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Ocean Depths – Page 25 – Chapter 3
CHAPTER 3 – MORE SCHOOL DAYS
MEMORABLE EVENTS
While I had been in the hospital, my family had moved from our home on Hodge Avenue. I am not really sure why but remember being very angry about it. This meant that upon being discharged from the hospital in May, the last couple of weeks of the sixth grade, I had to start attending a different school! I attended there for the next two years, through 7th and 8th grades. Kennedy Elementary School was a single-story building built into the slope of a hill so that there were three levels, each level a bit higher on the hillside. Rather than stairs it had ramps in the hallways, which were very easy to use with braces on my legs. One memory from that school is singing the following song in the talent show with a group of seven other girls. I BELIEVE - Author unknown I believe for every drop of rain that falls
A flower grows,
I believe that somewhere in the darkest night
A candle glows,
I believe for everyone who goes astray,
Someone will come to show the way,
I believe, I believe.
I believe above the storm the smallest prayer
Will still be heard,
I believe that someone in the great somewhere
Hears every word,
Every time I hear a newborn baby cry,
Or touch a leaf, or see the sky,
Then I know why,
I believe. There were dances every month at the school for the seventh and eighth grades. At one dance we had a
DJ from a local radio station. There was a drawing that night and I won a coupon for a free pair of shoes at the Nordstrom’s store. Going up onto the stage to receive the coupon, the first thing the DJ said to me, with the microphone turned on was, “What are you doing? Standing in a hole?” I was very embarrassed, but not so much that I refused to take the coupon! Many years later I was able to make contact via the Internet with girls who had been my friends at that school. Each one of them
CHAPTER 3 – MORE SCHOOL DAYS
MEMORABLE EVENTS
While I had been in the hospital, my family had moved from our home on Hodge Avenue. I am not really sure why but remember being very angry about it. This meant that upon being discharged from the hospital in May, the last couple of weeks of the sixth grade, I had to start attending a different school! I attended there for the next two years, through 7th and 8th grades. Kennedy Elementary School was a single-story building built into the slope of a hill so that there were three levels, each level a bit higher on the hillside. Rather than stairs it had ramps in the hallways, which were very easy to use with braces on my legs. One memory from that school is singing the following song in the talent show with a group of seven other girls. I BELIEVE - Author unknown I believe for every drop of rain that falls
A flower grows,
I believe that somewhere in the darkest night
A candle glows,
I believe for everyone who goes astray,
Someone will come to show the way,
I believe, I believe.
I believe above the storm the smallest prayer
Will still be heard,
I believe that someone in the great somewhere
Hears every word,
Every time I hear a newborn baby cry,
Or touch a leaf, or see the sky,
Then I know why,
I believe. There were dances every month at the school for the seventh and eighth grades. At one dance we had a
DJ from a local radio station. There was a drawing that night and I won a coupon for a free pair of shoes at the Nordstrom’s store. Going up onto the stage to receive the coupon, the first thing the DJ said to me, with the microphone turned on was, “What are you doing? Standing in a hole?” I was very embarrassed, but not so much that I refused to take the coupon! Many years later I was able to make contact via the Internet with girls who had been my friends at that school. Each one of them