My diary -September 18-20, 1972
- Susan Fisch Good
- Apr 24
- 2 min read
Updated: Jun 13
September 18, 1972 Mon.
Dear Flowers:
School!!! I was so tired in school today. Mrs. Tablada yelled at me & by mistake I go I wasn't talking this sec. Uh!! Gross! We had a P.E. test. I read on “Friday’s Child.” Pat came over. She played on the piano. Talked. I watched T.V. Did homework.
Got to study.
BYE!!
Note: My mouth always got me in trouble. Mom always said to think before you speak. I apparently wasn’t following her instructions.
September 19, 1972 Tues.
Dear Flowers:
I got an 85 on Lab report highest grade. Were going to have a Matinee (our class). “Easy Rider” & “Taste of Blood of Dracula.” Worked in library. Played tennis. Teacher didn’t come because he was bruised up in car choque yesterday. Swam. Had fun. Played Battleships & Submarines. Lauren was over. Talked to Pat. Got to study for science & Spanish. Wish me luck.
BYE!
Note: I am not sure how the matinee worked; we saw it after class at school or went to the cinema? Pretty brave of teachers offering to show us those two movies. I’m not sure it ever came to be as I have no recollection of either movie.
Choque is a crash. I was using Spanglish!
September 20, 1972 Wed.
Dear Flowers:
Hard, Hard Science test!!!! Spanish test canceled till tomrrow. No Lab HURRAH. I finally finished “Friday Child” It was so good. I watched Esmeralda. She can see!!! I read on “Tippy Lockilin.” Funny. Watched T.V. Got to study for Spanish.
BYE!!
Note: Written in 1944, Friday’s Child was a favorite of author Georgette Heyer, who was known for historical romances. She was born in 1902 and died in 1974. This story is about a man and woman who marry out of convenience, their struggles and eventually falling in love.
Esmeralda was a Venezuelan telenovela (soap opera) about a wealthy family whose long awaited baby was born a girl and believed to be dead. The father was obsessed with having a male heir; the nanny and midwife exchanged the baby with a village boy born around the same time whose mother died in childbirth. The midwife was given emerald earrings to remain quiet. The baby girl turned out not to be dead but blind and the midwife raised her.
Susie - love the way you were so engaged and dramatic about your school classes!
Oh yes, Easy Rider - think it came out about '68 was at LSU as a quasi hippie - liked it at the time. Did not know it was a version of On The Road - which I read twice, found it aimless each time.
At about 8-years old living in Mexico City an American family took me to see Dracula - waaaay too scary then and now - do not like gore! Of course I was the 6-year old that ran out of the Wizard of Oz when the Witch flew across the screen withoug a visiable cable...
Spanglish - is there any other…
Love the Spanglish "car choque" I read it twice before I realized that is what it was! Good I took my multivitamin before reading - you were busy all the time even on school afternoons 😉
You're early this week!
Dad, ever the engineer, always said "put your brain in gear before putting your mouth in motion".
Can't speak to the horror film, was never into the genre, but Easy Rider? No way a school, especially back then, would sanction that R-rated film, or even the cleaned up TV version. It was a "modernized" version of Jack Kerouac's "On The Road", (which having read recently, thought didn't age well). Of course, wanting to "fit in" with my 18-year-old buddies, I thought it was a great movie at the time. Saw it decades later, and thought, jeez, what a depressing movie, hell of an ending.
I think telenovelas were more popular, as a genre, in L.A. than…
Very cool to get to see movies with your school. I know I saw Easy Rider but I can’t say I recall what it was about. I would have seen in on television years after its release.