My diary - November 25-27, 1972
- Susan Fisch Good
- Oct 3
- 3 min read
November 26, 1972 Sun.
Dear Flowers:
A Good Day! Nov. is flying bye & fast! Already the 26. Almost Xmas. Got up at 7:00. We went to Granada (with Edgar) to see the baseball game of Salvador & U.S.A. It was great. USA won: 15 to 3! We ate lunch at Tip-Top. We really got to know Edgar at lunch. He has a novia but he’s really a groovy guy! He showed us loads of trick & showed me & Beck a picture he drew of (can’t decipher my handwriting) to ducks making love. We went to the airport to see him off (sob!) & came home & ate. Trost & Mr. Hingst were over.
BYE!!!
Note: How exciting to attend the 20th Amateur World Series hosted by Nicaragua from November 15 to December 5, 1972. This was the first year that Asia was included, covering four continents, with only Africa and Australia yet to be included. A new stadium was built in Managua on the site of the old penitentiary, which was destroyed during the 1931 earthquake. The games were primarily played in this stadium, but also in outlying cities: Granada, León, Masaya, and Chinandega.
Tip-Top restaurant had the best chicken dinner.
Great that we got to know a bit about Edgar, and I guess he was quite the artist with interesting subjects, lol. I love my use of the word 'groovy.'
Novia - means girlfriend or fiancé
November 27, 1972 Mon.
Dear Flowers:
School!! I got an 80 on Math test. Pulled my grade down (& how) & 95 on homework. It rained so we had P.E. in Auditorium. I hit a soft ball out of the audi. Yeah. Drama pueky! Simone & Chiu came over. Worked on English Theme. Dave helped (did practically all) on mobile today (in Baseball) Nic versus U.S.A. I hope U.S.A. wins. I got to study for Spanish test & Science.
WISH me luck.
BYE!!
Note: Another interesting spelling of pueky for pukey.
Simone, Chiu, and David helped mw put together a mobile for the English project.
The U.S. was head-to-head playing against Nicaragua but won in extra innings.
November 28, 1972 Tues.
Dear Flowers:
1st 4 periods awful! Spanish test hard, History boring, English a flop! Mobile got all tangled impossible to get loose. Science test hard! Out of 5 question I got 3 wrong. Math class better I got that 80 pulled up to a 88. 6th period I clued take out cards in books & stamped them. Fun. Tennis lesson with Oscar PWEK! As I was crossing to tennis court I car right near me honked (Full of Guys) It was that cute guy from Spanish Roberto. Went swimming. Watched T.V.
BYE!!!
Note: How frustrating to have the mobile all tangled up and not able to untangle. Hopefully, Mr. Martin still gave us a good grade.
I loved gluing the cards’ holders on library books and checking them out. This helped me secure work-study jobs in libraries at the various universities I attended and a job as head librarian at Reservoir Public Library in Brandon, Mississippi, in the 1980s. It was one of my favorite jobs!
I am catching up on your journal entries! Look how cute you were in Mississippi, I don't think I knew you had gone there for a job! I love all your stories!
That airmail stamp says 17c. Would that be US? But if it was issued in Nicaragua, would it not be in the local currency? Wasn't the exchange rate there about 8 or so to 1?
OK, the indecipherable word begs guessing; my vote is that it says "united", and "to" would be "two". That's the only way it would make sense. I'm sure the statement "you'd just have to be there" would apply here, LOL.
How did you end up in Brandon, MS.?
Oh I laughed on this one. I remember using pukey as one of my descriptive teen words. Keep writing and remembering.
Brings back some vague memories! I do remember the mobile project!
How nice seeing the picture of you working in this library. It’s lovely to think what a happy part of our lives books and libraries have been, isn’t it? Both all the books I’ve read and all the wonderful people I’ve met there—-including my first, really exceptional librarian, Lavona Simpson, and brilliant you—have shaped the way I view and understand the world. Though we were doing it literally worlds apart, I think is has played much the same role in your life.