Mr. Schlubb, the pear-shaped PE teacher, sent us all out to run half a dozen laps around a preposterously enormous cinder track. For the Greenwood kids— all of us white, marshmallowy, innately unphysical, squinting unfamiliarly in the bright sunshine— it was a shock to the system of an unprecedented order.

~In motivating people, YOU've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved~

Gym should be illegal. It's humiliating.