Don’t look

So while I was at school, walking around one of the round buildings, I saw a guy. I pretty much ignored him and kept walking, but was suddenly surrounded by a group of girls (maybe 7?). They made a half circle around me, so I was trapped against the wall. The shortest one, a Phillipina,…

Before my time

So here I go at a new school. It’s interesting, all the buildings are round, and some have two floors with a railed walkway, all the doors facing out, instead of halls. I have always gotten along with my teachers better than the students, and English, since I was good at it, was my favorite…

Anything can be a pet

Since we’re already doing this wild time loop, I thought of some stuff from San Antonio, too. (Yup -MANY posts back!) The first one because it kinda comes up in Hawaii, too: I kept spiders for pets. The little cute fuzzy jumping spiders that look up at you with almost puppy-dog eyes. They lived in…

Rewind, do-over

Crap, I did it again: thinking of stuff about Hawaii, I realized I’d forgotten things from Jersey. So in my post “https://donthopesurvive.wordpress.com/2017/06/14/here-comes-the-flood/” I mention the study we had. It also had bookshelves with a full set of Encyclopedia Brittanica. I loved these! Especially the clear film anatomy pages that you could flip through. When I…

Back on the plane, gang

And, that was Jersey, so we’re off again, back to Hawaii. I think we may have even ended up in the same building we were in before, but in the end apartment this time (they were quadruplexes), and oh, boy, was I starting to get pathetic. I would moon bathe when it shone through my…

You’ve seen one spirit…

Okay, so if you finished that sentence in your head, it’s not true, you haven’t seen them all, but I couldn’t think of a better title. Around this time, I also started noticing a ghost in the house. It was mostly just him doing small but nice things, like when I walked toward my door,…

Oh, god, it’s the face of God

I’ve been dreading writing this one. Please try not to be too judgmental. So in this school we didn’t have lockers, just cubby-holes hidden behind curtains in out homeroom classroom. One night at home I was laying on my back in bed, and I saw the face of Jesus looking at me from above. I…

Looking down my nose

Report cards, and testing time. I know I scored well; in the sixth grade I scored in an eighth grade education level, with ninth grade reading. I know I have mentioned it before, and I will again, it has become an integral part of me: I am not that smart. Common sense, barely. Street smarts,…

If I grow whiskers

Back to school. Ugh. For lunch one day I had a sandwich that was crunchy, so I was thinking bacon? But it tasted weird, and Helen can cook/make stuff taste good. I think I tried to make myself eat it, but couldn’t, and threw it in the trash. I found out later that someone had…

Summer camp – yay…

Helen was still doing her Army Reserve duties, so once a year she had to go to training for two weeks. One year she got a family to babysit us for the whole time (I have no clue where dad was), this year, camp. I was dreading it just hearing about it. So, off we…