch? It depended on the day. Choir rehearsal was during lunch, so twice a week I ate in the auditorium. Sometimes people would surreptitiously eat in the band room. But generally I ate in the cafeteria with a shifting group of friends and acquaintances.
18. What was your school's full name? Madison High School
19. When did you graduate? 2000
20. What was your school mascot? A banana. Yes, really. (...okay, officially we didn't have a mascot, but our colors were maroon and gold, so somebody made a giant banana costume at some point and it stuck. The girls' field hockey teams had a ladybug as their private mascot, but they were rather cult-like, so nobody was surprised that they refused to share the general mascot.)
21. If you could go back and do it again, would you? What earthly reason would I have for doing that?
22. Did you have fun at Prom? More or less. Probably more at my prom than at Ryan's... which he asked me to literally four days before the dance, because his then-girlfriend backed out on him. *headdesk* I am still astonished that I managed to find a dress in time!
23. Do you still talk to the person you went to Prom with? No, Evan and I lost touch.
24. Are you planning on going to your next reunion? That would probably be in 2010? If anyone contacts me, I guess I'd go.
25. Do you still talk to people from school? Cat and Susan are still two of my best friends and I exchange Christmas cards with Akiko. I've lost touch with everyone else.
My high school was small for a town of 15,000 people. This was mostly because I grew up in one of the wealthiest per capita counties in the US, so a lot of people sent their children to private schools instead of the public high school. But it was also because I was born in 1982, which seems to have been the first year (nationally speaking) that Baby Boomers started having kids en masse. In my freshman year, the graduating class had 99 people. My class had about 130. My little sister's class had, I think, 160. So I attended a school with an average of 500 students, while she attended a school with an average of 600-700 students. Demographics are weird like that.
---------------
The OWL teacher, Lisa K., needs an assistant each week, but my co-teachers have divvied up the days without requiring me to be there at all. I feel like a freeloader. On the other hand, this frees me to attend more services, which is always nice, and it's not as if I didn't offer myself. I think I shall simply enjoy my free time!
