Favorite school day memories ? Who Knew? - Loveahappyending

Greetings from sunny Avon Park, Florida!? While other parts of the world are enjoying cooler weather, leaves changing color, and cozying up in sweaters and boots, it?s still almost 90 degrees every day!? I?m ready for summer to be over and fall to get here!? So, this month, I asked my friends at LAHE about their favorite school day memories.

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Jessica Strassner ? I have always loved reading and writing, even back when I was a little kid.? I remember once, maybe in 5^th grade, we were given an assignment where we had to write a *short* story using a certain number of our spelling words or something.? I went home and wrote and wrote and wrote.? The next day, the teacher asked some of us to read our stories aloud.? I couldn?t wait to share mine.? All nine pages of it!? I kept going and going and going? The other kids probably thought I was nuts, but the teacher was kind enough to let me finish.

In high school, I took as many creative writing and English classes as I could. ?I also took a study hall period for two semesters and assisted the teachers in the English department.? Again, I received an assignment to write a short story and I overdid it, turning in what I basically told my teacher was the first chapter to a novel that I?d write some day.

Of course, that novel morphed and changed over the years, and kind of grew up along with me, but it was ?Here We Go.?

Nicky Wells ? My favourite school memory goes all the way back to primary school. I remember the smell of the classroom, the feel of the wooden top of my desk (those were the days), and the pictures on the classroom wall. I had a brand new satchel full of colourful pencil and an old-fashioned style mini blackboard (albeit plastic) with chalk for writing on. I adored being given a bunch of books, including my first reading book (called a Fibel). The smell of the fresh print instilled a love for books in me that I carry to this day, surprise!

Primary school was fun. I?d rather not talk about secondary school, LOL. Shall we say I was too successful a student to hang with the in-crowd, and too absorbed in my own little reading dreamworld to hang with the out-and-out-geeks! Sixth form was better again, and learning became fun at that point. Favourite subject? English!!!

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Lauren Howell ? I guess it makes sense that art and time at the library was my favorite subject! ?I use to go to the library for every study hall too. ?My most?inspiring?teacher was an English professor I had in college. ?I always say she was the reason I stayed four years instead of four, because I took most of her classes!! ?She was amazing and always encouraged me to write and to never compare myself to others. ?Sadly she passed away two years after I graduated. ?One of my other professors at the same school was also very inspiring. ?When I was a junior, I mentioned something about him having to read all my papers and he was shocked that I?d said it. ?He assured me I could write and that he always enjoyed reading my papers. ?That was a real inspiration and I held him in high esteem, so, it really meant a lot! ?I was bullied a lot, so I wasn?t a fan of school until I reached college. ?I loved it and was such a social butterfly and would often hold packed movie nights in my room, making sure to invite all the freshman as well! ?It was completely different than how I?d been in school previous to that. ?I was also very much the class clown?.big surprise there!

Sheryl Browne ? Ooh, my claim to fame!? Arty by nature, I attended Moseley Road Art School, alongside Birmingham?s very own UB40! The school closed down, sadly, the year I left.? No, I didn?t do it!

Anyone who knows me would never believe it, but I was a bit of wallflower as a youngster (I grew ? what can I say? Am now the life and soul of the party. Is why the guests leave early).? So, it came as a complete shock ? to my primary school teacher, as well as to me ? when I was considered talented enough to take the entrance exam to art school. I was totally rubbish at maths but good at art and English. So good, apparently, that my English teacher at Moseley Art ? who famously said he never marked higher than 19/20 ? marked my essay 21+.? When he then went around the class asking us to comment on our essays, I just sat there, cheeks glowing like a set of brake lights, too timid to point out his mistake.? I?ll never forget the smile on his face when I did manage to speak up.? Maybe he was trying to encourage me out of my shell. Soooo? Mr Tenby, you?re to blame!

Sue Johnson ? My favourite school memories are of the teacher I had when I was about seven or eight?who encouraged me to write stories.

She had a wonderful collection of pictures and postcards for us to work from and, for me, they used to generate stories that went on for miles. She?d allow me to carry on while the other kids did artwork or played in the home corner.?It made up for the misery I used to suffer in maths lessons! I was also quite shy, so playtimes used to be difficult.

When I was older, my favourite lessons were English, History and French and I used to score at least 90% in most tests. I once got into trouble following a maths test. One of the questions was about filling a bath with a hole in it and wanting to know how much water would be left in half an hour later. My reply was ?I?d plug the hole before trying to fill the bath.? I only just avoided a detention!

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