What Is Your Favorite School Memory?

I Loved high school. My most favorite memories were just the times I spent with my friends, either sitting on the grass and dividing our lunches up among each other, or going to the football games and getting a hot chocolate that was so hot you couldn't even drink it until after the game ended without burning your tongue off! Most of those girls I spent my time with are still my friends today. Looking back my high school memories are very happy ones.

My 1st grade teacher, Mrs. Smith, was the most compassionate woman I ever met. When I was in the 3rd grade, she died of cancer at a young age. We had a memorial for her at school. The entire school released balloons into the sky in her honor. We were also served apples that were cut in half horizontally to reveal the star shape that the seeds make when an apple is cut that way - something she taught all of the first grade students in her class. At my high school graduation, her widowed husband surprised me by attending. He approached me and said, in tears, "Do you remember me?" I was overwhelmed. I was no longer attending the private school any longer and was attending a high school about 20 miles away from my elementary school. He said he tracked down all of her students and made sure that he attended all of their graduations, because he knew that Mrs. Smith would have done it and he wanted to live that dream for her. It was totally unexpected and made my graduation SO special.

I have a lot of great memories from all through out school, but I'd have to say my favorite memory was the day I made my first best friend, Joshua. It was in third grade and some other kids had been teasing me at P.E. so I sat by myself away from them. Joshua sat beside me and held my hand. I pulled away and ran across the playground but he chased me all around the playground. Finally, I stopped running by the swings, and he caught up to me, sat on a swing and said "You're my best friend now, I love you." And from that day, we were inseparable. Sadly, we lost him in 2001 in an accident, but I will never forget that day.

My favorite memory is playing on the playground with friends. This was the best part of the day!

recess time just outside with my friends hanging out

I grew up in Egypt and went to the Franciscan sisters school, which had a convent on the premises. One 4th grade math test was abysmal for the majority of the class. I had the brilliant idea to go the convent, "borrow" the red-eyed mouse that belonged to sweet retired Sister Antonia, bring it back to the classroom, put it in the teacher's desk where our test results were, and believe that the mouse would eat the evidence. Well, the mouse did not. We heard that Sister Antonia was heart-broken at the loss of her mouse. I took the mouse back to her, apologized profusely, and she forgave me. That got me ready for the harsh punishment that awaited me from Mother Superior.

One of my greatest school memories is in my sophmore year. It was Short Story class and we were asked to write a play and act it out. My cousin, best friend, and I decdied to make our version of the baseball game. Now realize my props were my mom's apron, and we couldn't obtain peanuts in time so we used carob chips. So at the end of the play our class was laughing so hard that I forgot my lines, and the part of passing out peanuts and popcorn, I reached into my apron, pulled out the carob chips and said "get your red hot carrot chips", and we all lost it. We actually won for best play and most creativity...

My most cherished memory was my mom packing my lunchbox in the winter with a thermos of warm tea. The other kids thought I was a little odd...but growing up in cold, windy Chicago, it was wonderful to have a warm cup of tea with my lunch. It is still my most vivid, favorite memory or school days and of things my mom did for me.

My junior high had school uniform like typical in Japan. School year starts in Apr there, and it is still cold in my hometown. I had my coat on and left home to go to school on the first day. I realized that I forgot to have skirt on underneath my coat. I was so releaved that I realized it before I remove my coat in front of classmates. Since then, I always check before I left for school to have all of my uniform parts.

My favorite memory from school was going clothes shopping for one and just being around good friends, I loved going to school to see and talk to my friends not to mention I was a cheerleader for 10 years and loved every min of it! I miss school so much!

We lived in a house at the top of a hill, and you could see halfway down the hill (road) from our kitchen window. On my first day of school, I remember walking home and at the mid point of the hill, seeing my mom standing at the kitchen window watching us walk towards her. She did this almost every day, and it always made me feel loved, knowing she was waiting for me and would hug me as soon as I walked in the door! There wasn't a better feeling at the end of a long day.

It was National Farm Day so when the bus dropped me off at my school to go to class my then bf surprised me with a bouquet of roses then went with me to the atrium where I rode a miniature horse and milked a cow.

Going back to school meant more time with my friends and less time with my older sisters, and by that time we had spent plenty of time together all summer!

My favorite memory is showing up to 1st grade and finding out that my mom was my teacher. She had moved schools and surprised me,

For me, school was always my salvation. Due to my unusual family circumstances, I was able to work for my high school for teacher's as well as the Guidance Dept, from the Summer of 11th grade, through the Summer of 12th grade, for which I was paid. Going to college was not encouraged in my family, but obviously the Guidance Dept knew how important it was to me, and for me to go. They put my name in for a scholarship, which I won. That was in 1976. I still remember the organization that gave me my scholarship. Being the youngest of 3 girls, who I always got compared to in one way or another, winning this scholarship was uniquely my own achievement. It still is one of my fondest memories period. I will always be grateful!