Friday 5

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Learning

1. How and when did you learn to swim?

   I had to pass a swimming test to graduate from high school which meant swiming a length of the pool. I was going to graduate as one of the top 5 students in my class and they had to pass me, so they let me face-float and flail my way across the short length of the pool. I still can't really swim. But I will always be grateful to Beth, who patiently worked with me to teach me the bare minimum.

2. How and when did you learn to drive?

   I took Driver's Ed when I was 15, and I had about 30 seconds of driving with a (very very creepy) instructor. Really, my dad taught me to drive for all intents and purposes.

3. How and when did you learn to tie your shoelaces?

   I was in preschool (Maggie Martin) and Could NOT figure them out...and then suddenly I could. I just remember spending hours on it, watched by some boy I now know had a crush on me. At the time, I was just annoyed that he wouldn't go away so I could sort out this complicated shoe-tying thing!!

4. How and when did you learn to cook?

   Define "cook." I don't think I'm a great cook now, but I can find my way around a kitchen. As a child, I had a couple of cookbooks, and I remember being all excited about making homemade pancakes and waffles for breakfast on Sunday mornings a few times. I've made homemade cakes since I was about 10, and cookies. Mom taught me the basics of potato peeling and food prep. It's just sort of something I learned to do as a matter of course, I guess.

5. How and when did you learn to type?

   I took typing my sophomore year in high school, but I'd been doing the hunt-and-peck thing before that for awhile. I rocked the typing class and never looked back. ;-) It motivated me to know that my mom could type about 75 wpm error-free at work. Who, me? Competitive?? hah