My diary -October 18-20, 1972
- Susan Fisch Good
- Jul 4
- 2 min read
October 18, 1972 Wed.
Dear Flowers:
School! I got to bed at 11:30 last night studying. We got our class picture back today. I don’t like mine but mom & rest do. Science test essay. I used 8 sides of paper. Stayed after instead of lab we had test Tried to take a nap. Read abit on Prelude to Love. Becky at Lauren’s today. We picked her up & I went for ride with Dave to boy scouts. Got to study for Spanish.
BYE!
Note: It is interesting how most of us never like how we look in pictures. We are our own worst critics. I still am, zeroing in on all my perceived worst flaws. I guess it is human nature.
David was active in the Boy Scouts. The thought of camping out in the wilderness was not appealing to me. My parents didn’t encourage me to join the Girl Scouts, and I never pressed the issue. I know Missy had done it and enjoyed it.
October 19, 1972 Thurs.
Dear Flowers:
I got 109 on Science test!!! I got extra credit right too. Let see I had a race with Julio to math. I lost. BAH! This little punk told me to go to hell! I told these guys to stop talking about Drama in front of him & Steve said Oh hes a queer! & he turns around & screams at me infuriating!!! Stayed for Drama. I’m a lousy actor YEAK Awful! Went to Simmons (P.S. she changed much nicer) Got to study for Spanish & english!
BYE!!
Note: When I committed to writing this blog, I decided not to censor what I had written, even when it was embarrassing or inappropriate. I am not sure what the altercation was with the young man. I called him a little punk, which wasn’t nice either. Most of the guys were pretty short next to me, as I was 5’7” by age twelve. Most of them caught up years later.
October 20, 1972 Fri.
Dear Flowers:
Blue Friday. Saw a movie on French Revolution 1st & 2d period so missed History & Spanish. English test mas o menos. Lost race to math again. Went straight from school to C.C! We ate
lunch there. Went to Dentist & then to Dr. Alvaros for Mom. Kim really insulted me. Ricardo asked him what he was going to give me for Xmas & he said love & his child! Gross!
Watched T.V.
BYE!!
Note: Due to the extreme heat in Nicaragua, our school schedule was 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The school wasn’t air-conditioned; it was only cross-ventilated. I still remember sneaking in raw eggs and having competitions during recess to see whose egg cooked up first on the hot pavement.
Having lunch at the Nejapa Country Club was a treat. I always ordered an avocado appetizer. It was served in a fancy glass cup with cocktail sauce, sliced lemon, and avocado scooped into round balls. I also got their frozen lemonade or orange juice. Delicious!
I bet you were happy to get that over the top Science grade! Nothing to lose for trying Extra Credit - I often included those opportunities when I taught.
2 questions - wonder what Math Race was ; What is Blue Friday ?
Always a joy to read your entries 🙂
No worries...your readers appreciate your candor. If, at 14, you said he was a punk, rest assured, he was a punk. All schools had a few punks and bullies, no matter the country. I can only guess what it was like being a girl, and taller than all the boys in class. At 12, I got tired of being called "machillo", but by 15, in a new school, and the only gringo in the class, the epithets were not so benign. Things worked out, as they usually do, and the experience was priceless.
You got out of school at 12:30? Qué dichosa, mae! Qué tuanis! No wonder you had so many after school activities! That heat though, yeah, well…
Susan, what an awesome photo and I’m sure those boys were just jealous or had a crush on (wink wink) Love, Amanda S.
My first impulse was to say this post should be titled Susie’s First Curling Iron; but then I thought that photo taken was before they were (re)invented. Your sweet, flippy hairstyle was likely the result of several hours bolted in to rather miserable curlers! Did you have those mesh ones with a prickly little bush inside each? They were a form of Saturday night torture!