Black Diamond - Senior Stories 1

Black Diamond - Senior Stories 1

The school that I went to, myself, was a one room school and we have seven-eight grades in the same room. Sometimes we missed a grade, like there would not have been a grade two class that year, or whatever. But we had about thirteen to fifteen students in the class, and they ranged from grade one to about grade eight. I rode horseback to school. So I had to get up and do my chores, which meant milking a cow before I left for school, and probably feeding the chickens, doing a bit with that and coming in and having breakfast, and helping my mother make lunch for four of us. Then we got on our horses and we rode a little over two miles. My dad wouldn t let us go when it was minus ten Fahrenheit, which is about minus twenty or more. He wouldn t let us go, it was too cold for us to ride that far. All of the kids that came to the school rode horse back. So we had a horse pasture around the school, and all of the horses just grazed the grass in the school yard.

 

Did you use paper or a slate when you were a student ?

 

We used paper, but we didn t have a zerox machine. No, We didn't have any photocopying or any zerox. You know what our teacher used, was a tray of, it was kind of like a jelly. And you printed in a certain kind of ink, and you d put that paper down on the jelly, and the ink would go into the jelly. Then the teacher could take the piece of paper and put it on that jelly and take off a copy. She could take off several copies from that. It was a pretty slow process, but that s how we made copies when I went to school.