What were you like in high school?

by Aztec 46 Replies latest jw friends

  • Skeptic
    Skeptic
    I was an orchestra geek. I played violin and took all the math classes I could. Because I was still a dub I wasn't allowed to participate in sports or anything fun so I studied and got mostly A's. Yes, I was a dork!

    k, Aztec, you are making me drool. You are artistic, have plenty of brains, are gorgeous and are great at math? (I have this thing about math.) You sound like quite a catch. Wanna run off with me?

    I loved math and science and took all of those courses I could. I sucked at sports, art, shop and music. I took as many as the advanced courses I could cause I wanted the mental stimulation they provided. We took a province wide math test and I was ranked 17th from the top in the province of Manitoba.

    I hunger for knowledge. I was the geek who did extra science experiments simply because I wanted to. I was the teacher's pet for math and science because I thought in the same weird way he did. When the class wanted a break, they asked me to distract him with off the topic questions. I did. I think the teacher was on to me, but everyone had a good time. I was also the geography teacher's pet. He teased me in front of the class mercilessly, but all in good fun.

    In Grade 9, our math teacher had all advanced students, knew how to motivate us and was demanding as hell. In Grade 9, we learned Grade 9, 10, and half of Grade 11 math all at the advanced level. Hence, for Grade 10 and half of Grade 11, the math teachers did not know what to do with me. We decided I could read books in class and just take the tests, as long as I did not distrub anyone.

    One time in Grade 10, I kept asking what the 5th Dimension was, and the teacher decided I was dispruting the class. I got sent into the hallway. The teacher's pet finally got punished by the teacher. The entire class erupted into applause.

    My course load was heavy, three hours of homework a night. I took typing to have one class to slack off in. Typing turned out to be one of the most useful. I spent all of my money making weird electronics projects, and drove my parents nuts with them.

    My biology teacher to this day thinks I am nuts. He always thought I was a little off, and a Saturday of flying gas-powered model airplanes completely convinced him. I warned him that my plane had been damaged, repaired and not tested, but he insisted on flying it anyway. Hey, how did I know the damned plane would attack him? He jumped out of the way just before the plane ploughed into the ground right where he and his son were standing. When the initial shock died down, I almost died of laughter. He avoided me after that.

    I was too shy to date much, but somehow went steady with one of the most beautiful and popular girls in school for about two years. I know what I saw in her, still don't know what she saw in me.

    Richard, a dork who loved high school

    Edited by - Skeptic on 25 January 2003 23:31:30

  • zev
    zev

    mostly, HIGH.

    did i mention i grew up in the cult?

  • liquidsky
    liquidsky

    "I was a skaterpunk theater/art class nerd girl. "

    joannadandy,

    ME TOO!

  • Mary
    Mary

    I was a loser! Overweight, JW, low self-esteem..........what a great combination to have as a teenager! Never kissed a boy till I was 16, had absolutely no clue as to how to handle a relationship with a guy........when I was 17 I lost a lot of weight, lightened my hair, wore make up and suddenly everyone wanted to be my friend or to date me. Very strange.......I couldn't handle all the attention and screwed up my relationship with the one guy I truly ever loved..............what a screwball I was!

  • Shakita
    Shakita

    In the beginning of High School, many years ago, I took academic classes and was part of the school drill team. But, when I changed my major to business, I had to quit the extra curricular activites and worked during and after school in the secretarial office program at school. I met Mr. Shakita in the summer of the 10th grade of High School. We dated on and off through school and in the senior year of high school we were sort of glued at the hip. Have been ever since!

    Mrs. Shakita

  • onacruse
    onacruse

    hehe, I was such a dork that I was actually popular for being such a dork! Late 60s, plenty of "rebellion" in the air, upper middle class trendy school...the perfect combination. Was even invited to be treasurer of the Student Apathy Group (S.A.G., and yes, this was for real). I was totally into math and science, didn't do any sports but what was required, never did any extracurricular activities, never went to a single school function (not even my graduation), was a regular pioneer during my senior year. In other words, a complete socially dis-integrated JW boy, with starry-eyed notions of going to Bethel and living the rest of my life there.

