polamook wrote:I always preferred the taste of those Sakura chalks.
Hmm... I used to have Sakura wax crayons! I used to turn my table lamp upside down, put a paper against the hot lightbulb and press a Sakura crayon against it - and then watch how it melted and ran into psychedelic shapes (well, almost...)
I still remember what the crayons smelled like.
Whereas some of those coloured pencils we had at school (I also started my primary education in the early 70's) were so hard they hardly left any trace on the paper. You had to scrape away like a madman to produce anything resembling a drawing, and even then the poor teacher could not have been absolutely certain whether you'd used blue or green for the sky. Those pencils must have lasted for generations. Maybe they're still in use back at the old school, who knows.
Perhaps they were actually made of petrified twigs by the Cro-magnon?
alright and thanks!