School 5

Overseas

Brick created on 23/08/2008 @ 18:56

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"Overseas must pursue his efforts in every domain and above all in his in class participation.
I am still convinced that he is perfectly able to succeed in his work.
On the matter of relations with his class mates everything is fine, he has succeeded to make himself a place in the group. Courage !"

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"After a marked improvement around January, I have the impression that Overseas is setting off again in his world and is sailing again towards his "secret planet". Too bad."

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I have very good memories of that man. Having him as a teacher during these two years was certainly a great relief for me. I know he tried as much as possible to help without becoming unfair with the others. I guess he saw, and perhaps new me before I arrived in his class.

During that 6th year, he gave for me as well as one or two other class mates additional courses between 11 and noon, as well as additional home work.

I remember too, that very frequently at the end of the breaks he came back at the same time as the Witch, and I was convinced they were talking about me.

During these two years, I was better treated by my classmates except once, when one afternoon, with four others we were the last in the changing-room and the teacher was already gone, they revenged of something that had happened during the day, but I can't remember it right now. I went home and my mother saw something was wrong. After learning what had happened, she called every parents to complain and informed the teacher of the situation. The next morning he made a brief remarks to the four concerned before the whole class, and they were forced to apologize.

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Then came the next stage of the obligatory school. A very different kind of school at a very critical time of the life - 12-15 (16).

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24/08/2008 @ 08:09 UMxx said

I have to ask Overseas, How are you feeling about disclosing these stories about your young life? Is it helping you to understand yourself or is it a way to soothe your memories and hurts or is it making the hurt worse. I am asking because I am wondering about what might be appropriate and inappropriate to offer as comments. I just want to offer support that's all
You know it just struck me that this is a little like a Michael Apted on a personal scale.
I very much like this teacher more than the witch.
UM xxx
24/08/2008 @ 13:42 Overseas said

You know UM, all these things are so much part of me that I didn't see them anymore. But not seeing them doesn't mean they have no impacts on me. It wasn't easy to remember some of these moments of my life. Some were even pretty painful, but if I want to move forward in my life I can only but know myself from top to bottom, and not just what fits my ego. No later than last night, I've watched some pictures of me from when I was a teenager as well as a young adult. I remember that during these years I was not comfortable with myself. I was as shy as it is possible to be. I wasn't well in my skin at all, I was very inhibited. And that's not just because of the Witch. She has had a treamendous effect on me, but school wasn't all my life...
24/08/2008 @ 13:55 UMxx said

No you are right - we are all so much of every experience and not just the memorable ones
I have felt since I was a little kid that I was always different - my sense was that I was an alien - and I would wait and look into the night sky waiting for my real family to come and take me home. What else could explain the feeling of not being like everyone else?
Perhaps with you the sense of having ill fitting skin happened well before the witch and she was the icing on the cake for those years?
Um xx