Hey Blogees...Sorry I have been slacking on the blog. I've been doing some other projects. I've been scanning and loading 2 of my Jr High yearbooks into Facebook. While it was a lot of stuff to scan, it was also great fun looking at all the old pics.
Jr High was definately a mixed experience for me. Our 7th grade class was the first class to be in the brand new Jr High. It was a strange time. First of all, my Dad was my Principal. My Dad happened to be an exceptional Administrator. To this day he is still loved by so many of past students. The hard part was that I was the Principal's son. I had everything going against me..I was the fat, unathletic, nerdy Principal's son. Lets put it this way. I ran for Student counsel one year..ok..EVERY year. One year I thought I had it...8 kids were running for 7 spaces on the counsel...OMG..there has to be at least one person who was running that my classmates hated more than me..Well..I was sooooo wrong..I was that person. I did have some friends in the drama group and chorus..but I so yearned to be accepted. Anyway..I had a lot of ghost's regarding my school years, but that changed about 4 years ago when a wonderful person put together a Yahoo group for our class. I realized we had all matured and Facebook soon followed and I got to revisit so many great people who I went to school with. I am so glad that we now have the technology to share old pics and even old yearbooks.Ahhh The memories..
well, thats all for now..
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Many of us go through Jr. High and High school feeling like a non-entity. The problem for most kids is that they often feel like they are the only one. I know that I felt like that for many of those years. Your blog entry could be told by many kids which is why I am glad I read your blog entry. At 46 years old and two kid of my own I know now that other kids felt the same way I did and your story confirms that even more. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteOne other point is that as we have gotten older we have developed friendships that we never thought we could have in our teen years. You are a prime example of that given your extensive friend list, including many OTHS classmates.