I
was born July 2, 1972 in Panorama City, CA. I went to Andasol
elementary school for kindergarten. There were two kindergarten
classes, one for older kids and one for younger kids. I was in the
one for younger kids. For some reason, they wanted to put one of
the students from the younger kids class into the older kids class.
So, they decided to give everybody in the younger kids class a test
and put whoever scored the highest in the older kids class. That
was me. In the older kids’ class, I was a better reader than
everyone else so they gave me my own personal TA. After
kindergarten, they were going to bus me to Pacoima. So, my parents
put me in private school, where I stayed through 4th grade.
I
returned to Andasol in 5th grade. In 5th grade, I fought wars, sang
songs about bombing and got in trouble in class. Fighting wars
meant calling people names for days.
Each
person represented a country and the person's name calling ability
determined the country's military power. I even had a ranking
system. I used the DefCon system from the movie War Games to
determine when to go to war. In 5th grade I was in a special class
for gifted students that met once a week. In 6th grade, I continued
fighting wars and getting in trouble in class. I got sent outside 5
times in one day in 6th grade, a class record that
was never broken. I was in the special class in 6th grade too. In
6th grade I was obsessed with the firebombing of Dresden. I sang
songs about it. In 5th and especially 6th grade I had influence on
people. They acted like me and even shared my interests. When the
teacher assigned country reports in 6th grade, she made a one person
per country rule because she was afraid the whole class would do
Germany
if she didn't. I graduated from elementary school in 1984. After
elementary school I went to junior high, high school and college.
I've visited 27 countries.
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