Friday Five
Sep. 13th, 2002 06:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
msluluOkay, My turn.
1. What was/is your favorite subject in school? Why?
I actually discovered Sociology in High School with a couple of classes that snuck into the "Home Economics" category, on male/female and family interactions. I loved them. It wasn't until I took Intro to Sociology in college years later that I realized what subject heading they should have been under. All those years of thinking I was going to be an English major, when what I really loved was Sociology.
2. Who was your favorite teacher? Why?
Sue Thomas, Honors American Literature, Junior Year. She was actually the teacher of the first class I had my first year back in a stateside school. She was a beatnik, grew up on and around Indian reservations, very cool, very fun, had a great sense of humor and encouraged my creativity.
3. What is your favorite memory of school?
First day of school in Oslo, freshman year. I had met Melissa Ford a few days earlier, so I had someone to sit with on the bus. Then, when the busses were late coming to pick us up after school, she and Christine Manolis and I walked to the local ice cream shop, had wonderful Norwegian soft serve cones, coated in a chocolate powder, then we took the Trykk (light rail) home. Christine and Melissa became my first true friends.
4. What was your favorite recess game?
I hated recess. I was that kid curled up against a tree or the fence, reading a book, avoiding the other kids. Oh, and for all you Dodge Ball fanatics out there, its a cruel, evil, sadistic game and is responsible for years of emotional scarring!
5. What did you hate most about school?
The other kids (grade school through jr high). I actually like the whole going to class, learning aspect. But no kid should have to go through that sort of torment and mental torture at the hands of their peers.
1. What was/is your favorite subject in school? Why?
I actually discovered Sociology in High School with a couple of classes that snuck into the "Home Economics" category, on male/female and family interactions. I loved them. It wasn't until I took Intro to Sociology in college years later that I realized what subject heading they should have been under. All those years of thinking I was going to be an English major, when what I really loved was Sociology.
2. Who was your favorite teacher? Why?
Sue Thomas, Honors American Literature, Junior Year. She was actually the teacher of the first class I had my first year back in a stateside school. She was a beatnik, grew up on and around Indian reservations, very cool, very fun, had a great sense of humor and encouraged my creativity.
3. What is your favorite memory of school?
First day of school in Oslo, freshman year. I had met Melissa Ford a few days earlier, so I had someone to sit with on the bus. Then, when the busses were late coming to pick us up after school, she and Christine Manolis and I walked to the local ice cream shop, had wonderful Norwegian soft serve cones, coated in a chocolate powder, then we took the Trykk (light rail) home. Christine and Melissa became my first true friends.
4. What was your favorite recess game?
I hated recess. I was that kid curled up against a tree or the fence, reading a book, avoiding the other kids. Oh, and for all you Dodge Ball fanatics out there, its a cruel, evil, sadistic game and is responsible for years of emotional scarring!
5. What did you hate most about school?
The other kids (grade school through jr high). I actually like the whole going to class, learning aspect. But no kid should have to go through that sort of torment and mental torture at the hands of their peers.
