I didn't finish 2 years early. Because my birthday is in January, my mom had a choice as to whether to send me to kindergarten at 4 or 5. Since I could already read, she sent me at 4, so I started a little early. Then, when I was in 2nd grade, there were a lot of kids, so they stuck some of us in the 3rd grade room. I and 2 other kids apparently ended up doing some of the 3rd grade work, so they offered to let us skip 3rd grade. I was bored so mom let me; the other parents didn't because they were afraid of messing their kids up socially or something. So, I lost my only 2 friends (we were still in school together, we just didn't have the chance to see each other) and moved into a class with kids 1-2 years older than me. And ended up being 16 when I graduated high school. I ain't that smart.
Similar situation, my birthday is in August. My parents had a choice of sending me to kindergarten early or wait a year. They chose to wait a year. I was eighteen way before any of my classmates. I was probably better off for it.
You're sweet. That's one of those multiverse things. If my life had been different due to age or graduation year, I might not have had The Pivotal Moment of My Life - meeting a bunch of loonies at ASU in 1984 called Friends of Doctor Who. Every person I love is in my life because of that moment when I introduced myself to them. I'm good with that.
i'm born nov, 16 - i went to school at the age of five and i couldn't read then. i went to kindergarten (<- german aka correct spelling) at three (nearly 4), though and i thought that sister (it was a catholic kintergarten) was messing with me on my first day there (that's actually the first recollection of my life i'm sure of) she lifted her left hand to pray with us to her god and said 'let's all lift our right hand' (after that we were supossed to put the left hand to the right) and i thought 'are you kidding me, that's your left hand?'
exactly the other way round for me until university (there's only one catholic university left and i certainly wasn't there). i became an altharboy later but in the end sister helga defined my relationship with the holy mother church once and for all - i'm an agnostic now i'm absolutily sure sister helga was from the mirror universe
I went to Cattholic school kindergarten through grammar school. I'll say one thing about Catholic school - I didn`t need to take a book home the first two years of public hign school except for chemistry. Those mirror-universe nuns had pounded it all into me except for higher levels of math and science.
I met one of my closest friends in second grade. We've been together 40+ years. Even though she lives half a country away, we still call each other when we can and pick up where we left off.
I posted this in the "What religion/faith are you?" thread, but I'll repeat it here... It wasn't until my stepmother's funeral a few months ago that I learned, Catholics don't say all of the Lord's Prayer. They stop at the part about "deliver us from evil". They don't say the last bit - "For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever, Amen." Kind of blew my mind, to be honest. (my dad and I are Lutheran, but my stepmom came from a Catholic family)
That's wonderful! Growing up Catholic, it was a shock the first time I stopped and others kept going!
it's the same and i typed it the wrong way*: catholic is vater unser - lutheran is unser vater pater noster (the latin version) is what catholics had for centuries so they kept it noun first, adjective second the last lines are also only in in the ecumenical version (got that wrong, too**) but that what i usually hear when i sneak into a church's last row here and then (it does still calm me down in a certain way) --- * that's why i deleted it - wanted to make a new post but you were too fast ** note to self: don't post when not fully awake