hello! today, i have been deep in thought, much like every other day. i'm getting too old! it's so weird because i just stop and think, "oh my gosh! i'm going to be 17 on my next birthday!" i was just riding my bus recalling my salad days while holding on for my life (in fear of don killing the next toby the tewwier). it seems like just yesterday i was in kindergarten. i was writing an e-mail to my sacraments teacher, who's also my algebra tutor, about how i never learned anything important in kindergarten because i went to a lousy public school. the only thing that mrs. hall ever taught us was to read (it really wasn't reading, just writing words like cat and car), which is kind of useless because i started to read when i was three. that brought back millions of memories that i probably never would have remembered...like on the first day asking why we didn't pray before snack or clare going on vacation and having this other lady come and babysit me at my house, making me ride the bus with the people who were in the cycle that i was supposed to be in, but since i got picked up at clare's house, i was in cycle d. anyways, i got to school really early because i rode this bus with a bunch of people whom i never had seen before in my life, so i got to play with the toys all by myself in the classroom for like an hour. i remember stephanie lawson, my kindergarten best friend, and how we sat next to each other on the bus until one day we were coloring with magic marker, and it leaked through onto the seat, so we got sent to the principal's office (she was also named mrs. hall). she told us that we couldn't sit together on the bus. i remember our bus driver bob. we called him baby bob, and stephanie and i made this thing up that he was this oatmeal guy. i remember driving past erin wesselschmidt's house, along with a lake and a pool. i even remember our halloween party. my mom took off work early. i dressed up as a cheerleader. we played some game with candy corn that my mother was leading. i remember that i owned a shirt that said shopasaurus rex, even though i never liked to shop back then(i've grown out of that phase!). i remember when we got to eat lunch in the cafeteria for our get ready for 1st grade day, and i brought my lunch because i hated hot dogs, and they wouldn't let me eat my bag lunch. i remember making paper flowers for a program for our parents and singing a song about stegasauruses and the "l-o-double l-y-p-o-p spells lollypop" song. i made a dinosaur shirt. i remember my music teacher getting married in the middle of the year, but i didn't know that back then, so i thought it was awfully odd for her to go by a different name. i remember getting off of the bus in the afternoon at stephanie's stop about 2 minute's from clare's and then walking home because i wanted to see what it was like. i had such a fun time in kindergarten. too bad that i never learned anything because then it would have been great.
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