What's Left

What's Left
My Knowledge Base is Fading Fast
Merion Mercy Academy
1967-1973

There isn't much left in my pea brain of what I learned in high school.

I'm  on the right, pretending to be studying.

• French- I didn't learn a whole lot in high school so it was easy to forget this little bit. I know RSVP.  I can repeat the first 7 slides of the first lesson in French in 7th grade.  I can say Merci.  I can ask where is the toilet but I can not understand any answer that is given to me.
• Latin- I know that the framer, the sailor and the poet all end in 1st case feminine; all other first case nouns are masculine.  I don't remember what constitutes first case.
• Geometry- side equals side equals side is the only rule I remember about this dreadful subject matter.  I do remember that we were introduced to theorems but I don't remember any of them.
• Biology- I remember learning about parts of the flower and how pollination works.  I remember there is a stem but that's about it. We dissect a grasshopper and mine was hollow.  The smart kids got to dissect a baby pig.
• Gym class- I never again got on a dolly and slid across the floor, or wacked a little yellow ball. I've never played field hockey, basketball  or softball again.
• Algebra- it wasn't until I was in my 30's that I realized 2x+y=z means two movie tickets and one bag of popcorn is how much movie you need to go the movies.
• English- I did one literal analysis in my freshmen year in college but that was it.  I did read the Great Gatsby again because I thought it was a fantastic book in high school  As an older women, it seems do damn shallow to me.
• Music- I took HAM (History of Art and Music).  I remember listening to the intro to Pictures at an Exhibition and the intro the The Great March in to Kiev. But I can no longer remember which piece is which.
• Geography- Whatever happened to Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Rwanda, Burma, the USSR and all of those other countries that have disappeared from all of the textbooks.  Fortunes, I still have my 40 year old globe so I can still look them up.
• Government- I was taught that we had a constitution but I didn't bother to try to understand it. Nor did I fully understand the three branches of government.
• Typing- I can still type but spend and accuracy are not strong points.