Weekly Wrap-up - Back To School
I enjoy the questions on Weekly Wrap-up far more than Friday Five - they are a lot more intelligent. Thanks Mariann!
So run
Right
Right back to school
Check it
Look back I sift through all the cliques
Roaming' the halls all year, making me sick
While everyone's out tryin to make the cut
What?
And when you think you know me right I switch it up
Behind the walls smokin' cigarettes and sippin' vodka
hop a fence and catch a cab, aint no one can stop us
Give me a break about some other mess
What were you?
Act like it's everything you got
Push back the square
Now that you need her but you don't
So there you go
Cause back in school
We are the leaders of it all
Stop that, quit! - All that, quit!
Who ruined it? You did! Now grab a notebook and a pen
Start taking notes, I'm being everyone who's on the top
You think we're on the same page - but, oh we're not!
I'll be the man, watch your backpacks, pens and pencils
Just like he now flippin it, why you just keep it simple? You just can't go wrong rocking' the clothes
Coppin' the stance
'Cause really is everything that you got!
Push back the square
Now that you need her but you don't
So there you go!
Cause back in school
We are the leaders of it all
So
Transpose
Or stop your lies
It's what you do
Transpose
Or stop your lies
So run
So why don't you run, so why don't you run
So why don't you run back to school
So why don't you run, so why don't you run
All you are - Now I'm on the next page
All you are - It's time to close the book up
All you are - I'm on the next page
All you are - Close the book up now
1. What is your earliest memory of going back to school? Describe the feelings you experienced and, if you can remember, something that happened that day.
I remember my first day of Montessori when I was 3 years old and screaming for my mom.
2. Who was your first teacher? What do you remember about him/her?
I got my finger slammed in the classroom door in grade 1, and the class was making candy that day and I clearly remember Mrs. Bell telling me that I wouldn't get candy unless I stopped crying. But then I remember her dressing up as a witch on Halloween and getting one of her witch claws caught in the film projector, followed by her making a mad dash for the aloe plant. :mischievious
3. Did you enjoy the first day of school as a child? Why or why not? Did you enjoy the first day of school as a teenager? Why or why not? If these feelings changed from childhood to teenage years, what happened to change them?
I enjoyed the fresh start of the first day of school. Later on, I enjoyed seeing my friends again, but I never liked school - not then, and not now. That's why I'm not in grad school. There were some rituals though - Mom took a picture of me standing on the driveway every year. Here's the one from my final year of high school. Please try to ignore my pipe cleaner legs.
4. What was the most exciting thing about starting school again? What was the most frustrating? Why?
I hated the thought of being back in the school grind for the next 10 months, and having homework and assignments of course.
5. If you have children in school now, how do you mark the occasion of the first day of school? If you don't have children, how did your family deal with the first day of school? What was the best part of the first day?
See the bit about the photo. The best part of the first day was definitely no homework, so those "getting to know me" assignments were always annoying, no matter how easy they were!