Thursday, April 22, 2004

Pre High School: Locker Memory
This isn't a high school memory at all, but it's a memory of school, and that qualifies... because I saw it does.

When I was in about 4th grade or so, the school added on another wing. This additional wing doubled the size of the school (or so) and was in construction for, probably a year or so. Around that time my classroom was very near where they were building this new addition - and for some reason at that time we had lockers that were out of our classroom. These lockers were positioned on each side of a fairly narrow hallway - so we had to contest with people on each side, people in back, as well as the dust and dirt from this new addition.

This arrangement was less than ideal (it was a fairly narrow hallway), but I remember it being extremely accelerating - we had outdoor lockers. Previously our lockers were inside our classrooms, but now we got to go out of the classroom to get our lunches, coats, whatever.

I haven't specifically looked for them lately, but I suspect that the lockers are long since gone. That section of the hallway I believe is the domain of the high schoolers, the lockers back in their respective rooms. I may be wrong however - I have no clue what's in that space now.