The smell of new books, the suitcase, the lead when sharpening the pencils, and opening the lunchbox containing sandwiches made by Mom. Those are the things that I fondly remember.
Especially the smell of that brand-new, hard, brown rectangular suitcase. The brand-new black pinafore and blazer, with a beret covering my head, added to the excitement.
I was very excited about starting school, not afraid at all! It was definitely my parents' positive outlook that made me feel school was going to be good, and it was!
It was a long time ago - 1960, so no surprise that I don't remember too many things besides those smells, and the fact that we lived quite close to school.
Mom used to walk with me till my second year, when I could walk with my new school friends who lived quite close to us.
The prompt for the Silver Bloggers Chronicles Week #32 is:
What do you remember feeling on your first day of school?
I cannot remember if we had a tuck shop back then to buy juices, potato crisps and candy. It was 1960, forgot I already said so! Yes, too long ago to remember small details like that! I do know that I was always excited when I had enough pocket money to buy treats from the school tuckshop later on.
Sandwiches were mostly peanut butter and syrup, or my favourite leftover cottage pie or curry from the night before. Not like the lunchboxes I made for students who stayed in my BnB, in my previous life:)
I liked peanut butter sandwiches, still do! I never liked egg-mayo sandwiches because my lunchbox stank when I opened it on the playground, and everyone would close their noses and make a big stink;) laughing and pretending they're running away. They tasted good once you started eating them, but I told Mom not to give me egg-mayo again. Not that it stopped altogether, as I still got the occasional one when there was nothing else to put on.
We used to exchange sandwiches, and some of my friends liked mine because it was made with Mom's homemade bread. Mom used to make pies and crumpets, and those were real treats which I would have to share with a friend.
I was supposed to tell you more about my first day at school, and here I got carried away by...food! Of course, those were things that came later on.
I was quite shy as a child, and knew no one in this big world called School, but I remember I enjoyed meeting all these new kids in my class. I cannot remember our teacher, but she must have been kind because I only have good memories from that first year.
That first day at school for sure paved the way to many happy years of learning, and later on in the workplace!
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