life chronology part II: the Oakville Era
PART TWO: THE OAKVILLE ERA
1990: After spending half a year in grade 3, I was pushed forward a year over the Christmas holidays. It was the best way to alienate a child from both the grade 3 and grade 4 classes in one swift motion.
1991: Though a bit childish, startling the two pet guinea pigs of our fifth grade class never got old.
1992: I was asked out by a girl who would eventually become my high school prom queen (I said no thanks). I wonder if had she had really asked me in earnest.
1993: For music class, I was in a group project that had us choreograph a dance routine to "Hip Hop Hooray" by Naughty by Nature. It was one of the most ridiculous things I've done in my life (I remember a lot of sliding/crawling through legs, like we were playing frozen tag).
1994: A friend that just happened to be a girl used to come over often to do class projects. My youngest brother, who was 7 years old at the time, got into the habit of calling her my "fiancé." The joke stuck and in our senior high school yearbook, we listed each other as secret crushes.
1995: I switched from flute to clarinet in music class when I learned the only other guy playing flute had switched to trumpet.
1996: My high school drama club put on Cole Porter's "Anything Goes." Though I was on the behind-the-scenes set crew, that didn't stop us from doing all the dances backstage.
1997: I joined a clique. I still wasn't popular (nor were the other members of the group), but it broke me out of my shell. It also introduced me to a wild and crazy thing called "rock music."
1998: The first time I set foot in New York was during our senior year trip. We were staying in a hotel in Hell's Kitchen, and the name of the neighbourhood prevented us from straying far on our own - really only to the deli across the street for a sandwich, and only during daylight hours. Trip highlight? Cruising Manhattan in a rented limo (clichéd but surprisingly fun).
1999: I was voted in the graduation survey "Most changed since grade 9." I'm sure it had something to do with the fact that I was perhaps the nerdiest grade 9 student you'd ever met, and I was finishing off in OAC (grade 13) as a raver. But I still can't figure out if winning that "honour" was a compliment or a diss.
Coming up next, the last and final instalment: "HIGHER EDUCATION?"
1990: After spending half a year in grade 3, I was pushed forward a year over the Christmas holidays. It was the best way to alienate a child from both the grade 3 and grade 4 classes in one swift motion.
1991: Though a bit childish, startling the two pet guinea pigs of our fifth grade class never got old.
1992: I was asked out by a girl who would eventually become my high school prom queen (I said no thanks). I wonder if had she had really asked me in earnest.
1993: For music class, I was in a group project that had us choreograph a dance routine to "Hip Hop Hooray" by Naughty by Nature. It was one of the most ridiculous things I've done in my life (I remember a lot of sliding/crawling through legs, like we were playing frozen tag).
1994: A friend that just happened to be a girl used to come over often to do class projects. My youngest brother, who was 7 years old at the time, got into the habit of calling her my "fiancé." The joke stuck and in our senior high school yearbook, we listed each other as secret crushes.
1995: I switched from flute to clarinet in music class when I learned the only other guy playing flute had switched to trumpet.
1996: My high school drama club put on Cole Porter's "Anything Goes." Though I was on the behind-the-scenes set crew, that didn't stop us from doing all the dances backstage.
1997: I joined a clique. I still wasn't popular (nor were the other members of the group), but it broke me out of my shell. It also introduced me to a wild and crazy thing called "rock music."
1998: The first time I set foot in New York was during our senior year trip. We were staying in a hotel in Hell's Kitchen, and the name of the neighbourhood prevented us from straying far on our own - really only to the deli across the street for a sandwich, and only during daylight hours. Trip highlight? Cruising Manhattan in a rented limo (clichéd but surprisingly fun).
1999: I was voted in the graduation survey "Most changed since grade 9." I'm sure it had something to do with the fact that I was perhaps the nerdiest grade 9 student you'd ever met, and I was finishing off in OAC (grade 13) as a raver. But I still can't figure out if winning that "honour" was a compliment or a diss.
Coming up next, the last and final instalment: "HIGHER EDUCATION?"