First Grade

Thanks to my grade school classmates for scanning and posting this class picture. I don't even remember having a copy of this picture. I'm sitting at the second row, far left, the one with chubby cheeks and long bangs.

I can't say I remember much from the first grade. I just remember being in kindergarten one day and then the next day I was transferred to first grade. I still know all my teachers from the picture. They were still teaching at Mt. View even after we finished grade school. I still recognize most of my classmates, most of us stayed at the same school until 6th grade. Our village was relatively small. Everyone pretty much knew everybody. We just walked to school by ourselves. We played in the streets. We visited each other's houses. We caught dragonflies in the fields. All in all, we pretty much led simple lives.