Tasksheet 1: Exercise 14 and 27

In thinking about past childhood memories of someone who can invoke strong feelings in me, one person inparticular came to mind. I went to school with this person from preschool till grade 6. He was a class loud mouth, almost like a trouble maker. He liked to instigate problems and talk out in class. On the playground he would bully us, trying to make out playtime unpleasant. I vividly remember this one time when he sat at the end of a "tube" slide on the playset and blocked it so no one else could go down. This person was overweight for a child his age and tried to do things to gross people out.

This person still attends the church I go to and his mom was a teacher at the school my mom worked at so I still had some connection with him as I grew older. Now he is a computer whiz, building his own computers and fixing them for others. He enjoys working with the latest and greatest technology. If I look back at my elementary school days with this person in my class I can now see that he may have possibly acted out in class due to boredom.

If I had to imagine what I would find in this person's refridgerator I would guess lunch meat, pop, ice cream, steak, hambergers, and much more. In his car trunk I would envision computer parts, tools, and computer manuals. In his closet you may find much of the same plus legos, video game equipment, video camcorders, digital cameras, etc.

In doing these exercises I have learned that my perspective on this character has changed over time. I also found that I really do not know alot about this person and his interests or hobbies. In elementary school I made a lot of assumptions about him based on his personality and outbursts in class. I was surprised at some of the vivid details that I remember during the encounters that I did have with this person.