Absolutely impressed. That takes massive patience and attention to detail. Besides the pride you got from having it on the wall, you learned things so far beyond simple carpentry from that.
Catholic girls high school here. We learned how to sit on a chair without looking behind us by using a leg to touch the chair. Your classes sound FAR more useful.
I forgot what the options were, but every student could choose a project to work on toward the end of the semester, I chose a gun rack thinking it would be useful if it actually worked as it was supposed to.
I credit the teacher with giving me advice and what to do next in order to get it put together. I cut the individual pieces, sanded it down, put it all together, stained it put strips of felt where the guns rested.
We had home ec in my HS.
I took them all through jr and sr high and aced them all. it was easy to do when you knew it all already because you had a mom who actually taught you that stuff.
It kept my GPA from tanking. I didn’t learn I was smarter than I realized until I went back to college in my mid 20’s after dropping out initially. I went on to make it to dean’s list several semesters getting my meteorology degree.
I should have graduated on the Dean’s list, but after years of pounding into my head that you can’t get more accurate in decimal places than the initial numbers, they did just that and I missed dean’s list because they didn’t round as they beat into our heads that we had to.
So they calculated my GPS to the thousandth place for courses that had grades and credits only to the tenths place.
Missed it by a few thousandths.