High School, Senior Year

[fansee]

Tell us about your SENIOR year of high school! The longer ago it was, the more fun the answers will be

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[spikesgirl58]

Wow, high school in Japan must have been such an adventure!

[fansee]

Not as much as you might think. The school was on an adjacent air force base and was run by the University of California for dependent children only. So, American students taught by American teachers. It was quite a small school -- about 40/50 students -- and there was, of course, a pecking order. I was toward the bottom of that pecking order and subject to mild bullying. *sigh* Nothing awful, thankfully. FanSee

[spikesgirl58]

Ah, it sounds like the school our friends worked for in Taiwan.

[gilda_elise]

Wow, talk about culture shock, Japan to Oklahoma. But you met your future husband in high school, or did you know him even before that?

[fansee]

Walter was in the Air Force and stationed at a small air force base close to the Army post where my father was a doctor in Japan. We were all Jewish and went to Friday night services together -- usually attended by fifteen to twenty people -- including five from my family, so of course I got to know Walter.

Most of the girls in our school were dating service men. Our ages ran from 14 to 17. The 'men' were 18 to 22, so it wasn't as outrageous as it might sound. As far as I know, none of us were having sex in 1952 and 1953, although there was some heavy petting going on. FanSee

[guavejuice]

If you could go back and do it again would you? Never!

Ha! I totally understand what you mean Fans :) It's interesting since I graduated from high school 32 years ago and obviously never went through the experiences you went through in your senior year but I know the feeling of ' I never want to go back there again'. The only things I do remember fondly from my senior year is my amazing English teacher, the teacher who taught Classic literature and the fact I was a member of the "year book committiee"

[fansee]

My amazing teacher was C.C. Loveland whom I had first for World History and then for European History, both while I went to the Itazuke Air Force Base school. I'll never forget the time he asked us if we agreed with our history book's opinion of Napoleon. I was 15, and it had never occurred to me to question anything in a school book. I was gobsmacked. FanSee

[bigj52]

High school in Japan. I never expected that. I left high school in 1969 and met my hubby at the beginning of that year. Needless to say I was more interested in him than my schoolwork. He was a huge distraction to put it mildly. I did manage to scrape through my exams. I worked on Saturday mornings at our local haberdashery shop earning the princely sum of $2 for three hours work.

[fansee]

It was strictly for dependents of U.S. servicemen (Army and Air Force.) It was run by the University of California so it was American children being taught by American teachers. Not too exotic. FanSee