Some Graduation Fun!

Howsabout a little Monday fun?

If you're on Facebook, you might have seen this fun little quiz circulating recently. I decided to do it today, since the post I planned to use today isn't quite done yet. It's been fun to read people's answers and to think about my own senior year, which took place twenty-three years ago now. (WHAT?!)

1. Did you know your significant other?

Well, there's a big difference between knowing him and making eye contact with him. Did I know him? Yes. Did I talk to him? No way. He was way too popular for this wallflower!! But for those of you who may not know, yes, we did go to the same high school, and I was a year ahead of Ryan.

2. What kind of car did you drive?

I was the proud driver of a little blue/gray Ford Escort that my parents bought when I was in elementary school. (The photo above is from my freshman year of college, but it's one of the few photos I have of that car. I hadn't learned the value of documenting just yet.) Once I got my license, this car became "mine," and it's also the one I took with me to college. After my college graduation, my parents let me use it as a trade-in on the purchase of my own first Bekah-mobile.

3. Where did you work? 

I was a babysitter! I started sitting in junior high and continued throughout high school. I had four primary families, though I would occasionally sit for others, too. Those four families kept me busy most weekends - and every now and then, weeknights, too.

4. Where did you live?

Good old small-town, central Indiana! Same county where we live now, in fact. God hasn't led us too far from home so far!

5. Were you popular?

Oh goodness, no. That wasn't so fun back then, but I am so thankful for it now. As I look back on what sorts of troubles and temptations I could have found myself in if I'd run with a more popular crowd, I'm thankful God kept it simple for me. Having said that, I would also like to say I had a fantastic group of friends that are still dear to me to this day. They were good to me, loyal, and I'm grateful to still have them! (This isn't a complete photo, but I didn't have many group photos, so this encompasses a good number of them.)

6. Were you in choir? 

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I can't sing. Ryan was in choir, though, and he loved it! I did take a music history class one year, and that proved to be one of my most favorite high school classes I ever took. I did participate in the talent show my senior year and got to hang out with my friends who WERE in choir! Does that count?

7. Ever get suspended from school? 

Are you kidding me? I wouldn't even have dared to get sent to the office!! Suspended? Nope.

8. If you could go back, would you?

Absolutely not. I am grateful for the growing I did during that year, but you couldn't pay me any amount of money to go back. It was not my favorite season of life.

9. Still talk to the person that you went to prom with? 

Well, I didn't go to prom, so that presents a pickle, doesn't it? I believe on prom night, I went to Fazoli's for breadsticks and Coke. I survived my senior year on a significant dose of carbs. :)

10. Did you skip school?

Technically, yes, but also technically, no. How's that for an answer? Our senior class trip was a long weekend trip to Washington D.C. Those who didn't go were required to come to school. I didn't go on the trip, but everyone knew that coming to school on that day meant you were the ultimate nerd, so I arranged a college visit day. (Skipping outright would not have been permitted.) So one of my friends and I spent the day at IWU. And it's not documented at all. Oh, Baby Bekah. You failed your future self.

11. Go to all the football games? 

How about never went to a single one? My first high school football game came on the night of Ryan's 20th class reunion when he and his classmates went to the homecoming game.

12. What was your favorite class? 

Hmmm. Probably Home Ec. I took pretty much all the Home Ec classes I could. I liked playing house, so those were fun. But I also really enjoyed cadet teaching. (If that's not a thing where you are...it was a class where juniors and seniors could spend a class period over at the elementary school, helping out in a classroom there. I helped in my mom's class.) 

13. Do you still have your yearbook?

Yes, although it's in storage. I was actually on the yearbook staff my senior year. Our teacher was a first-year, fresh-from-college teacher who had no experience in teaching yearbook and had no idea she was going to BE teaching yearbook when she took the job. It may not have been the best situation. She gave it her all, but she had no idea what she was doing. 

14. Did you follow the career path you wanted? 

Pretty sure I didn't know what I wanted to do, and some days I still don't know! I wanted to be a teacher, but I didn't want to do all the non-teaching requirements that were already starting to show themselves even back then. I wanted to write novels until I got to college and found out I'm terrible at writing fiction. I wanted to be a secretary (which I did do upon several occasions early in life) and a pastor's wife (which is off the table unless God calls Ryan into the ministry)!

15. Do you have a class ring?

No, but I always wanted one. I had a friend who would sometimes let me wear hers for a day so I could enjoy the experience. 

16. Who was your favorite teacher?

Senior year? Boy, that's a toughie. I'm not sure I had a favorite that year. 

17. Did you graduate with a 3.0 or higher? 

I forgot, until I saw the quiz on Facebook (posted by a fellow Eastern Comet) that our school ran on a 12 point scale, so I'm not 100% sure of my GPA. I did graduate in the top 10% of my class (barely) so I am sure it probably was higher than a 3.0. (If I had been one class higher or lower, I would have been waayyyyyyyyyyy down the academic line. Those two classes were saturated with tons of super smart people.)

18. How old were you at graduation? 

Barely 18. Since the calendar year that year matches this one, I know I turned 18 on Tuesday, had my last day of classes on Wednesday, and graduated on Sunday. So I hadn't even been 18 for a whole week when I graduated. (Big week!) 

So how about you? Any fun answers to any of these?