Comments on: remembering http://www.penguingirl.com/2006/01/27/remembering/ books. fibre. food. travel. words. Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:25:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Miriam http://www.penguingirl.com/2006/01/27/remembering/comment-page-1/#comment-921 Miriam Mon, 30 Jan 2006 21:36:20 +0000 http://www.penguingirl.com/2006/01/27/remembering/#comment-921 That means I was in 6th grade? (I knew it was either 5th or 6th.) But no groaning. I refuse to be old. I figure I'm still about 23. (Time stopped the very next year before I reached my birthday, when I made Pesach for the first time. Pesky Nissan birthday got lost in the pre-Pesach shuffle.) As I commented on Chayyei Sarah: In elementary school. I went to IMT (Independent Motor Training: extra gym practice for those of us who had problems with eye-hand coordination. My excuse was a wandering eye and seeing double.) as usual, and found the Gym teacher sitting in her office with the radio on, head down on her desk, crying. She explained why. There was no IMT that day. I didn't tell anyone else. The teachers had a conference over lunch on whether to/how to tell and told the rest of the students in the afternoon. That means I was in 6th grade? (I knew it was either 5th or 6th.) But no groaning. I refuse to be old. I figure I’m still about 23. (Time stopped the very next year before I reached my birthday, when I made Pesach for the first time. Pesky Nissan birthday got lost in the pre-Pesach shuffle.)

As I commented on Chayyei Sarah: In elementary school. I went to IMT (Independent Motor Training: extra gym practice for those of us who had problems with eye-hand coordination. My excuse was a wandering eye and seeing double.) as usual, and found the Gym teacher sitting in her office with the radio on, head down on her desk, crying. She explained why. There was no IMT that day. I didn’t tell anyone else. The teachers had a conference over lunch on whether to/how to tell and told the rest of the students in the afternoon.

]]> By: shanna http://www.penguingirl.com/2006/01/27/remembering/comment-page-1/#comment-920 shanna Fri, 27 Jan 2006 18:39:09 +0000 http://www.penguingirl.com/2006/01/27/remembering/#comment-920 I was in first grade, so no groans here... (I should write my own Challenger post, shouldn't I?) I was in first grade, so no groans here…

(I should write my own Challenger post, shouldn’t I?)

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