Facts about my youth that you may not have guessed:
1. In grade 8, I won the Home Ec award. (Okay, I guess it's less surprising here because I rave about my blender and tell you about the food I cook and the sewing I'm planning, but I have a reputation in certain circles that I'm "not domestic," and that it's a good thing that Chris married me so that I don't starve to death.)
1a. In the girls' dorm at my church camp, I taught countless girls how to use an iron. There were several who would approach me if they needed something fragile ironed.
2. I had one of the highest grades in my Grade 10 Phys Ed class. I was really, really good at gym, by the end. (I wasn't as good at gym in grade 9.)
3. I took both university-level Calculus and Physics as electives (the Arts advisor recommended that I not take those courses, and just confine myself to Math 101 and geology, because they had the reputation of being "easy classes" -- sorry, Matt -- but I really wanted to take Calculus and Physics). (I may have also gotten a letter from the Physics Department Head, asking if I'd switch majors, but all the 109 students that did well got that letter. But I still have it.)
4. I was a Girl Guide for much longer than it was cool to be a Girl Guide. Like, until I was 18. I went all the way to Rangers, but quit when the only option you had was to lead your own group. By that time, I'd started University and was so very done with Guiding.
5. I own a ridiculous amount of camping gear. I've had my own camp stove since I was 14. I have a tub of camping dishes and anything else I'd need to cook while camping.
6. I purposely didn't apply for my high school's advanced program when I was in Grade 9, because my sister told me not to bother. A teacher nominated me, however, and I ended up in it anyway. (That's what set me on the grad school path.)
7. I taught computers to little kids at my elementary school from grades 6 to 8. (Have I mentioned this before? I can't remember.) My school had a program where the kids introduced the other kids to the Macintosh computers. One of the perks was that I got to stay inside during recess, to supervise the computer room, and there was nothing I hated more than recess.
8. I used to nap during grade 12 Social Studies. But I also won the Grade 12 Social Studies award. (Janny will take credit for that award, because she was taking a 200-level Canadian History course at the time, and she'd study by teaching it to me. I'd read her textbooks for fun. As a result, I ended up teaching the rest of the class.)
9. All through high school, I was heavily involved in a choir known for its choreography. In grade 12, people recognised me as "that girl who does the really big choreography in the front row."
10. I did surprisingly well in Grade 9 Electronics, and did an extra-credit home wiring project. Then, I helped my Dad wire the basement.
11. In grade 10, when required to pick an independent study project for my advanced program, I picked "canoeing." I studied the canoe for a year.
3 comments:
I won the grade 8 home ec award at my school, too!
So, what you're trying to say is that you're smart and capable, huh? :P Just teasing Maryanne. Oh, and of course geology does have a reputation for being easy, "rocks for jocks". Funny though, how the class size in my Mineralogy classes (prerequisites for every other class) shrunk from 32 to 16.
I also did #8- slept through social studies class, didn't pay attention, and read the atlas for fun during class- except I would wake up for and whup everyone else in the debates. I then went on to win the social studies award, which also included money. :)
I never studied canoes though.
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