Tuesday Tell All-

This week, for posterity's sake, share with us a school memory from your own childhood. What is your earliest memory of school, what did you love about the first week of school, who was your favorite teacher, subject, or playground game?

* My earliest memory of school begins on my very first day of Kindergarten. My mom was late getting me to school (at the time had had 5 older girls she needed to get to school and make sure they were each settled). The bell had already rang, and all the kids had already taken their seats. I was crying and embarrassed and was refusing to go inside. My mom was trying all sorts of things to get me to go inside but to no avail, then she said to me that if I would go in she would take me to buy me a lunch box after school, and that she would let it be the one of my choice (which just happened to be a Popeye one). So after much thought I decided I would go in, but was still very nervous. Then as I walked in a little girl came up to me and asked me if I wanted to sit by her and be her friend and I said yes. Her name was Carolee Stout, and we remained best of friends throughout our school years, and are still friends to this day.
* I think the one thing I loved most about the first week of school was the feeling that you could do anything. That nothing was going to stop you from being the best at whatever you wanted to do. I remember each year feeling like such a big kid on the first week of school (usually feeling older than I actually was).
* My favorite teacher was Mrs. Cornelius. I happened to have her for both 1st and 2nd grade. She lived in our neighborhood, and I was really good friends with her grand daughter Jessica. She was always very nice to me, and made me feel like I was very important.
* My favorite subject was spelling, which I always seemed to do really well at. I remember when I was younger I would read things my sister's would write and I always would spot the miss spelled words, and bring it to there attention. (they probably did not appreciate me much)
* My favorite playground game was tag. I remember that we would split up in teams (girls against boys). If the girls tagged the boys we got to kiss them, and if the boys tagged us we had to tell them who we liked. Ellie plays the same game now at school, except they can't kiss the person they catch, so they just tell each other who they like.