Another school semester will soon begin. If you’re in school, are you looking forward to starting classes? If you’re out of school, what do you miss about it — or are you glad those days are over?
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It has been 3 years since I retired… Time has flown by quickly… minutes to hours… hours to days… and now days to years…
Yes… I miss school… I spent 12 years of just attending school like any other kid…
loving every minute of it…
School was fun to me…
cursive writing…
I loved making those beautiful curved letters…
reading… 
not easy for me that first year… had no pre-school or kindergarten at that time… but, by the next year… I was learning quickly and asked to help other kids…
math…
my torment… but, when learned… felt so proud… Hated reading problems as they were called… but, loved geometry… drawing all of those angles and shapes… using a compass… protractor and ruler… (the art in me I guess)
geography… 
learning of different countries… people… places… I would never see… a world opened to me through books and films…
history…
learning of past presidents and who formed our land… laws… the constitution… discoveries made by people… found it to be quite interesting…
english…
Loved words… never liked learning all of those names for different parts of speech… nouns… pronouns… adverbs… I did love adjectives… descriptive words… how wonderful!… letter writing was neat… punctuation could give me fits…
literature…
stories … books… heroes… characters… authors… fun!
science…
planets… rocks… experiments… equations (yuck!)… earth… formulas (another yuck!)… bugs…animals…birds… people… VERY interesting…
art… 
favorite subject for me… the smell of crayons… paints… the pencils for drawing… colored chalk dust… colored paper…clean white paper to put that first bit of color on… Loved it!
music…
singing… sometimes dance… instruments… piano playing… harmonizing… chorus… A happy feeling …
play time… 
inside and out… jump rope… kick ball… games… What’s not to like???
friendships… 
special girlfriends… some to this day!… cute boys…
teachers… 
some good… so memorable… some bad… (Very few)… what each taught and their techniques…
classrooms… 
I dreamed of my own…and how I would fix it… teacher‘s desk… seating charts… colorful pictures…bright sun coming through windows… watching first snowflakes and wondering if we would get out early…
field trips… 
visiting places I would never have gone to… seeing things I would never had seen… Hearing things I would never have heard… AWESOME!
lunch time… 
sack lunch kids… cafeteria food… cafeteria ladies… sitting talking with friends… always rushing to eat fast in 20 minutes…
bus ride… 
I was a safety patrol on the bus… badge and all… noisy kids… but, really liked our bus driver… Mr. G… and the trips on that big yellow bus… so fun sitting with friends…
snack time… 
cookies and milk… Oreos from a boy who liked me…
This was a description of “my school years“… and then I got a job in the school system… a dream come true… working with special children…
30 years later… retired… but, the descriptions of school memories are pretty much the same… work was just like a repeat of my school years… just looking on from a different perspective…
To spend my whole life in school… leaves lots of memories… and yes, 
I will always miss those days…
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… We haven’t done this in a long time… years to be exact… but, as soon as we get together it will be as if we talked every day 
… That’s what true friendship is…never-ending…faithful…loving 
… I’ve known one of the “girls” since 
and the others since 
… We are all quite different in appearance as well as our takes on life…We have each gone our separate ways…made a life with husbands, children and grandchildren…We’ve had good times and bad…We’ve all lived life as it came to us 
…Not probably our dreams 
…but, a good life…We are having a class reunion in the Fall…will be 45 years since we were the “Panthers”…our High School mascot 
… There were more popular kids…but, our 
… A pretty tight-niche group of people with ideals, compassion and heart!…The 
was being played out and many of us were effected by that … “Hippy Days” 
with our long hair, 
and hate to admit it but, drugs were coming in on the scene… We were supposed to be free-spirited… peaceful and full of love 
… Hate to tell everyone… Life is life whenever and wherever it happens!… Happiness is what you make it… Work ethics are what you make them… Friendships are kept if you make them… So that is where I am today… Not longing for by-gone days…but, happy to remember the good times and friends made… 
