4th April, 2009 - Ten Random Thoughts About Primary School #2

I remember being extremely upset about trying and failing continuously for a whole morning to put the stroke at the top of the number five on the correct side of the vertical line leading upwards from the semicircle. Every time I came to it, I wanted to put it on the left.

The rest of the class seemed to have mastered this piece of witchcraft, and most of them seemed to be well on their way to solving quadrilateral equations. But not me. I was stuck on attempting to master the dark arts of writing the number 5.