[cathidaw]

oh shizara I'm sure I do it partly for my ego.
Maybe we all unconsciously do things for that reason.
Iget a kick out of having a child - who may be excluded from school -who will sit for ages and create a drawing or something of his- or her own free will, and ask if they can come again.
I too remember sitting looking out of the window in boring lessons and wishing I was out there. I played truant once with a friend but was a bag of nerves and so worried that I would be seen.I didn't do it again.
Luckily I moved back to Coventry to a school which was more interested in the less academic stuff. Of course there was always the maths etc but the other things compensated for that.
My bugbear though was needlwork. Today I can make anything but at school my samples were the grubbiest -through being often on the floor-and always blood specked from pricking my finger- On top of that I had a younger sister whose work was so neat and clean I could have kicked her. my teacher despaired.
My knitting was worse.