• 「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」@sh.itjust.works
      14·
      1 day ago

      Okay I know this is c/greentext and its not a serious comm, still just wanna infodump lol:

      So… in 1st grade I was in China…

      I remember them doing National Anthem… very similar to the US lol (as in the ritual, not the melody lol)

      They use rulers to hit kids lol… 😭

      I lucked out because my family emigrated…

      Forgot if I ever got hit by a teacher… if I did, I must’ve deleted that memory since it sounds kinda traumatizing…

      And they made us RECITE AN ENTIRE STORY! (Children’s story, but still) They made us stay afterschool for that 😭

      I STILL REMEMBER the 9x9 times table “poem” thingy from first grade, it’s forever burned into my head (okay this might be 2nd grade tbf, forgot when I learned it exactly)

      Article I found: https://yoyochinese.com/blog/Learn-Chinese-Multiplication-Rhyme-Time-Tables)

      Oh yes I can sing the Chinese national anthem¹ + the American one too…

      they played it too much the melody is forever stored in my hippocampus

      (¹Okay I might have looked up the exact lyrics later on as a teen…)

      And if I sing both, I get both sides to hate me… xD

      I feel like that kindergarden, 1st, 2nd grade… just those few years of school there makes me very distinct from ABCs (American-Born Chinese).

    • binarytobis@lemmy.world
      1·
      14 hours ago

      I remember cutting my hair with crayola scissors to get it out of my eyes, and some nondescript amorphous blob of a teacher freaking out about it.

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      17 hours ago

      i remember the 3-4 times i got in trouble and had to go to the principal’s office. that’s about it

      almost everytime it was for me giving a presentation that upset the teacher/class because it was too adult or something.

      • ikt@aussie.zone
        9·
        1 day ago

        what are you thinking remembering back that far? you’ll run out of memory