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Beyond Belief
by A RedSox Fan

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7;10 AM, never went to sleep

03/19/2009

Fill this out about your SENIOR year of high school! The longer ago it was, the more fun the answers will be!!

IN YOUR SENIOR YEAR DID YOU...
1. Did you date someone from your school?
Me? Date? I didn’t have a single date in high school.

2. Did you marry someone from your high school? NA

3. Did you car pool to school?
I was a big boy. I walked to school all by myself

4. What kind of car did you have?
A red 1978 T-top fire bird

5. What kind of car do you have now?
A red 1978 T-top fire bird

6. It is a Saturday night...
I am doing homework while listening to sports.

7. It is Saturday night...where were you then?
Could be in my house or at a game.

8. What kind of job did you have in high school?
Who had time for a job with all the homework I had?

9. What kind of job do you do now?
Mental health counselor

10. Were you a party animal?
ah, NO

11. Were you considered a flirt?
ah, no

12. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir?
I had too much of my own extra activities.

13. Were you a nerd?
If by that you mean I was always thinking-doing school work? Than yes.

14. Did you get suspended or expelled?
no

15. Can you sing the fight song?
Do we have one? I am sure we do, I just don’t know what it is.

16. Who was/were your favorite teacher(s)?
Mrs. Yagjian, who 11 years later helped me fix my thesis paper and Mr. Vope. Who is now the guidance counselor and my sis is applying to work at the hs as a counselor so she’ll be working side by side with him.

17. Where did you sit during lunch?
I didn’t have any friends. The kids I ate lunch with the first 3 years were all either in a vocational school, juvy hall, or just dropped out. I sat by myself in my little room.

18. What was your school's full name?
Saugus High School, or as many refered to it as Saugus school of the high

19. When did you graduate?
1997

20. What was your school mascot?
A native American (to be PC about it)

21. If you could go back and do it again, would you?
I am not sure. If I know then what I know now? Maybe.

22. Did you have fun at prom?
YES! Before prom, I took my date out for Chinese food, after we went to an all night school sponsered thing. The really cool thing, it was not in the HS gym, one of the town's politition owned a dance hall in NH and donated it to us till 7AM. (hmm maybe we went for Chinese food inbetween the prom and all night rave)

23. Do you still talk to the person you went to prom with?
I almost got to see her Sunday but she did not show up to her first neffew’s Bathtism
I took my best friend's sister.

24. Are you planning on going to your next reunion?
no, I didn’t have any friends in high school plus I don’t do well in social situations. Not like I can walk up to people and start talking.

25. Do you still talk to people from school?
In the 12 years since graduating, only 3 of my classmates stopped me to say hi. 1 at a pizza place, one at the mall and one at the airport.

26. School Colors?
Red and White … I think

27. What celebrities came from your high school?
There is a male model from my class. Besides him, I don’t know.

28. What was your favorite memory of high school?
My JR prom. I took the love of my life.

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What many of you may not know about me is all the assist I got till I graduated HS.

I had a 1-on-1 Aid who would meet me when I got to school, walk me to all my classes, take all my notes for me, and give me all my tests.

Do to my hearing disability, I had a speach teacher I would see 2-3 periods a week.

Do to my blindness, I would have a Braille-computer technology teacher that I saw 5 periods a week and sometimes after school. She would mainly teach me word perfect and all the hot keys. I also had a little computer called the Braille and Speak. She would help me with advance stuff on that. I would also have to read books for her and do book reports on the computer. I believe she also, when she could, get tests from my teachers early, and braille them so I could read them myself and just give my aid the answers for her to fill-write in my answers. She also helped me learn the letters for spanish braille since I took 4 years of honors spanish.

I also had PT, who I would see two periods a week that would replace my gym requirement. We would mostly stretch me out and than work out on the weight machines they had.

I had a Mobility Instructor. He would teach me how to get around. It started with my school, than neighborhood, Eventually the bus and trains. My SR year, he would take me to the colleges I was applying to see the lay out and how big they were. During the summer after I graduated hs, when everyone was enjoying the summer time, I was learning my way around the college I was going to. I had to learn 3 campouses. Knowing where all my classes were and the caf, the book store, the thearter, the athletic building, and the campous center. Except for Biology class, it was defanately one of the most dificult things I had to learn-memorize in my life.

Try to close your eyes and walk around your college.

Mobility was the only thing that continued beyond HS. I went from having all that help to no help at all. I would have to take my own notes. Find a chair in the classroom that was unocupied where I could hear the teacher from. Be my own advicate and talk to the profesors myself. Teaching them how to teach to me. Figuring out what to do about taking tests and how I would handle doing research reports and other projects.

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WOW! That is am azing, even at my college, in the state of NM, they have an advocate for that as well as someone to help them. SO I applaud you!

[Simply*CarliseStar|0 likes] [|reply]

We have a student in the Music school here who blind and has perfect pitch. I remember over the summer, walking around campus and seeing him walk around campus with an aid so he could learn how to get around. Now he doesn't it completely by himself and it's so impressive.

I would love to see photos from your Junior prom! lol.

[Kate.Monster|0 likes] [|reply]

Very cool

[»Mommy To Be«|0 likes] [|reply]

ryn: Aww yeah I'm sure he'd love that He doesn't have contact with the outside world unless it's calling or writing me or his family, and occasional visits, so I'm sure anything he would get would make him happy. And I will definitely share your note to Scarlett with him

[»Mommy To Be«|0 likes] [|reply]

Cool and interesting xx

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