High School Meme

[dizzojay]

It's been a while since I did a decent meme!

I snagged this from kattrip033.  There are massive differences between high school in the US and secondary school in the UK, so let's see how this pans out ...

Think about your SENIOR year in High School...if you can remember that long ago!! The longer ago it was, the more fun the answers will be! It doesn’t take but 5 minutes, do it!!!

Class of: 1984

1. Did you know your current love?
I knew of him.  I saw him around from time to time, but he was in a different year and had different groups of friends so we never actually acknowledged each others' existence!!

2. Class colors?
At our school everyone wore grey and burgundy

3. What kind of job?
When I left school I got a job as an office junior

4. Where did you live?
Bagshot, a village about two miles from where I live now.

5. Were you popular?
I had a decent group of friends, but I was never 'in with the in crowd'.

6. Were you in choir or band?
No

7. Ever get suspended?
No

8. If you could, would you go back?
Hell no, wild dogs couldn't drag me back to that place.

9. Still talk to the person that you went to prom with?
We didn't do proms back in those days.

10. Did you skip school?
I skipped a few lessons.  My favourrite lessons to duck out of were PE and religious education.  I was totally uninterested in both!

11. Go to all the Football games?
We're talking about Football (soccer) here.  No, I didn't know when the school team was playing and I didn't care.

12. Favorite subject?
Art, History and English Language

13. Do you still have your yearbook?
We never did yearbooks.  So far as I know, the schools still don't.

14. Did you follow your career path?
I never really had a career path.  I wanted to do something with art but the school careers officer well and truly put the mockers on that (actually he laughed in my face).  I guess I was too young and not driven enough, so that died a death.  I just guessed that because I was moderately intelligent and could type, read, write and do sums, that I'd end up in an office job.  And I did!

15. Do you still have your high school ring?
Never had one, we didn't do anything like that

16. Who was your favorite teacher?
I had a great art teacher called Mr Shaw.  Anything he liked was always 'ace'.  He could see that I really was dedicated to learning and progressing in art lessons and really took me under his wing.

17. What was your favorite style?
I was an 80's teenager.  Big hair, bright colours, ra-ra skirts, polka dots, batwing sleeves... tragic!

18. Favorite Shoes?
Pixie boots

19. Favorite food?
I was a very finicky eater back in the day, so it would have been something really unadventurous like sausage and chips.

20. Favorite band?
Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Queen, Toyah, Adam Ant... like I said, child of the 80's :)

21. High school hairstyle?
My hair went beserk during puberty and I had a huge mop of tight curls

22. What cologne / perfume?
None, then as now I hate perfume.  I find it overpowering and it actually makes me feel headachey and nauseous, so I tended to stick to light bodysprays Like Impulse, and still do.

23. How old when you graduated?
16

24. What high school did you attend?
Collingwood Secondary School

25. Mascot
Didn't have one

Comments

[yeuxdebleu.livejournal.com]

Think about your SENIOR year in High School...if you can remember that long ago!! The longer ago it was, the more fun the answers will be! It doesn’t take but 5 minutes, do it!!!

Class of: 1957

1. Did you know your current love?

Nope

2. Class colors?

Red & white

3. What kind of job?

I went from high school directly to college. But I worked part time as a long distance telephone operator in high school and college.

4. Where did you live?

Hiram, Ohio during high school and college then I moved to New York City.

5. Were you popular?

I guess so. I had a lot of friends and participated in many social groups.

6. Were you in choir or band?

Yes, choir.

7. Ever get suspended?

No

8. If you could, would you go back?

No. I liked college much better.

9. Still talk to the person that you went to prom with?

No, he died two years ago..

10. Did you skip school?

Never. I loved school.

11. Go to all the Football games?

Nope. My mother went to same high school I did and a boy was killed playing (American) football so the school quit having a team. In college I was working for the phone company on the weekends when football games were played. I don't recall anyone playing soccer (your football) in those days.

12. Favorite subject?

English, history, Latin and of course, music. I went on to major in music in college then worked for many years in the record business.

13. Do you still have your yearbook?

Yes..

14. Did you follow your career path?

I knew I wanted to do something related to music, and I did.

15. Do you still have your high school ring?

Yes, and my college sorority pin, too.

16. Who was your favorite teacher?

Dr. Augustus Brunnell, for English and Latin. He was a retired college professor and always treated us as full-blown adults. My high school was in a college town and we had several retired college professors for teachers in high sbhool.

17. What was your favorite style?

I don't really remember other than I wore what all the other girls were wearing.

18. Favorite Shoes?

My white suede oxfords, called white bucks here in the US.

19. Favorite food?

I loved everything except liver. Ughh! Still don't like it or any other organ meats
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20. Favorite band?

I didn't have one. I was only interested in classical music.

21. High school hairstyle?

Long, mostly in a pony tail.

22. What cologne / perfume?

I don't recall that I had a favorite.

23. How old when you graduated?

18, a week before graduation.

24. What high school did you attend?

Hiram High School in Hiram, Ohio

25. Mascot

Husky dog. Our basketball team was called the Huskies.

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

It's great that you got to follow your chosen career path in Music. It fascinates me that the American schools have mascots and class colours, and give out yearbooks, rings and pins and all sorts of stuff. We do nothing like that in the UK. I don't have a single keepsake from school — mind you, not that I really want to be reminded of it to be honest!

[yeuxdebleu.livejournal.com]

It really surprises me that schools and colleges in the UK haven't picked up on any of these traditions that are such stalwarts of American schools. It seems really strange to me since so many other things have crossed back and forth across the pond.

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

I think its because there's a different school culture in he UK.

This is a sweeping generalisation, and I'm sure there are some schools which are exceptions, but in my experience kids in the UK have no sense of belonging to their school; they don't have pride in their school or feel any attachment to it. Its just somewhere they go because the law says they have to, or because they know it's something they have to do if they want to make a success of their life. That was certainly my outlook; I didn't care about supporting my school in any way. I got what I needed from it and then walked away without ceremony and without ever looking back.

[yeuxdebleu.livejournal.com]

The private schools in England, like Eton, are very proud of their school, aren't they? At least in sports they seem to be. In the US, high school reunions are always well attended and there is definitely a sense of pride in one's school. There are, of course, some that don't care a whit about it and as you said, attended school only because the law required it.

[casey28.livejournal.com]

Is 16 the average age for graduating high school in your country? Here it’s 18. But I was a little older when I graduated, because I missed too many classes.

[metallidean-grl.livejournal.com]

UGH! High school was miserable for me. Sounds like it kinda was for you as well. I love the big 80s hair. Can't help but laugh when I see some pictures of some of the poofs back then. Too funny.

Interesting questions. Have to try them myself.