K-12 School Memories Meme

(Photo Hunt post is below this one.)

Sallie at A Gracious Home made this one up.

Apple Jacks or Captain Crunch with Crunch Berries
I am pretty sure I had had Apple Jacks and the regular Cap’n Crunch, though I am not a fan of either now.

Band or Choir
I was in choir the last two years of high school, probably some in elementary school, too.

Class Ring
I bought one to fit on my pinky finger — I don’t know why. It seemed fun at the time. But later I was embarrassed about it.

Ducks or Battleships
I don’t remember playing with either one in the bathtub.

Earning Money
Primarily I baby-sat. I did work in a non-chain fast food place — for about a week.

Favorite Teacher
I had the same teacher for first and second grade (it was a combined class for two years) named Mrs. Murphy. I really liked her though she was strict. The Lord enabled me to go to a Christian school the last two years of high school, and one of my favorites there was my pastor who taught Bible classes. That was probably the first focused instruction I’d had in the Word, and I lapped it up.

Go Back and Do Over
I think if I could do anything over I would have tried to be more open and less painfully shy. It took years to begin to break out of that. And in the school I went to for 8th-10th grade which was very clique-ish, I’d love to go back and look at those cliques through different eyes and realize they were just normal people, too, and not necessarily to be revered just because they were “popular.”

Home Economics
I think I took one Home Economics class. We made one fudge recipe I wish I still had. One of the dresses I made was a favorite.

Indoor Recess
I loved indoor recess — I never was much of an outdoorsy person. The one game I remember playing forindoor recess was “7-up.”

Jacks or Jump Rope
Both, in elementary school.

Kickball or Dodgeball
Probably both — only hazy memories of them.

Lunchbox
I don’t remember what any of my lunch boxes looked like (elementary school was a very long time ago!)

Musical
I don’t think any school I was in produced a musical.

Number of School Districts
Oh, my — in my elementary school days we moved every couple of years. Let’s see — for all 12 years (I didn’t go to K-5 — wasn’t required then) I think I may have been in 5 different school districts, at least.

Orange or Apple
I liked both.

Playground Equipment
I liked the swings and the slide.

Quiz Team or Debate
Neither.

Recess
Standing around talking or walking and talking or pretending to sing as a girl’s group (“Downtown” was a favorite, for some reason).

Spring Break
We probably had spring breaks, but I don’t remember them. I don’t think we went anywhere for them.

Team Sports
None. I am one of the most uncoordinated unathletic people on the planet.

Unfulfilled Dream
Related to school? There was a guy I really liked in 10th grade who never noticed me at all. I found out later that was for the best. Related to life in general, I have always wanted to write a book but haven’t yet.

Valuable
The most valuable part of my education was going to a Christian school in 11th-12th grade. I did not come from a Christian home and I learned so much at that school about the Bible and Christian life. Plus, because it was so much smaller, I got involved in a lot of things like yearbook and student council that I never would have dreamed of trying in the bigger public school I came from.

Walk or Bus
Walked some in elementary school and rode the bus 9th-10th grade to a town 10 miles away because the small town we were in (under 200) didn’t have a high school. For the other grades my mom took me.

X Country or Basketball
Neither.

Year
My favorite year was 12th.

Zzzzzz’s
Unfortunately most of my history classes were boring. I didn’t learn to love history til my first year in college, and that was my last history class.

Sallie has a Mr. Linky set up if you’d like to do this meme and leave a link there. Let me know in the comments if you do and I’ll be glad to come read yours. Please do credit Sallie with the meme since she created it.

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