While I should really be using my time more wisely and getting ready to go out of town, I think I'll sit and blog for a minute. Why start a new habit now?
I got my haircut tonight and on my way there I noticed a sign for "Carver Park." I thought that it must be close to the elementary school that I went to growing up so on my way home, I checked it out.
So interesting how memories come flooding back. Granted, as I've mentioned before, I have a tendency to remember a lot of things--too bad it's not more useful info that I can retain so well! Doug says I should go on Jeopardy, but I think i'd only excel in the high school level competition...
I found the school just behind the park and was amazed at how close it was to what I remember. Sometimes I wonder if I remember things in an altered sense because I was no more than 10 when we lived here (i.e. are things really smaller and I remember them being so vast?; etc.). The actual school building was smaller than my memory, but the playground and fields were as big if not bigger than I remembered. I decided to park my car and do a quick walk around the building and seeing things just brought back so many specific experiences. I remembered playing jacks with a pal on a certain spot. I remembered how competitive I was during the end-of-the-year field day races. The tetherball poles. Jumping rope on the opposite side of the playground ("Miss Susie had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell,..."). The tornado sirens going off. Watching the Blue Angels and one of the space shuttles go overhead. Our class picture on the blacktop with Pikes Peak behind us. My teachers' names (2nd: Mrs. Frech, 3rd: Mrs. Breen, 4th: Mrs. Attebury). Whacking a kid with my metal "Disco Fever" lunchbox for "cutting" when I was supposed to be line leader. There was a lot of new/modern playground equipment, but I was surprised at how much of the old stuff (swing sets, a wobbly beam and a metal slide--Youch!) remained.
I actually remember a lot of these kids' names! Why??!! Can you find me?
Anyway, it's been fun and interesting living here again and seeing things from my past. As I walked around the playground it was hard for me to believe that it's been a lifetime ago that I was a student at G.W. Carver Elementary School! I was a 2nd grader there 25 years ago. Wow.
5 comments:
how fun! i want to do that!! with my terrible memory, i can totally remember everything you saw and described. (where is longfellow?)
Are you on the top, third from the left? It's hard to see faces but I'm guessing that you would have been one of the taller kids.
I concur with Joni.
I agree with Joni and Kellie - top, 3rd in?? If that is you I had the same hair cut as you back then!! :) Fun to reminisce - I'd love to visit Susan B. Anthony (one of the 3 elementary schools that I went to, but the fondest memories:))
you guys are so smart! that is indeed moi 3rd from the left. i think i'm wearing a fuschia and white striped shirt with red shorts...always the fashion maven. (i'm not sure why some pics will enlarge and some won't??)
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