Munchausen
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- Joined
- Apr 12, 2010
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I went to a small school, just grades 11 and 12 (we had an all girls and an all boys school doing 8-10 that fed into our school), with around 200 students all up, so it wasn’t difficult. We may have stayed after school sometimes, but rarely.@penguin, your time management skills must've been better than the ones at my school.There's no way we would've got a yearbook done meeting once a week.
I was assistant director, so I didn’t have to worry about thatWas it easy for you to perform in front of people? I admire people that put themselves through that. I would not enjoy it.
My voice just gradually dropped in pitch during my teenage years. I don't think that you can change your basic range with training but you can extend the range a little with training.@Shotha, did all that change come naturally, or did you have to (can you) train to change your voice?
@Tracyarts, did they say why height was restricted on the dance team? No reason immediately comes to mind in the same way that I can rationalize height restrictions for jockeys and pilots.
Whoa. That's wild. And the clone thing is a little icky feeling. Girls have got it rough.It was common for highly competitive schools to require the girls on the drill/kick/dance team to have a very consistent appearance in line-up. If you were too tall or too short, you would stand out too much. The height restriction was 5'4-5'8". I was 5'11". The first school I went to wasn't very competitive, any girl could be on the team if she could do the required dance moves. I remember seeing teams at competitions from very large schools, where the girls looked like clones. Down to hairstyles.
I saw FFA and all I read was Female Fat Admirer hehe.I was a future farmer of america. One of my main motivations in joining it was not to make my dad happy (which it did) but I knew the FFA was always going on trips, getting out of other classes, holding barbecues and having snacks in class, going on lots of field trips, and having lots of contests, which we would go to in the school van and often stop to eat and our meals were sometimes paid for by the club. I was quite good at the agronomy contest in identifying bugs and seeds and weeds. I hated school and welcomed any chance for a diversion...the FFA helped me really slack off!!!