I absolutely hated PE

I absolutely hated PE. I was not motivated towards sports so PE was just running and doing situps and pushups and I was miserable at all of it. Luckily in the 8th and 9th grades I was excused from PE because I was in marching band.

I was heavy into science and math and was not particularly excited by history, English or social studies. I recall that we had a reading class that was acceptable except for the spelling tests.

I spent a lot of time in the library with my friends. We loved science fiction and read Heinlein and Asimov and other science fiction writers. This was before the space program got kicked into high gear and we did not know much about the moon, Mars, Venus, Mercury. The science fiction writers could generate colonies on the smaller planets and write really engaging stories. I recall one by Heinlein, Have Spacesuit, Will Travel about a kid who found a used spacesuit and ended up on the moon. Totally infeasible by my knowledge today, but great when I was 13 years old.