    But I'm all right now! LOLOL

    Craig

  • jurs
    jurs

    In High school I wore a ton of makeup!!!! My hair was huge, I probably used a can of hairspray a week!!! It was the 80"s !!!!! I rarely studied, Its amazing I graduated. I struggled with math and didn't try very hard in any subject because I just thought I was dumb. I was kindof popular ( i hung out with the right crowd ) . EVERYONE partied where I went to high school. I started going to bars at 15 and I met a guy that was going to college in my hometown. We dated the rest of my highschool years and then some. It was really a shame. I spent all my time with him and acted like a little old married lady. I even finagled him to buy me a diamond ring and we were engaged. I had alot of fun in highschool before I got into a serious relationship. Then it was pretty boring.

    jurs

  • orangefatcat
    orangefatcat

    Bfore being a JW, I was a bad kid, mostly miserstood, as my mum was barely 16 when she had me and my dad was 20 mean and violent who drank like a fish.and so it was no kind of enviroment for a sprout for me. When I strated school at age 4 I was not liked and but wanted to be liked, I was nasty but didn't understand why I had no friends. Teachers had little time for me. Many said I was incorragiable and was distruptive to the rest of the class, I lied, I stole and I liked it, because no one wanted to be my friend. My father wanted to punch the teachers out. My mother wanted to do the best she could for 16yrs old but she had girl friends who were more important to her than me. Me father yelled and screamed all the time and drank more and more. He use to drive a huge dump trunk and at the end of the day when he got home drunk my mom had to go out to the truck as he was so plastered and out cold she had to drag him in the house and some times a male nieghbour would help her bring him in. Then he would come to and and then the fighting would begin and he would smash things all over the place and destroy my moms pretty things, This went on for years and night after night the doctor would come to our home to give my father a B12 injection and somethings to calm him down. This went on for years and years until I was ready to explude in school. One teacher in grade four take to my mother and my mom explained to her the situation in our home and that Terry was in dire need of help. She asked my mom could she take me under her wing and see what she could do. It was about a year later that my parents began studying with the witnesses, Well it was my father started. that was around october 1963, he was trying to stop drinking, he had hepitatis, and yellow jaundice badly, and his whole body was slowing dying. The doctors told him stop drinking or you will die within six months or a yr maxiumum. During all these years of instanity I spent much time at my dear grandma's house, she helped me have a stronger faith in the faith in which I was raised the Anglican and so I was happy to go with her week after to week to get some peace in my heart. She brought my happiness in my life. From an early childhood she was always there for me. My father knew his own father and mother were JW's and my mothers father was a JW who had since died in the year in which i was born 1951. Anyway my dad and mom went to visit to see his father and mother in PortPerry in late 1963 and I guess that was it my father said this is it, I have decided we are going to become JW's.

    Never giving me an opportunity on my own my father approached my grandma and told her that Terry will not be an Anglican. She will become a Jehovah's Witness and if when she gets older she wants to change back she has that choice to return to the Anglican Church. Funny thing I never remember my father telling me that after we were told we were going to be JW's and that was it and if we didn't like it tnen when if we don't like it its too bad thats the rules and if you don't like that rules then get out. I was all of 12 yrs old. Gee what choice did I have. I thought anythinng would be better than have him a an alcholic father and a stark ravening manic. And a mother who alway returned to him every time no matter what yes these were my happy golden school day I remeber....

    Love Orangefatcat.

  • Ravyn
    Ravyn

    I was a knock-out but didn't know it, coz I was a JW. I found out yrs later that some of the cutest boys were afraid to ask me out. I was totally in love with my 7th grade science teacher and I had a very cute single 8th grade Math teacher too, so after 2 or 3 yrs out of HS I went back to visit my old JHS teachers and the 8th grade Math teacher asked me out! About 15 yrs later, I went to the same school on a visitors day with my nephew and the 7th grade Science teacher saw me walking down the hall and literally ran to meet me and swept me off my feet in a bear hug and told me I still looked like I was 14! I fell in love with the man all over again! Then I met his wife and son. And I liked them too. Made me feel good about all that HS crap and insecurities I had, to think that I could have had the teachers if I wanted....:: wicked laugh :: forget the students!

    When I left the JWs, inside of 6 months I met a wonderful man, married him a year later, and he thinks all JW males must be blind and stupid.

    (remember that pic of the women who tempted the angels to come down and become demons in the Live Forever book? I was the one in the front foreground....had a friend at Bethel who was in the art dept...guess I could tempt angels, but not JW males.....)

    Ravyn

  • roybatty
    roybatty

    Good topic!

    I was pretty much "clean cut" (because of the JW thing) but had my share of wild times. I was good at sports and did play as much as my parents would allow (was always a fight). My god it still irritates me to this day when I think about not being allowed by them to join certain sports or go to a certain dance! Arrrr!!

    Where you parked in the high school parking lot was a good indication of who you hung out with. There was the "gear heads" in one area, the "4X4 monster truck" guys in another, the "bad boys" with the low riders in an other area, the "jocks & preps" in another are with there expensive cars and the "nerds" who drove their parents car. lol....just thinking about the red BMW I drove to school and the '75 Grand Marquie (sp?) my girlfriend drove. Geez, high school was so shallow.

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