Tim Kindelan:  

Tim is from Rancho Palos Verdes, California. Tim's schools include Miraleste High School and Holy Trinity for grade school where he wore a uniform (that he hated) each day, and was taught by super strict nuns. He was an altar boy, sang in the church choir, and dutifully obeyed all the rules at the school so as not to get on the bad side of those strict nuns. Tim looks back on his time at HT with great humor, remembering things like: "pagan babies coin cans" that students were to fill with spare change that would eventually be distributed to "pagan babies in the world" (back then Tim actually believed there were "pagan babies" that needed this spare change, and would indeed receive it); Tim also remembers having to go to confession as a little boy and feeling really stressed at not knowing what "sins" to say to the priest in the "closet" (Tim insists he did nothing that would qualify as a "sin" when he was a little boy); and hating the taste of the wafer "host" that people received at "communion". He also thought, as a young boy, that "stations of the cross" and Rosaries were the most boring thing EVER. Despite all this, Tim tried his very best to be a good little Catholic boy while attending HT, as the nuns convinced Tim that if he was not a good boy, he risked being sent off to "eternal damnation" in Hell when he died--which, to a young boy, sounded "totally GNARLY!" Tim's experiences at "HT" made him REALLY appreciate the nice students and excellent teachers at Miraleste High School. It was the equivalent of shifting from a "negative format" of education to an "eternally positive" style of teaching, and was a needed breath of fresh air to a teenager that had grown quite weary of the nuns' strict ways. MHS was superb academically, and being a new facility, with a relatively small student population, the adm...Expand for more