A Conversation of 1991-1992

• Eliza
  

  • no, they built a new elementary right next door to the old one 3 years ago
  • the old school is being rented by a church
• Michael Lopez

  • I went to school there like 20 years ago.
• Eliza
  

  • really? lol, which teachers did you have? A lot of them are still there
• Michael Lopez

  • Young and Spears
  • they were both young they might have gotten married by now.
• Eliza

  • Spears retired 2 years ago
• Michael Lopez

  • omg are you serious.
• Eliza

  • she was divorced I think
  • I don't know a Mrs. Young
• Michael Lopez

  • How old is she?
• Eliza

  • yeah, lol, she taught 2nd grade
  • I dunno...50s?
• Michael Lopez

  • Holy crap. She was kinda hot when I was there.
• Eliza

  • I didn't know her that well, she worked at the other building before I started traveling, so I only knew her from district-wide meetings
  • hahaha
  • ummm...yeah.
• Michael Lopez

  • Young got pregnant during my school year and took the whole year off, so if she didn't come back at all it wouldn't surprise me.
  • All year I had a sub named ms. Berry
  • and she was shaped like a berry.
  • lol, that is how I remember her name.
  • And the assistant principal openly chewed tobacco in his office.  That big block stuff with the star on it.  Like totally out of Bluto's mouth in a disney cartoon.
• Eliza

  • omg!
  • yeah, there used to be a policy that you couldn't teach while prego
• Michael Lopez

  • We had a computer room upstairs that was full of old mac's that only ran number munchers and took real floppy disks.
• Eliza

  • the computer lab was on the 2nd floor when it closed, probably the same room
• Michael Lopez

  • yeah probably, the assistant principals office may have been up there somewhere.
• Eliza

  • lol
• Michael Lopez

  • Our music teacher was Mr. Feablecorn or something like that.
• Eliza

  • hahaha
  • that's a funny name
• Michael Lopez

  • he was in his forties so I'm sure he is long gone.
• Eliza

  • all the electives teachers are relatively young
  • Mrs. Graham is maybe the only one you would have had...she teaches art
• Michael Lopez

  • Our gym teacher was raging butch lesbo.
• Eliza

  • lol
• Michael Lopez

  • And Jump Rope For Heart started while I went to school there.
• Eliza

  • we have 2 pe teachers now, a young guy that if I was single and he was single I'd totally crush on. And a woman who is this little bouncy, perky thing with a husband and 4 kids
• Michael Lopez

  • I remember this bigger kid fell on the bleachers, which were made of wood at the time, in the gym/cafeteria. He landed on his eye. I don't think he was able ever to see out of it again.
• Eliza

  • wow
  • they're still wood btw
• Michael Lopez

  • Music was in the basement. It was like a fall out shelter down there.
• Eliza

  • lol, yeah that basement is scary
  • black mold and brown recluse spiders...that's why it closed
  • it kept failing inspections
• Michael Lopez

  • I remember after you walk in and pass the gym you could keep walking into the "new" wing or turn right and head into the basement.
• Eliza

  • yup
  • and go down the ramp to the new wing
• Michael Lopez

  • Anyway there was a little nook there between the basement entrance and the ramp. Hurricane Andrew had just hit and we started collecting food and toiletries to ship down there. I remember that nook constantly being stuffed with shit. It was like they couldn't ship it out fast enough.
• Michael Lopez

  • Or I was little and everything seems bigger when you are little.
• Eliza

  • lol
• Michael Lopez

  • At the end of the new wing about twenty feet away there was a tornado siren. When that thing went off for drills it would shake the building. Also, we did fallout drills where we would huddle under our desk and wait to be vaporized
• Eliza

  • seriously? OMG

• Michael Lopez

  • I think that was the last building I ever did that in. The Cold war had been over for a while.
  • Yeah, that was my second and third grade.
• Eliza

  • I never did a fall out drill. That's crazy!
  • I'll have to find a yearbook....
  • we have archives
  • what year would that be...
• Michael Lopez

  • O I remember New Kids On The Block was just getting popular too. I didn't like them back then either.
• Eliza

  • let's see...you're 26?
• Michael Lopez

  • 27
• Michael Lopez

  • Well Hurricane Andrew was 92
• Eliza

  • okay, so 1992-93
• Michael Lopez

  • After 3rd grade I went back to Edwardsville
• Eliza

  • lol, I'll try to scan it and send it to you
  • Mrs. Young and Mrs. Spears
• Michael Lopez

  • That would be crazy. After my parents got divorced I lost everything. I don't have anything from really before middle school.
  • Yeah I thought spears was my 3rd grade teacher but I could be wrong.
  • so that should be 91-92 and 92-93
• Eliza

  • I'll check for you