Every single 1st day of school for the year or semester, my mom would sing the "School Days" song to me to wake me out of bed.

"School Days, School Days, good and golden rule days.  Reading and writing and arithmatic, all to a tune of a hickory stick."

Although annoying when I got into College.  It always marked something new and exciting.  It was cute too.

The first days of elementary and middle school were probably the most fun.  I was always excited to see all my friends again.  What do you remember about your first days of school?

Things were always tough, you would have to learn all new lock codes for your locker and you would dread the teachers you got stuck with who had a reputation for everyone disliking.

I have a feeling that I might sing school days to my children because tradition is a good thing.

So I am hanging out on the playground and I dont remember the circumstances, but somehow I made Julie Blood so angry at me that she grabbed my shoulders and slammed her knee right into my family jewels.

I remember losing my breathe completely... she seemed to know what she was doing.

But of course, I went to a teacher to tell on her.

I think it might have been Mr. Kowalski. 

Anyways, even though the pain had gone I was still crying in front of her and him I think.  She was forced to apologize to me.

Her and I always had interesting relationships.

I think it was Halloween 1994 when I first beat Final Fantasy 3 for SNES. I thought it was the coolest ending ever. Before we were trick or treating I think I was on the last battle and I had to pause it. I went trick or treating with Steve Trevaskis and Adam Pearsal, I think. After we trick or treated I came back and beat the game and it was the coolest feeling. I don't think there is a better game ending out there for the time that this came out. I am such a total dork that I still enjoy listening to the music from FF3 while I am at work. I remember I used to name all of the characters after my friends and the female characters after girls that I liked. I named the character "Locke" Noel.

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His Response:

Yea I remember my first day, I remember the people next to my locker. I loved having my brother to help guide me and support me. We also had a really fun guy near our lockers.

I remember at the time I already new many new people from Band camp and also football. I even was dating Millicent Motzny at the time probably. So things were going good.

There was so much excitement in the air. Being a freshman definitely sucks. You have no respect. And rightfully so...

It was sweet cause I probably didnt even take the bus on my first day of high school. My brother drove me everywhere.

The first days of high school and college is all rules and syllabi, you get your expectations set that day and you get to meet your teachers and professors.

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His Response:

One of the scariest moments that ever happened to me was once I was riding in a car with Jenice Winowicki and Valerie to Jazz band in high school and we were going through a solid green light.

Val and I could never find the seat belts in this car in the morning. And as usual, we didnt have them on because they were stuck in the seat somewhere probably.

So this car drives straight through the light on the corner of Cass Lake Road and Elizabeth lake road and miraculously, Jenice's father completely swerved and dodged it.

I was sitting on the side of which would have been hit by the car. It was a near possible death situation. I would have minimally went to the hospital with broken bones.

Somehow that always happens with me. The moment I dont have a seat belt on ... bad stuff happens.

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