{"id":838,"date":"2011-05-27T22:14:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T02:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/?p=838"},"modified":"2011-05-27T22:14:48","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T02:14:48","slug":"do-you-remember-grade-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/do-you-remember-grade-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you remember grade 7?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I still remember grade 7, better than grade 1 or grade 12. Grade 1 is somewhere out on the ocean, on a foggy island. Grade 12 seems to be covered by a layer of snow. All I see is white, among the trees and bushes. I can’t name ten significant events there, compared to fifty from grade 7. Let’s not forget, I loved school (in grade 7)! Now grade 12 is a different issue. After learning much math and a lot of science & societal issues, grade 12 just fit into the fabric of our modern society. It’s just one step in the production. But I still love the idea of grade 7, like a grassy knoll frozen in crystal clear ice. What is so memorable and what do I remember about it?<\/a><\/p>\n

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  1. Missing school for about a month in Canada. Cool!<\/li>\n
  2. Getting brand new chairs during Christmas (school chairs were replaced)<\/li>\n
  3. The math teacher taught the wrong lesson at the start of September which showed up as the last lesson<\/li>\n
  4. Humans have evolved from monkeys (specifically referencing Geography teacher, who had more body hair)<\/li>\n
  5. Geography teacher plays catch against the wall<\/li>\n
  6. Someone wore a loose shirt while picking up a book<\/li>\n
  7. Spelling Islam as “I slam” during spelling test<\/li>\n
  8. Not to boast about knowledge that other people can’t understand after discussing biorythms in English class<\/li>\n
  9. Math teacher mentions the Kenedies<\/li>\n
  10. Math teacher talks about spanking in schools<\/li>\n
  11. Kelley showed me a drawing which he thought was funny<\/li>\n
  12. Having a starred conversation sitting in front of two people on the bus<\/li>\n
  13. The road beside the bus station getting a ditch<\/li>\n
  14. Walking home across town after missing the bus<\/li>\n
  15. Getting whiplashed by long hair standing behind the lines of someone turning<\/li>\n
  16. Oh yuck! Found a piece of black paper in the corn in the cafe<\/li>\n
  17. Making an airplane that flew straight and never sank (paper airplane)<\/li>\n
  18. Summer nights playing games on the grass<\/li>\n
  19. The hat as it flew off while I was running<\/li>\n
  20. Watching comedy with a man named Josh, who had the same name as my other friend Josh, who had the same name as my old best friend Josh<\/li>\n
  21. Maybe Joshua means “one Jesus”, as I thought, reading the Bible<\/li>\n
  22. Reading an encyclopedic book of short stories for children<\/li>\n
  23. At the end of the year, various animals as a collection of books each day<\/li>\n
  24. Exhaustion, after not sleeping well and taking a test during the summer<\/li>\n
  25. Clarity, reading a poetry book of experiences on the sea<\/li>\n
  26. Spending some days in spring break walking mazes in NeoPets<\/a><\/li>\n
  27. Fall break, reading a book on vocabulary<\/li>\n
  28. The worst flu of my life!<\/li>\n
  29. A commercial tower appeared in SimCity<\/a> in the first year<\/li>\n
  30. Winning an Easter bunny machine from a community event<\/li>\n
  31. Dissecting cow hearts with the surgeon of the class<\/li>\n
  32. Don’t tell the truth, Ben will be disappointed by the literal translation of his name to Chinese<\/li>\n
  33. Eating seaweed, the joke being other people mistaking it for grass<\/li>\n
  34. Teacher says I should give animal crackers<\/li>\n
  35. Three interpretations of “Favorite Bird” (Iraq): duck (bombardment), turkey (nearby country), chicken (playing chicken)<\/li>\n
  36. Guy named Thomas dreams about harvesting resources on other planets<\/li>\n
  37. Visiting the Secret Cove with Kelley<\/li>\n
  38. Kelley’s fish tank<\/li>\n
  39. Playing an alien shooter game on the cellphone on the way to Niagara Falls<\/li>\n
  40. Stephen Hawking’s book on the tape on a cross continent journey<\/li>\n
  41. Tree in front of the house being split by lightning<\/li>\n
  42. Indian gives a penny for Halloween trick o’ treat<\/li>\n
  43. The math teacher, who was also a coach, talks to Richie about his recent performance in class<\/li>\n
  44. I still remembering trying to answer Frank’s question in English class<\/li>\n
  45. The meetings with the advisor to decide whether or not, “to be, or not to be”, and I decided to switch<\/li>\n
  46. Getting skin on my feet scratched off after walking a distance in the shoes<\/li>\n
  47. Feeling despair and hopelessness one night, Fall<\/li>\n
  48. The voice, a military commander through the morning routine<\/li>\n
  49. Shower music, to avoid the monsters<\/li>\n
  50. Drinking tea before the afternoon jog<\/li>\n
  51. Playing the piano after dinner at Mrs. Ting’s house, the start of lessons<\/li>\n
  52. Oversleeping by the breezy window, arrived at class late<\/li>\n
  53. See You at the Pole (911 event), which I never understood<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Maybe there is an infinite pool of memory in which I can remember every minute detail. Just how much digital memory is it? A dot, a speck, in the world of Mona Lisa Overdrive<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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