Question: Did you have prayer in school?

[Jamastiene]

102. Every single time there was a health test that involved

any physical activity in the gym, I prayed hard, really hard. I knew others who literally stood in prayer circles and held hands before math tests. I felt so sorry for them. I was fine with the math. It was gym that always did me in. I have spina bifida and still had to do the one exercise I hated most, because it was not a contact activity.

I hated doing that thing where they make you pull your entire body weight up to a metal bar, then put your chin on the bar, then hang there for a minute or two. The longest minutes in school, for me, were those minutes. Damn Raygun and his Arnold Schwarzenegger designed physical fitness program.

Why couldn't we just play basketball and run? Why'd we have to do something as painful as that stupid chin up thing? To this day, I pray I never have to go back to school...at least not one that requires that painful chin up crap. Of course, I wasn't allowed to play the basketball because it was considered a contact sport. Damn spina bifida kept me from ever being allowed to go to Carrowinds too. But, by God, I had to do those damn chin ups. They always made my entire body shake uncontrollably for some odd reason. :cringe: