I join the school choir because there are no auditions. All that’s required is that you have a ride to school early Friday mornings to rehearse before classes start. We perform a Christmas concert at Midland Park Mall. I have a recorder solo. My mother comes to watch.
I start writing my 7s with a line through the middle, like I hear the French girls do. The other kids in my class think I’m writing Fs. I pity them.
There are many new things this year. The facility where my swim team practices has added a new pool. It has a diving well with three diving platforms – 5 meters, 7.5 meters, and 10 meters. I perfect a dive off of the 3 meter springboard and jump feet-first off of the 5 meter. I never go higher. Weeks later, I watch the diving coach miscalculate a dive and hit the water face first. As the pool slowly fills with pinkish-red from her smashed nose, I realize I made a prudent decision avoiding the higher platforms.
Midland has built a new Junior High. It is very fancy. All the elementary schools feeding it get to go on a tour. I’m excited to see inside, but I know beforehand that I won’t be attending this school. We are moving to Victor, New York over the summer.
Read the rest of my education adventures here.
Sarah Cooley says
The wagon wheel is priceless!
Hemborgwife says
I did my 7’s with the line as well because that is how I saw my German grandparents do it and always felt so fancy! I actually still do it, but do not feel so fancy now it is just habit. I also liked to write my a’s like they look when you type them which was such a pain but I also thought it was so much fancier!
Helena says
I still do my 7s like that. I used to do the a’s like you are saying. I also did e’s so they looked kind of like backwards 3s.
Helena says
I know, right?
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