Tag I'm IT

Here's the rules for those I'm tagging. Check the list after my 6 THINGS to see if you're it and then:

1. Link to the person who tagged you.

2. Post the rules on your blog.

.3. Write six random things about yourself.

4. Tag six-ish people at the end of your post. Sorry, I only have one!!

5. Let each person know he or she has been tagged.

6. Let the tagger know when your entry is up.


Okay, six random things.

I. I grew up in the midst of boys....My dad was the Camp Ranger at Camp Tonkawa, a mile from Abilene State Park. Each day after school, I had 200 acres to roam, and get to know myself. In the summers, the place was overrun with Boy Scouts. This was back in the day when the 'cool' kids were in Scouts. I have 'brothers' all over the world, who I dearly love....would have NEVER dated, but love like family. We are having a reunion on the 18th, and I am more excited about seeing them, than I was at getting married 25 years ago...HA!

II. I graduated from Jim Ned High School, when it was a podunk little school. (Before all the rich blonde ladies driving suburbans decided it would be THE place to live) We had 42 in my graduating class, which was the largest yet.

III. My major at McMurry was Recreation. Yes, you heard it right...Having fun!! Started as a business major, was undecided for two years, then decided on Recreation. After we graduated in 79, they closed the major, and McMurry no longer has it. ????

IV. I worked in Recreation, following graduation as a District Executive for the Boy Scouts in Odessa, Tx. This involved planning programs, recruiting leaders and scouts, working at summer camp in the Davis Mountains, between Balmorhea and Fort Davis. Later, I was a Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist at Physicians and Surgeons Hospital in Shreveport, LA, and Woods Psychiatric Institute in Abilene, TX. Yepper, it was fun!!

V. I went through the Alternative Certification Program for Special Ed teachers following my divorce in 1983. Taught back at Woods Psychiatric for AISD until Woods closed. Then, AISD "made a new class for me" at Clack Middle School. It was the Behavior Adjustment Class...oh joy! This was for students who couldn't behave in regular classes. They either cussed out the teacher, fought, were on probation, or were otherwise a hellion. Yes, it was MUCH more dangerous than teaching at Woods. At Woods, we had a 'bouncer' in the hallway, who could hear by my tone of voice, that it was time for him to come into the classroom and take a student out, or restrain him. The first year at Clack was the worst of my life...(outside of my marriage) I didn't have a planning period, no lunch without students, constant turmoil. I started with 6 students in the 8th grade office, with an aide, who was not at school for the first two weeks. (She was hospitalized for anxiety and depression) Five of those first students are now housed by the government in various prisons around the state. The sixth committed suicide in high school. Only by the grace of God and His love, did I survive that first year.

VI. I have supported McMurry Men's basketball for many years. The coach is a dear friend, like a brother, and is also the one who will take care of things when I am gone. (executor of will) For every home game for the past 15 years, (and during my four years at McMurry!) I make cookies for those guys. When my sons were younger, we also hit the road and followed them to many games....Georgetown, San Antonio, Brownwood, Belton, Mississippi, Kerrville....

Okay, your turn.... problem is...I only have two friends with blogs, and one of them sent this to me....

http://trinalou.blogspot.com/

So TRINA, go for it!!