Before
High School
The
Bits and Pieces I’ve found of Childhood Memories
This was a field trip
we took from Golden West Junior High School (in California) when I was 12 years
old. I posed with the skeleton they had hanging in the Davis University
Library. It was the first human skeleton I had ever seen and I was
appropriately respectful. (*cough*).
When Dad was
cross-training to fly fighters instead of cargo planes, we lived at Luke AFB in
Arizona. This was my one excursion into getting my body pounded to pieces in
PeeWee Football. I was less than brilliant and decided to exercise my brain
instead of brawn since the latter didn’t seem to be a real option for me. Heh.
Later that year, the
family packed up and went to Thailand when my Dad was stationed at Korat flying
F4 Phantoms. This is my passport picture then. Thailand was the most exciting
time of my childhood. The experiences we had there really broadened my horizons
and made me realize the world is a much bigger place than most people expect.
When we came back to
the States, we ended up at Travis AFB again. That was when I joined the Swim
Team, the Travis Flyers. I was terrible at sprint events, but found my stride
doing long-distance swims like the 500m Freestyle and the 200m Butterfly. Very
hard events, but I placed pretty high in them.