My diary -October 3-5, 1972
- Susan Fisch Good
- May 30
- 2 min read
Updated: Jun 13
October 3, 1972 Tues.
Dear Flowers:
2 test today. English & Science. Hope I passed. Worked in Baby library. Got an eye infection. Had tennis lesson. It was fun. 1st I played David & Becky played Ricardo. Ricardo & I one team Becky David another Then we played doubles. Roberto Cazares watched us. Guess what I got soaked in the eye full blast! Glasses flew so did my racket. I thought I would pass out but I just laughed. Got letter from Missy. Gisela wants me to go to the movies with her, & Juan & Daniel Alvarado!
BYE!!
Note: I don’t remember what the Baby library was other than it was the library for the elementary. I still love libraries. Whenever I move to a new city or country, the first thing I do is scout out a library!
I wrote “soaked” instead of “socked.” I am surprised I didn’t get a blackeye. I bet my glasses saved my eye. I was a lucky girl. I also got a letter from Missy so it turned out to be a great day.
October 4, 1972 Wed.
Dear Flowers:
Lets see! I got a 93 on English!! Substitute in Spanish! I waved at Pat in math (she sits on my side) & Mr. Lousks saw me but didn’t say anything! P.E. basketball fun. No LAB!!! Read papers. Took a bath. Typed up History outline 13 p’s. Went to dentist. Got to study for English & History. Wish me luck!
Note: Being a substitute is a hard job but it gets easier once you get to know the students and especially their names. I am sure he thought nothing of me waving at Pat, but I worried I might get in trouble. I was a little bit of a goodie-two-shoe.
October 5, 1972 Thurs.
Dear Flowers:
Study hall in Spanish Substitute let us study. History test hard. I got a 90 on English Spelling Last period I helped Mrs. Currin in music class. 3d grade it was fun. Sold 2 tickets. Read magazine. Took bath. Studied or am trying to do science homework. Wish me luck on math test!!
BYE!!
Note: I loved Mrs. Currin. She was a wonderful music teacher and I believe at one time she had been a kindergarten teacher. Her son Woody was in my class. I remember he often sat behind me and was always drumming on his desk. It was hard for him to sit still.
I Love the picture of you Susan!
Scott L.
We had a subscription to the Miami Herald, and I definitely read the newspaper as well. Maybe not the news so much, but I did love the comics, the crypto quote and Anne Landers advice column! Speaking of libraries, remember the stand of newspapers on a rod, that we could read at school?
I love reading your blog every week!
Michelle B
As a kid just thought of newspapers as being for grownups - Dads in particular. My dad read two to three a day. In Mexico, The News (American) and Excélsior (Mexican). In Nicaragua he read both Las Novedades and La Prensa - they had politically opposite points of view - which to his credit Somoza allowed. Of course Dad read the Miami Herald Leader too.
In ninth grade I went from Managua to a prep school in N. Michigan - well what do you know? There, all the kids were required to get/read two newspapers a day. The Wall Street Journal and the Christian Science Monitor... and so started my own love of newspapers.
Love seeing Ms. Currin and remember…
As a teen, I couldn't care less about politics. Mom, being a history buff, kept up with it and I remember her always being critical of the unrest under the Somozan government, compared to the rather benign democracy of Costa Rica. Mainstream newspapers, typically conservative, were always being threatened and censored under dictatorships in L.A., and I suspect the Miami Herald, due to it's large Hispanic readership, was a good source of relatively unbiased L.A. news.
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