Just as a disclaimer, please don't expect proper grammar and punctuation in this blog post, or any other future blog posts. I'll do my best with the spelling, but everything else is up in the air. Run-on sentences, incomplete sentences, numbered lists, and bullet points are all very good friends of mine, you will meet all of them very soon.
Is This Real Life?
Second Grade. It came from out of nowhere. No more training wheels.
I knew about Addition and Subtraction. Then i started to hear the rumors......
Multiplication? Division? What are these things?!!
Luckily, it turns out that I would be safe from those two things for another year.
I came into second grade looking for something that I could really sink my teeth into.
That's when I discovered Geography, and everything changed.
Capital Cities. Country Flags. Postal Abbreviations. I had to know them all.
We did an activity where we were trying to memorize the U.S. States by their shape.
We had flash cards.
Then it became a competition.
Everyone wanted to be the first one who could identify all 50, without making a mistake.
The first one to do it would get their name put on the wall.
Forget The Oscars, THIS was the prize that everyone wanted.
I had to win. I had to be the first one to do it.
I watched others try before me, but they always got tripped up.
I was finally confident that i knew all 50, so I gave it a shot, and I nailed it.
But it wasn't enough. I wanted to know more. I wanted to learn more.
So I decided to memorize all 50 U.S. State Capitals.
After that, I started to memorize the capitals of different countries.
Then I started memorizing the flags of as many countries that I could.
Geography had become my favorite subject. I still love it to this day.
Geography, Gym Class, Recess, and Lunch, that's what I looked forward too.
Outside of school, you could find me down the street at my best friends house.
We did everything that kids did outside.
We played every sport imaginable. We made up our own games too.
We went swimming in the summer. We went sledding in the winter.
We rode our bikes. We played capture the flag. We made our own fun.
We both loved video games, and we still do to this day.
On any given day, there would be 5-10 of us, so we always had good numbers.
We played until the sun went down, then the next day. we did it all over again.
I miss those days, they were awesome.
Third Grade was now on the horizon.
Multiplication and Division were both going to become a reality soon.
I was ready for them.
But we'll get to that soon enough!
