Childhood
seems to be the happiest, and according to me quite crazy, period of
life. Time of many discovers and naive attempts of understanding the world.
Recently I had a great opportunity of coming back to those memories.
When I was
going back to my hometown for a weekend I’ve met my primary school friend. We
haven’t seen each for a long time so our journey from Poznań to Zielona Góra
became also a time travel to the period of our childhood. Among many events and
funny situations we were also remembering our common participation in something
called “Poczet sztandarowy”. It was quite ungrateful role, because we had to
take part in every school event like school’s
appeals and reunions. We were holding the school flag pretending we have very
significant role to play. It was extremely boring activity but it also had its advantages – we could miss the classes and our
extra obligations justified our absences.
What’s more, after some time we had realized nobody was checking us so we could
skip many school hours by just telling we had had to practise or take part in
some event. It’s hard to say but we used to use this excuse quite often (and time
designated for our education we were devoting to hanging out and eating chips).
I remember it because it was my first serious cheating involving an accomplice
and a false alibi ;)
Naughty! ;) BTW, I've checked, and "poczet sztandarowy" will be "standard bearers" in English.
OdpowiedzUsuńI remember that I used to admire people carrying standard bearers for unusual courage. ;p
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