Memory is a wonderful thing. If you still have papers from your time at school, I suggest to go through them and press yourself to remember details. I learned

Memory is a wonderful thing. If you still have papers from your time at school, I suggest to go through them and press yourself to remember details. I learned Latin for 3 or 4 years, and from the top of my head could come up with maybe 100 latin words. But when I look at a latin text we translated back than, it comes back bit by bit. I might remember the ending of a meaningless story I translated 10 years ago in a rush before class started. Maybe I will remember specific mistakes I made in translating the text, or I will remember the picture that was next to the text in the course book. It is remarkable that memory is able to do. Granted, we know that a good part part of these memories are in fact incorrect. But as long as I don't have to talk to a court or write a memoir, it does not bother me.