Random Middle School Memories

This Spring Break has been fun so far.  Good mix of work, family/friends, and pokemon YES!  Anyways coming back to Millbrae makes me think back on middle/high school memories (although I guess I forgot a lot since I don’t know who Kevin and Daniel are always talking about – my memory sucks).

1) My first girlfriend ever was in the 6th grade.  Noah asked out a girl named Terry for me.  I didn’t even know who she was.  I don’t know why Noah did that.  I think we went out for like a month.

2) One day in 7th grade Jonathan ran up the hill at Taylor and ran straight for me.  He ran into me and launched me in the air and I fell onto the ground.  When I got up I socked him in the face.  This random Mexican 8th grader that saw gave me a high five.  That is the only time I ever punched anyone in my life.

3) Kevin gave me the nickname Po in 6th/7th grade because he though my middle name was Po.  I don’t remember why, but everyone called me John Po Lee for the rest of middle school.

4) I was the starting Center for my basketball team in 8th grade.  How the mighty have fallen.

5) I had this one tutor for math from UC Berkeley.  I was really mad and tired one day when she came so I called my mom saying if we could cancel.  The tutor heard me I guess.  She was like “If you don’t want me hear I’m leaving.”  She left.  I remember her because she had a lot of armpit hair.  I remember I didn’t feel bad.  I just went to my room to play Counter-Strike.

6) Brian shat his pants in class and I didn’t even know until like the end of high school.

7) I played the flute.  I hated it.  So I rebelled by also playing clarinet, alto saxophone, timpani, bass drum, and xylophone.  I had a lot of fun in band.  I think I was the music teachers favorite student.  When I told him that I wasn’t doing band in high school, he stared at me, told me he was going to pretend that he didn’t hear that, and continued on with his business.

8) When we went to Anaheim for band (8th grade I think), we were at the hotel and I guess I said something to Brian Madriaga that made him mad.  He punched me in the stomach.  I lost my breath and was kneeling on the ground for a few minutes.  That is the only time that I have every been punched in my life.

9) Noah fought Austin at one of my birthday parties.  Then Brian fought Austin a year later(not sure if this was during middle school).  Brian ended up breaking his wrist and had to wear a cast for a few weeks.  I don’t think Austin ever came to my birthday parties ever again.

10) I had five girlfriends in middle school.  Two in high school.  Zero in college.  I think I need to resort back to the tactics I used in middle school.  Just have my friends ask out the girls for me.  Hug them once a day.  Talk to them on the phone for 30 minutes.  And then have their younger friend call me to break up with me (one of them ended that way). Sweet deal.

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