High School Moment #4
Number four on the all-time top five best moments in High School: The last day of Print Journalism my junior year. There's something magical about those few weeks before summer begins. Print Journalism last year was a blow-off class that was taken mostly by seniors in need of an easy A. It was such a blow-off class in fact, that guidance let me take it again this semester to make up for the alleged "waste of time" that it was. However, Print Journalism is/was not a waste of time at all. Actually, it is/was probably one of the funner classes I've taken in High School. It was another fine example of the Joe Chianakas teaching method; try to assign projects for the first week or two, fail miserably, and then give up completely. And last year, after the seniors graduated, there were only a handful of us Juniors left in the class, comprised of Dan, Nick, Breitbarth, Jaqueline "Mega-bitch" Koch, and one or two other people who's names escape me at the moment. So on one of the last days of class, Dan and Breitbarth hear this rumor that the lunchladies throw away all of the leftover chocolate ice-cream from that day's lunch. So the two went down to the cafeteria, and somehow coarsed the lunchladies into giving them ALL of the leftover chocolate ice-cream. This was a lot of fucking ice-cream, mind you. So much, in fact, that it filled three or four plastic jugs. Dan and Aaron hauled the ice-cream up to Chianakas' room, where they then started watching the Boondock Saints DVD on Joe's TV. As I strolled into sixth hour that afternoon, imagine my surprise when I discovered that everybody was stuffing down countless gallons of milkshake while watching a kickass movie. I immediately got my own container, and commenced the chugging of the greatest ice-cream experience I have ever had. I got milkshake all over myself, but it was well worth it. Looking back, the image of us all sitting in the darkened classroom, drinking milshake out of big jugs...it still makes me smile. I don't even think Chianakas showed up that day. Thank you Joe Chianakas, for not giving a rat's ass about your classes.