School times
School times were good. I wouldn't say the best time of my life (now is the best time of my life!!) but they were pretty good.

I liked school. I didn't need to make any effort to remember things. My memory is far too good (it gave me a lot of troubles and disappointments until I realized that not everybody could remember as I did) and just needed to listen at the teacher to be in the top of the class.

There were a few things that I didn't like too much though. The weekly mass and the weekly rosary could be very boring, but as I was the leader of the "chorus" and played the guitar, I would find the way to entertain myself.

As part of the extra-scholar activities, you could join a group called "Foc" (fire in Catalan). This is a "Mary followers (??)" group. Of course, I was part of it since I was 6 (chispita = little sparkle) and went through chispa (=sparkle), llama (=flame) and brasa (=ember). Now, we were split in little groups depending on your range, and the brasa was the leader of the group. We sang a lot of Christian songs, then pray (singing more), then meet with our little groups to discuss the topic of the week and then sing again. It was fun, more or less.

So it comes to me being a brasa and having my little group of chispitas, and everything was good.

Until one day. In one of the weekly masses, I didn't have the Holy Communion. I didn't feel like it, you know. But then, the nun in charge of Foc came to talk to me after the mass:
Hermana Juana María: You didn't have your Holy Communion
Me: I know, I wasn't ready for it today.
HJM: Weren't you? You know there is a priest there, in case you need confession.
Me: That's my business. I'll confess when I have to.
HJM: If you don't have the Holy Communion you're setting a bad example of being a brasa.
Me: Really? Then I don't want to be a brasa anymore.

At this point, her face changed, turning red, and started to shout at me:

HJM: You know who is talking from you, don't you? You know!!! It's the devil inside you who is talking!! He's so happy you're saying that, behaving like this!!!

Then my face changed, turned into surprise:

Me: I quit

And I did. The Church has lost a lot of power over me. I still believe in God, but these nuns made me think too much about how things are in the Catholic Church, and I don't like it.

Not too funny, I know. It sounds better when I tell it in Spanish and don't need constant translation. Sorry.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Fri 30 Jan 2009, 9:32, 3 replies)

Nuns are evil.....Fact!
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( girlinthehole, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 10:06, closed)

There was one
who was normal, though. She used to tell us "If you want to became a nun, go for it, but don't do it without trying a real love kiss first"

She was great.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Fri 30 Jan 2009, 10:38, closed)

sucker for puns
And here I thought this was winding up for a "Foc you" joke =P
(TheManWhoWas SlightlyKnackered, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 16:14, closed)