MY FIRST SCHOOL DAY - April 2, 1952
MY VERY FIRST SCHOOL DAY - April 2, 1952: Today ( April 2, 2021 ) it is exactly 69 – sixtynine – years ago, since I started going to school. This is a long time ago. It was in 1952. But I still remember it, as if it were yesterday. Can you understand that ? It was a wonderful, sunny morning. I had for such a long time been looking forward to going to school. Ok, I could already read and I could also write reasonably. But I wanted to learn much more. And quickly! I knew that we were 4 kids in our village, who should start that day. Two girls and two boys. I knew the other three well. Remember, we lived in a small country village, where everybody knew everybody. The first school day was always sort of a party to us. Our parents came along to the school on that first day. And we all had put our nicest clothes on, of course. Our farm was about 1 ½ km from the school. We walked there, my parents and I. On the way I could...