Passing Notes

January 30, 2009
By Kim Werker


Et Voila: Pull To Open
Et Voila: Pull To Open, originally uploaded by kpwerker.

I was an avid note writer in my early adolescent years. I spent innumerable hours of class time writing tomes to my friend, and she wrote to me faithfully. Ah, the days spent talking—or writing—to your bff for sixteen hours a day.

This is how we’d fold our notes. How did you fold yours?

[Thanks to @sklose for the inspiration!]

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9 Responses to Passing Notes

  1. cecily on January 30, 2009 at 12:39 pm

    Here's my hastily prepared contribution: http://www.flickr.com/photos/suchsweethands/set...

  2. Megan on January 30, 2009 at 4:44 pm

    I was going to take some photos until I saw that Cecily folds her notes the same way.

    In 8th grade, my friend Anca and I got a little hardcover journal and wrote our notes to each other in it. I remember taking it to Disneyland to write to her about what I was doing. I think I still have it somewhere…

  3. Kim Werker on January 30, 2009 at 4:47 pm

    What a great thing to still have! Like a collaborative diary.

  4. kristi on February 3, 2009 at 4:58 pm

    I remember folding notes this way. And also, in high school, spiral bound notebooks that we passed around and wrote and doodled in. Also, for a while, in high school I used to take in a coloring book and crayons and pass them around. (The teachers must have loved me for that… though really I think they did, bless them.) For a while I had the coloring books, with the contributions signed, but I don't anymore, because I'm just not a keeper.

    I do know that I wrote the essay that got me into college about crayons.

    Maybe I should introduce the fine art of note passing to my daughter, who is distraught because her middle school teachers are boring.

  5. Kim Werker on February 3, 2009 at 5:06 pm

    There's no cure for boredom in school like writing notes. Can't be beat.
    (Unless, you know, you're caught.)

  6. kristi on February 3, 2009 at 5:58 pm

    I remember folding notes this way. And also, in high school, spiral bound notebooks that we passed around and wrote and doodled in. Also, for a while, in high school I used to take in a coloring book and crayons and pass them around. (The teachers must have loved me for that… though really I think they did, bless them.) For a while I had the coloring books, with the contributions signed, but I don't anymore, because I'm just not a keeper.

    I do know that I wrote the essay that got me into college about crayons.

    Maybe I should introduce the fine art of note passing to my daughter, who is distraught because her middle school teachers are boring.

  7. Kim Werker on February 3, 2009 at 6:06 pm

    There's no cure for boredom in school like writing notes. Can't be beat.
    (Unless, you know, you're caught.)

  8. kristi on February 4, 2009 at 12:58 am

    I remember folding notes this way. And also, in high school, spiral bound notebooks that we passed around and wrote and doodled in. Also, for a while, in high school I used to take in a coloring book and crayons and pass them around. (The teachers must have loved me for that… though really I think they did, bless them.) For a while I had the coloring books, with the contributions signed, but I don't anymore, because I'm just not a keeper.

    I do know that I wrote the essay that got me into college about crayons.

    Maybe I should introduce the fine art of note passing to my daughter, who is distraught because her middle school teachers are boring.

  9. Kim Werker on February 4, 2009 at 1:06 am

    There's no cure for boredom in school like writing notes. Can't be beat.
    (Unless, you know, you're caught.)

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