Ms. Carolyn

**Carolyn Lenora Griswell** (born as Carolyn Lenora Jester) was the school bus driver of the special needs school bus 158M along with her formerly owned school bus 125M. She did an elementary and high school for her bus route while having the job as a bus driver. She was the former bus driver and founder of the 158M Crew and then got replaced by present school bus driver Alicia Glover due to her having to get a second heart surgery and then getting diagnosed with a heart condition afterward. Ms. Carolyn appeared in every episode of Maraya's three podcast-recording series *Welcoming Our Students on 158M*, *Lots of Fun on 158M*, and *The Ms. Carolyn Show* as the deuteragonist.

## Ms. Carolyn

### Born

Carolyn Lenora JesterJune 11, 1943 (age 77)

Daytona Beach, FL

## Early Life

Carolyn Lenora Griswell was born on June 11, 1943, in Daytona Beach, Florida, with her mother and father who have passed away. She then moved to Sharpsburg, GA, in 1978, when her house was built.

### Education

Ms. Carolyn went to an unnamed elementary school, middle school, and high school while living in Florida. She graduated from high school in 1961. She also took voice lessons when she was 10 in 1953.

### Being Diagnosed with a Heart Condition

Before Maraya started riding her bus, she had to get a heart surgery because there was something wrong with her heart. She then had to get a second one in February 2019 due to her having a stroke, which one person from the special ed class at Northgate whose name wasn't Maraya thought she had a heart attack. Ms. Carolyn had to stay in the hospital for 24 days, which made Maraya fall into a deep, deep depression. This caused her to retire from her bus driver job for good at 75 due to her being diagnosed with the heart condition, which made her have memory loss. Before she got the second heart surgery, she had to ride in an ambulance to Atlanta to do heart therapy after having the first one done.

### Her Life Now

At 77, she lives with her husband, Mr. Danny, and visits the doctor at least once a week. She also travels to her old home city Daytona Beach every two weeks for ten days to stay in her beach house after staying at her house in Georgia for at least a week. She would also talk to Maraya on the phone as least once a month when she's at home. Every two months, she would call Maraya back after a few attempts of missing the phone calls from her best friend.

## Ms. Carolyn's Bus Route

### Schools

1. Thomas Crossroads Elementary
2. Poplar Road Elementary (only for midday)
3. Lee Middle School (formerly)
4. Northgate High School

### Picking Up the Students

* Sept - Dec 2016 - picks up Jonathan first, then Blake, then Maraya, then Anie, then Dylan, then Clayton, then Connor, then John, and then Robert last.
* Jan - May 2017 - The students are picked up in the same order, except that Robert no longer rides the bus anymore due to him graduating in December.
* Aug 2017- Feb 2018 - picks up Jonathan first, then Maraya, then Dylan (only for a few weeks), then Clayton, then Sydney, then Connor, then John (rarely), and then Novalee last.
* Feb - May 2018 - Nearly the same order except that Maraya and Dylan are not riding anymore.

### Dropping Off the Students

* Sept - Dec 2016 - drops off Jonathan, then Connor, then John, then Robert, then Dylan, then Cody, then Blake, then Maraya, then Anie, and then Clayton last.
* Jan - May 2017 - Students are dropped off in the same order, except that Robert is not there.
* Aug 2017 - Feb 2018 - drops off Sydney first (John first if he's riding in the afternoon), then Connor (if possible), then Novalee (if possible), then Dylan (only for a few weeks), then Cody, then Maraya, then Clayton, and then Jonathan last.
* Feb - May 2018 - Nearly the same order except that Maraya and Dylan aren't there anymore.

## All of Ms. Carolyn's Jobs

1. Cashier at Crowley's Dime Store (10-cent store in her song *58 Impala*; her first job)
2. Waitress at Chick-fil-a
3. Singer-songwriter
4. Teacher (only on the school bus)
5. School bus monitor
6. School bus driver (her last job)

## Quotes

* "That's right!"
* "What you got?"
* "Who'd you see"
* "Where'd you go?"
* "Wonderful!" ("Ooh, wonderful!" in Tomodachi Life; "Ah, subarashi!" in Tomodachi Collection)
* "That's enough!" (Tomodachi Life; "Sozeno" in Tomodachi Collection)
* "Till the cows go." (Tomodachi Life and Collection)
* "See how good you are?"
* "That's amazing to me."
* "Good girl." (only to Sydney)
* "Bye-bye!" (the way she says goodbye to everyone, including older adults)

## Personality

Ms. Carolyn is known to be an easygoing type of person who likes all her kids who formerly rode her bus in the three podcast series. She is also very wise as she teaches Maraya about her generation of music. Her hobbies include singing, drawing, painting, sewing, and gardening. Every time Maraya plays a joke or two on her, she laughs at every one. Ms. Carolyn has two special abilities, which are "cloning" herself (Maraya thinks it's an actual superpower) and boosting her bestie's good luck and confidence, which is the reason why she is called "the day brightener" by Maraya. She also likes her best friend's creativity and originality that she shows when looking at her given present from the mail.

## In the Podcast Series

### Welcoming Our Students on 158M

Throughout the whole series, Ms. Carolyn was 74 years old.

### Lots of Fun on 158M

In all six episodes of the sequel podcast series, Ms. Carolyn was the same age as in the previous series.

### The Ms. Carolyn Show

Ms. Carolyn was 73 in the first two episodes, then was 74 in episodes 3-12, and then 75 in episodes 13-30.

## Trivia

* Ms. Carolyn also appeared in every episode of all three of the podcast series because she was the deuteragonist.
* In 1969, she went to 7 countries in Europe in two weeks. The countries include Italy, Austria, France, the UK, and three other unknown ones. This was first mentioned in an episode.
* She is known to speak in a slight Southern accent (Connor thinks it's a complete Southern accent).
* Ms. Carolyn might be British because of some words that she says differently like *record* and *schedule*.
* Ms. Carolyn's favorite band member from *The Beatles* is Paul McCartney.
* Her favorite season is spring.
* She looks like Maraya's grandma on the outside but on the inside, she is like Maraya.
* She was born with the last name Jester until she got married and decided to change her last name to Griswell.
* Ms. Carolyn has five grandkids and also one or two children.
* When singing a song she doesn't remember all the lyrics to, she would sing them in the wrong order or melody, hum them, or just simply sing them wrong. She was first heard doing this in episode 7.