When I was in Grade 3 things were?

[Muck308 55]

My buddy "taught" me and 2 other friends how to sail once. The next day we crewed this, I don't know... 25-30 foot sailboat in a race. We capsized.

When the boat went over I fell onto the mast, then my buddy fell on me, knocking me into the frigid water. Mind you it was June, but still quite cold on that rainy day. This of course wasn't in 3rd grade but right after I graduated from high school.

[Jay Ess 15]

2004-2005. 3rd Grade was arguably one of the best years of my life. We just finished putting the addition on the house, we lived in a very nice city, and school was going well for me.

4th grade was the bad news - my parents drew my sister and I out of the house with no knowledge of the divorce whatsoever. We moved in 2005 to a house that still needs major work to finish renovations. The neighborhood kids are thugs and hillbillies and there's never anything to do. I gotta thank god for my family, friends and pets, or I'd go crazy :\

[hamsterTK 93]

1995-1996. We lived in a suburb of Houston.

I remember playing YMCA youth league sports and going swimming a lot at the pool after I learned how that summer. I could ride my bike all around the subdivision.

At my friends house we would stay up late playing video games(Super Nintendo) and watch stuff we weren't supposed to on TV, like Beavis and Butthead but also obviously I remember watching the original Nickleodeon cartoons,etc.

That was the year the movie Twister came out and I totally wanted to be a storm chaser when I grew up. Lol.

Our family's first PC. No modem and so no internet(though we always got those stupid AOL floppy junk mailers tossed on our driveway). But it did have Simcity 2000!

I had the most friends at any point in my childhood and because of the suburb where we lived being home to major oil company headquarters, my friends were from a variety of backgrounds. One was Colombian, and his mom would kiss me, which I thought was odd but I suspect that's the culture there or something.

The school labeled me as ADHD, I took ritalin and went to psychiatrists in some futile effort to make me less of a little butt. The doctor's office was in central Houston, in the Montrose district, and I remember the ironic joy of getting pulled from class at 12:00 am to drive down into the city and have a chat with the shrink on why I misbehaved in school...

[Meastro444 1]

What age is the 3rd grade?

[astronelson 339]

Meastro444: Between 7 and 9, I think, depending on country/state.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Originally posted by: Muck308

My buddy "taught" me and 2 other friends how to sail once. The next day we crewed this, I don't know... 25-30 foot sailboat in a race. We capsized.

When the boat went over I fell onto the mast, then my buddy fell on me, knocking me into the frigid water. Mind you it was June, but still quite cold on that rainy day. This of course wasn't in 3rd grade but right after I graduated from high school.quote>

Here's a quote from Barret's Privateers for you to show how lucky you were:

"Barret was smashed like a bowl of eggs

"And the main truck took off both me legs."

Sailing is not for the faint of heart, and you know why we put such heavy emphasis on safety afloat.

 

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Meastro:  If you started school at age 6, which is usual over here, you would be 8 in grade 3.