SOMETHING FROM EACH YEAR OF SCHOOL!

• KINDERGARTEN- my teacher's name was Mrs. Applanap.
• FIRST- I was mad because Sam got to go to afternoon kindergarten, so he got to watch all the cool television shows I was missing.
• SECOND- I told my teacher that my Dad was a werewolf, because I had overheard a conversation in which Mom said something to that effect.
• THIRD- had my first male teacher, he called all of us girls "Lady Bugs."
• FOURTH- I thought my Mom was going to die because the baby she was carrying was "killing her."
• FIFTH- I met my friend, Cindy Grove. (Don't know where she is now!)
• SIXTH- Terry Miller pretended to kiss me in the back of the room by the coat rack, so everyone thought he was my boyfriend. (?)
• SEVENTH- I thought FFA would be a fun club to join. I became friends with Julie Lehman, who had cows of her very own!
• EIGHTH- I ran for president of my class, but I lost.
• NINTH- I moved to Felton with Mom and met Laura Goughnour at school (was in her wedding later.)
• TENTH- second year of being a manager for the track and field team.
• ELEVENTH- I wrote some poems about how I thought people felt when they wanted to commit suicide. When I showed them to Mr. Tracey, he made me get counseling.
• TWELTH- on the first day of school I cried, because so many of my friends had graduated the year before. At graduation, I cried, because I would never be a student at Red Lion ever again, and had to grow up.
• COLLEGE FRESHMAN- I was the one girl who lost instead of gaining weight when I went away to college.
• COLLEGE SOPHOMORE- Even though I was very active in Campus Ministry and pledged Kappa Phi (Christian sorority) I felt very alone and far away from God.

I'm glad I'm a life long student of everything. This way I can keep in touch with my early education, yet continue to grow in new directions. I'm, also, not very encouraged when I read what I learned in fifteen years of schooling.