Board Thread:Trivia/@comment-3048593-20130205144937/@comment-3048593-20130208010025

Spencerz wrote: I'd go back to 7th grade and smack myself, before telling myself that the reason the redhead in math class hung around me so often was because she liked me, not because she was weird.

Did you read my mind or something? I was just about to tell a similar story about myself.

During my first year in gymnasium (the equivalent to high school in Sweden) at age 17 (I was one year older than the others), I was attending my first (and only) year in a French class.

In Sweden, like most other countries, we focus on language (Swedish & English in our country) and maths when it comes to education, which are the core-studies essentially. Among the other studies, you also had to study one language other than English, which included Spanish, French and German (Chinese is currently in talks of being implemented in the future). Not surprisingly, most students chose Spanish (which they ended up hating) while the minority chose either French or Spanish.

Before the end of 9th grade, it was the time of choosing what gymnasium you wanted to go to. While choosing school and program, you also had to choose things like orientation in a program, aesthetic courses and language classes. You had the option of either continuing the language you previously studied (in my case French), or choosing a new language to study that was available (which to me were Spanish, German, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Russian and Latin). The reason I went with the first option was because I would get "merit"-points for continuing, which would help in the long run for continued studies in applying for universities.

My story however starts when I started attending my French classes. Before the class started, I had friends that I would hang out with outside of the class room. When the class started, my first choice was always to sit at the desk at the back of the classroom (no real reason, it was just my preference).

It wasn't until halfway through my "freshman"-year, that in my French class, I noticed something...odd.. about this one girl in my class (in this case one who was blonde) who I thought acted strange, but didn't really think about too much. She seemed to find ways to be near where I was. She ended up at the same line to the cafeteria, she sat near where I would sit while waiting for the class to start (even though there were other places to sit); and one time when it was a lunch-break and I decided to take the time studying for a biology test, I sat alone at a long bench with small tables near the seats, and surprise, she showed up with some of her friends, waiting for her class to start. There were plenty of space on the other benches to sit, but she decided she wanted to sit near me... on the table right in front of me.

Why didn't I think anything of it? Because I didn't think a girl would actually be interested in me at any point. At first I thought she was one of those people who just sat near people just to be friendly just so that they wouldn't always have to sit alone. Which wasn't the case for me, since I had friends to hang out with otherwise during those times.

It wasn't until after I had a biology lesson near the first summer break, where we had a class revolving around ethology and instincts, where the teacher taught us how you could take notice in a person who's interested in you, that I figured out what was going on. I couldn't believe how dumb I was that I couldn't put 2 and 2 together. And guess what? When I figured out what she was doing around me... she was already with someone else.

So if I'll have the chance to use a time machine, I would go back to the point in time before I had my first French class, drag my past self around a corner and say to him: "Hey, you see that girl over there? Take note of her behaviour, and act accordingly, and you won't feel guilty of being blind and stupid at the end of this term!"

So that's the story of what I would change, to bring forth the creation of "Earth-131".