High School Survey
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1. Who was your best friend? I didn't have a best friend throughout most of high school.
2.What sports did you play? I played basketball briefly, and badly.
3. What kind of car did you drive? I didn't get my license until college.
4. It's Friday night, where were you? Erm, at home panicking about writing the next revision of my play in time for my playwriting class the next day.
5. Were you a party animal? I had never been to a "party" party.
6. Were you considered a flirt? Ha. Ha. Hahahahahaha. Ha. Stop it, you're killing me.
7. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir? I was briefly in orchestra. The rest of the time I took random classes such as "computer music" (where we learned about synthesizers and MIDI and the like) and AP music theory.
8. Were you a nerd? Something like that.... perhaps more of a dork.
9. Did you get suspended/expelled? No, my life was quite boring in high school.
10. Can you sing the fight song? What's a fight song? Did we, uh, have one?
11. Who was your favorite teacher? I don't think I really had one. I guess I liked my math teacher Mrs. Kaida (I don't even actually remember her name, I think that was it) and Senora Woolford (I don't think I spelled that right), my Spanish teacher, at the Priory.
12.What was your school's full name? I went to three high schools: Orange High School (Orange, CA) 9th grade, St. Andrew's Priory (Honolulu, HI) 10th & 11th grade, and Iolani School (12th grade).
13. School mascot? OHS Panthers, Priory...uh? Did we have a mascot?, Iolani Raiders
14. Did you go to Prom? Yes, I did.
15. If you could go back and do it over, would you?
Sure, why not. Would I just relive it as it was, or would it be the current 23-year-old Sandra doing it over? Doing it over, yes, because I guess I would do things differently. You know how they say "no one ever says on their deathbed, 'I wish I spent more time at the office.'"? Well, I'd redo it to "spend more time in the office" rather than having fun, enjoying myself or talking to people. I would have worked harder, actually studied, etc.
If it was just to relive the miserable experience, no way.
16. What do you remember most about graduation?
Hm, you know, I don't remember much about graduation really. The only things I remember are our nice white ho'omu'umu'u (no idea if I got that right) and me trying to suck it in so my stomach wouldn't show. Standing next to the other "F" people (we were ordered by last name) and realizing I didn't know any of them really. Being super pissed my grades weren't good enough to be valedictorian. And being a shallow, stupid monkey and wearing my cum laude pin on my necklace because I was so proud of it (I feel embarrassed having done that now, I don't think anyone else wore theirs, but I am a show off).
17. Where were you on senior skip day? Probably at school? Anyway, I don't think we had one.
18. Did you have a job your senior year? No, I didn't.
19. Where did you go most often for lunch?
Um, my locker, where I would remove my lunchbox and retrieve its contents to consume as lunch.
Or do you mean where I ate lunch? I ate lunch alone, then I found friends and ate lunch with them in the grassy area outside the biology/chemistry/etc classroom. Then I moved to Hawaii, ate lunch on the 2nd floor balcony with friends, then I ate lunch in the journalism room. Then I changed schools again, and ate lunch at the senior benches.
20. What did you do after graduation?
Immediately after the event, or the summer after, or with the rest of my life? Immediately after, my family and I went to dinner, and then we had that Project Grad thing where they lock us in for an all-night party so that we don't go drinking and killing ourselves in accidents and such.
Summer after, I went to UH for summer school, and spent some time with friends. Probably the first time I ever really spent large amounts of time with friends outside of school was then.
Rest of my life? I went to college, and now I'm in grad school. So I'm still in school, basically. :-p