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When I was a kid, I loved going back to school...

Because we always got brand new clothes....we got new clothes only for back to school, Christmas and the different holidays, and for our birthdays...otherwise, we were always dragged up to the Salvation Army or the Goodwill, if we needed clothes in between times....

And I loved getting all the new school supplies...new compostion books, new packs of paper, all new pens and pencils and bottles of ink(I loved the Peaccock Blue and Red inks, tho the teachers made us use only black and dark blue for our assignments...but mom always bought me the Peacock blue and Red for my own pleasure)...

Silly as it sounds, after I got all my new school supplies, I put them all in a neat pile, and would drag them out each day, and put them on my bed and inspect them...dont know why I would do such a goofy thing, but somehow I just liked the look of all that new clean fresh paper, and supplies that had not been used yet...

So with all new school supplies, and all new clothes, I happily went back to school...of course, that novelty wore thin very quickly, and soon we were wishing it was still summer....

However, that being said, I must say, I enjoyed school....we had some really odd teachers, with really strange personalities, and every class has it usual kids who are jokers and just plain funny...so actually, sometimes going to school, depending on the shenanigans of the teachers and the students, could be quite entertaining...

;-) I LOVED peacock blue - my teachers hated it.

Do you remember the kid who would throw up in the class right after lunch?
Or the one or two that would get whacked with the teacher's ruler?
Then there were the not so bright kids that were not promoted - and would bully the younger kids at recess.
Playing Red Rover. Let Jimmy come over? Kiss the girls and away he ran - chased by all the little girls.

Great job with those memories Mom - thanks.