I would love to use my memory for something more useful, but alas...

I had a chat with my friend Jenn today, in response to her comment on a recent post. It went like this.

me: also, would you like me to tell you my entire high school schedule from freshman through senior years?

because i can.

Jennifer: haha

no thanks

i would be interested in reading a blog post about it, though...maybe including the good and the bad of each class

and let me know which ones i was in, too. thanks

The thing is, I can remember lots of things from the past, especially things from high school, which is actually unfortunate since I hated high school so very, very much.

And so for Jenn:

Freshman Year:
1- Technology class with the druggies. MASSIVE waste of time.
2- World History with possibly the dumbest honors teacher I had my entire high school career.
3- GT English with the best teacher ever, DeBord (later called DeGunn)
4- Geometry with a very good math teacher who was sometimes boring
5- Biology with Coach Haney. Jenn was in this class with me. Coach Haney hated me. He was also not a very good teacher, but he wasn't terrible either.
6. Spanish
7. Color Guard first semester, band (percussion) second semester. I rather disliked the percussion director and was pleased when he didn't return

Sophomore Year:
1- Newspaper with DeGunn. Awesome.
2- Spanish- I remember getting better grades than some of the native speakers. Yes, I'm awesome. Also, I can spell. There was a set of twins in my class. I could never keep them straight.
3- GT English with DeGunn
4- Algebra II with the same teacher as the year before
5- World History with Coach Anderson. Coach Anderson hated me. This was the class with the kid who took me on a date as BET. Still not over that. (Hello nearly ten-year grudge).
6- Chemistry. Jenn was in this one with me. It was my favorites science that I took in high school, but I wouldn't have touched the college-level class with a ten-foot pole.
7- Color Guard first semester, band the second

Junior Year
1- Spanish first semester, Econ the second- When I had the first period class one of the twins was in that class. Then, second semester when I had Spanish last, the other twin was in that class. I also worked with one of them that year. I still don't know which one. Econ was, hands down, the best "regular class" I took in high school.
2- U.S. History- With Jenn. We spent many a day talking about our BYU applications.
3- GT English with DeGunn
4- Speech (as in giving speeches) first semester, Business Law second semester. I survived these classes only because of my friend, Fermin. He was (and still is) awesome.
5- Newspaper with DeGunn
6- Pre-Calculus- This was an interesting class because even though I had it with my "regular" group of friends, I hardly worked with them. Usually I worked with three boys of different races, and we exchanged racial slurs as we worked through problems together. It was a good time. My favorite was to ask Phong if he ate dog for dinner the night before.
7- Color Guard first semester, Spanish the second

Senior Year
We went to block schedule that year.
1a- Spanish
2a- English (far easier than my previous three years with DeGunn, but the teacher was also far inferior). Jenn was with me in this one.
3a- Physics- I never would have survived this class without my friend, James. Unfortunately, he skipped school a lot that year.
4a- AP Bio. What a joke! We had piggy-back ride races and played "the color game." Jenn was with me in this one.
1b- Teacher's Aide for DeGunn first semester, Health with freshman second semester. I usually found a way to leave class and go back to DeGunn's room to work on something.
2b- Newspaper with DeGunn. Jenn had yearbook at the same time. Sometimes I hung out with her while she developed film.
3b- Calculus. I wanted to die. Every, single day. Then I got a 3 on the AP test, and it was all worth it. Jenn was in this one, too.
4b- Psychology first semester, government second. Ms. Bourgeois taught both, and she was awesome. I was very sad to hear that she passed away a few years ago. Jenn joined me during the second semester. (Um, were you also there first semester? Because I'm pretty sure you had Color Guard then).