In September of 1964 I entered school, I was younger than my classmates by a year since most of them had birthdays in the first 3/4 of the year while mine was in the last quarter, why my parents wanted me in school early I don't know. Perhaps because by then both my brothers had been born and they were just over a year apart.
Highlights:
1964-1965
I learned how to read and began to devour the small school library
I had perfect attendance right up until the last four days of the school year and I was out because of chicken pox
I started my trip towards being a loner with a dance, some cheering and a fever that messed the memory all up
I had a best friend but I lost her to the new girl, I even had a boyfriend who gave me a ring.
1965-1966
Our house burned down the summer of 1966, so I spent most of the summer with my cousins in Trenton and came back to a new home near the end of August. The new home also meant I had to go to a new school which is one of the reasons I lost both my best friend and my boy friend to someone else. You can't maintain a good relationship if you don't see each other much or at all.
I chewed out the ends of my mitten thumbs and ended up freezing them pretty good
I saw fossils for the first time that year, one of the families I went to school with lived near a fairly large stone quarry.
1966-1967
Due to dwindling population the school in Lakehurst was closed and so were a couple of others. Myself and my classmates from the Lakehurst school began to be bused to Buckhorn as the largest population centre in the area. That is when I found out for sure my best friend had formed a friendship with another girl who had come the year I was gone and my boyfriend had a crush on someone else. On the upside I met the boy I would have a crush on for most of my pre-teen years.
The girls in my age group (there were only three of us), came home with me one night for supper but didn't stay long. They met my grandmother and got scared cause they thought she was a witch. My dad had to take them home as soon as he got home from work.
1967-1968
1968-1969
1969-1970
I do not remember many specifics of those three years. I beleive that my depression began around this time, I remember playing with my cousins but for the most part is was me and a book in a little grove I found near the back of the school grounds. By the time I graduated from junior school to intermediate school I had read all 100 or so books that were in the schools library.
