Memories

In thinking about Rachel going off to college and the fact that I'm starting year two, I was getting very reminiscent. So I decided to make a list of my favorite memories with my friends. In no particular order:

• Choir with Rachel. Our mutual hatred and subsequent constant separation.
• Being the third tree in the church musical The Three Trees and having to be put on a stool because I was tiny and Victoria and Leila were massive (compared to me).
• The Christmas Eve service based on Dr. Seuss where Rachel and I were Thing 1 and Thing 2 but we were attached at the head with one of Victoria's scarves.
• Food fair where Rachel had a fever and was delirious. She thought every African-American person was Ethiopian. And there was a kid who tried to steal snow and ski on one ski.
• Deep frying EVERYTHING at a church food fair.
• Being taught how to drive by Fred in the church parking lot.
• Eventually moving out of the church parking lot and into a cemetery and the parking lot of Fred's former high school (where we proceeded to hit Fred with her own car).
• The Six Flags trip where we lost everything only to find it all again.
• Six Flags with Jeff throwing up the whole day. And not learning our lesson and refusing to buy a locker at the water park again.
• Freshman year science:
• Mr. Duggan's drug suspicions about Marissa.
• Getting yelled at for playing games on my calculator.
• When our final exam was completely unsupervised.
• The day Marissa's purse circulated the entire room.
• When I threw Marissa's chapstick across the room and it went into a closet, and Marissa refused to go in to get it.
• When Marissa went to room 128 for science, but couldn't find it. So she decided to check 228, but it was a math class. So she finally came back to our real room 10 minutes late and got yelled at only to discover there is no room 128.
• Canobie Lake Park. And the infamous mini-cassette tape. "When I say 'ball'..." and "How does this ride work?" "Well, I turn the key and it goes." "Thank you."
  
• Sophomore year science:
• Holmie stamping anything, even if it was complete bullshit.
• When Marissa touched Sean's crotch.
• Always being in a group with Sean and Reed even though Marissa hated them both and had a strong dislike for me.
• The moldy bread experiment.
• The awkwardness when we asked to swab Srta. Dalton's room for bacteria.
• Junior year science:
• I really need Gabrielle's chemistry folder to sum this up. I'm going to pester her to find it.
• Ms. Brown's awful jokes.
• Being lied to about making ice cream. Continuously.
• Junior year history:
• Ms. Green. Enough said.
• Junior year English:
• Mr. Labastie's massive packet on how to write a thesis paper.
• The Red Badge of Courage. Awful book.
• Mr. Labastie's inchworm story. And then Gabrielle finding one on her bag right after.
• All of Mr. Labastie's anal compulsiveness about papers. That in the end really did help.
• When Aaron was cheating on our spelling test by having the list on Humza's hood, and Mr. Labastie couldn't figure out what was so funny. "Is there something on my face? What is so funny!?"
  
• Senior year Spanish:
• The craptastic Uruguay project Marissa and I did.
• The quiz everyone failed and we tacked to the board. Our own Wall of Shame.
• Senora and Hannah getting into fights and mimicking each other.
• Sean refusing to answer to Juan and demanding to be called Cortes.
• E.T. that wasn't really E.T. Maybe it was like the X-rated director's cut...
• La Casa de Bernarda Alba. Awful. Everyone failing the quiz even though we read it in English because Sean bought the translated version online.
• Our video final. That Marissa didn't trust me on. We used stick puppets. They were hideous, but creative.
• The midyear of death.
• Senora finally giving up on us in the end.
• The crazy movie with the guy who carried around his dead daughter.
• Mujeres al Borde de un Ataque de Nervios. Exactly.
• Drama Club:
• Movie nights that hardly anyone showed up to.
• The night we were supposed to watch Working, but Chris didn't show up and he was the one who had it so we watched Hedwig and the Angry Inch instead.
• Drama Festivals in Scituate, Hamilton-Wenham, Andover, and Brockton.
• Being yelled at when we were at St. John's Prep.
• The amazingness of being Stage Manager.
• Merrily We Roll Along and Working.
• Senior year council trying to get shit done.
• The failed apple picking excursion.
• Canning. Oy.
• I don't even know where to begin with Mr. Pearse.
• Not being able to say the word "juxtaposition".
  
• Trips to NH with Fred.
• Random chats about life with Rachel.
• Stealing trash from the Tennants with Fred and Rachel.
• Coming up with the name Fred.
• Coming up with Fred's full alias. Frederick Jehosophat Londonderry.
• Catchphrase!! "When you're moving and you live in a WAMP WAMP!"
• Living in Kate and Mal's room.
• Tracking down Julifer in the woods in the middle of the night.
• WOCK.
• Music videos!
• 80s night!
• Walking down to Wok n House and being pissed about the walk back up.
• Cabaret.
• Music Theory class!!!

There's so many more, but I'm getting tired of thinking of them right now. If I left something out that you feel should be put in, let me know.