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[lightupthesky]

currently training the kids for the upcoming english speech contest. i have very very poor memorization skills. most of the time if anything is going to be retained by my mind it'll happen once i can understand the thing and its connection to other things. ie. i have to be able to get to information through rethinking it up. whereas some people can

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[may_fly]

Twas brillig and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe
All mimsy were the borogroves
And the mome wraths outgrabe

Beware the jabberwock, my son
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch
Beware the jub jub bird and shun
The frumious bandersnatch...

Ninth grade. Introduction to speech. You got to pick your monologue or poem to memorize..

[lightupthesky]

oddly enough i had my brother bring me a copy of alice's adv. in wonderland and through the looking glass when he came out to visit. i have not read it, but suffice to say it is next on the reading list now.

[zwanderlust1]

Oddly enough, I also have been unable to forget the first 18 lines of Canterbury tales. Sometimes I think it's the only thing I took with me from high school.

[lightupthesky]

it's all too simple to think that's the only thing you took from high school, but i could certainly understand the allure. it's hard for me to really put a finger on what happened in high school, too. i have this memory of prepping the metal ME (i went to maine east) for the homecoming game. it was tradition to burn the ME at half time. we soaked a bunch of pads in kerosene and then twined them in gauze around the metal. i have no idea how i was volunteered for that. in fact a lot of my h.s. memories have to do with mud fights during soccer practice and the smell of developer in the dark room. i have no idea what i learned, but i think i learned something.