What was my favorite subject in school?

Hmm…

I can only say my best subject was math but is it my favorite? Nah, that was hard work, not fun work, even though I did sometimes enjoy it.

I’ve always thought math was one of the easiest subject in school, easier than English literature and history and science. Well, I shouldn’t say all math. Geometry always stumped me with all those proof questions. What’s there to prove?

I liked trigonometry though. That was back to numbers and calculations, back to my realm of no-gray zone. Is that part of geometry? Part of me thought so but now, I’m not so sure.

I liked all the fun classes in school like computer classes where I got to make a movie with Adobe Flash. That was almost 20 years ago. If you ask me to use Adobe Flash now, I wouldn’t know how. It’s changed quite a bit, just like Photoshop (which I’m still learning) and Lightroom.

I don’t think I truly liked school until I began my second semester of Freshman high school in Texas. Back in California, I could’ve never gotten into the fun electives like Home economics, computer design, piano, and even choir (forget it!). I always got stuck in the classes that I didn’t want like art, just because my school adviser saw on my transcript that I’ve taken art in middle school. Come on! Why couldn’t they see that I can’t draw even if my life depended on it?

I guess they were just focusing on the good grades when they (whoever they were) placed me in advanced level drawing, where we spent the first month learning to draw blind (without looking at the canvas). I can barely draw when I’m looking at the page. I failed miserably in that endeavor. When I got to the school in Texas, I told the school adviser, “You can put me in whichever elective you want, just don’t put me in art.”

She made me choose instead and it was then I chose some of my favorite classes – choir and home economics.

When it comes down to it, the subject I remember the most and the subject where I have the best memories has to be… home economics. I wish I had one more semester of that but unfortunately I wasn’t at this school the previous semester. It was truly one of my all-time favorite classes.

We learned to cook. We learned to sew and make clothes. We watched a lot of Julia Child’s black and white TV shows on VHS. I remember learning to make blueberry muffins and quiche, that was yummy. 😋

This was the place where I fell in love with food and cooking and baking. It was where I bonded with my step-grandmother because she also loved to sew. Of course, it was the place where I diverged from my mom because she hated those things and didn’t understand why I loved it, even to this day.