By no means am I an adult. I am, at 16 years old by no means still a kid. I tend to think of myself as an almost adult with a lot of childish qualities. It is more fun to be a kid. I like to pretend that I can still fit through the child sized tunnels, or in the baby swings at the park, but I also like being a teenager. I like being the nerd that I am, hanging out with my nerdy friends. I feel like being nerdy is more accepted in the teenager stage of life.
I don't actually remember a lot of my childhood. Why? I have no answer to that question. It's quite sad, really. What other friends remember, I seem to have lost, but what I do remember is happy.
My earliest memory is a game that we had when we were younger. It was called Hi Ho Cheri-O. The point of the game was to be the first one to get 10 cherries from the tree to the bucket. I remember getting this game for my third birthday and being in love with it. My sister and I would play it endlessly. I remember sitting in the living room, drowning out all my surrounding out as I just focused on winning the game. I blame my competitive nature on this game and this game only.
My second earliest memory is my brother falling asleep in my arms shortly after he was born. This was when I was about four. I remember my mom giving me my baby brother (only a few months at a time) to hold and shortly after that I look down and he was asleep. Then I couldn't move because he was in my arms. This has got to be my favorite memory of mine.
My next favorite memory is changing my brother's diaper. He was such a squirmy baby. I remember sitting at the end of the hallway. My sister was at his head dangling keys to try and make him focus on that and make it easier for me to change his diaper. Every once in a while we would change sides in hopes that the other person could do the job better. It took us forever to finally get the diaper on him and it wasn't without the help of some parents who had already done this before.
I don't remember much from elementary school. The things that I do remember are the people and this one random memory about being sick that I won't share for those of you who have weak stomachs. :)
My best friend in elementary school was Ayla. We would hang out all the time. She was pretty much the leader of the pack and had all the ideas. I was more of a follower. We used to go around the playground pretending that it was a far off land, in which there were dragons, and the only way to get around was by maps we would draw on the back of those plastic cereal cup tops that you would get at breakfast. We would hide the plastic tops in our shoes and then when recess came we would pull them out and use them as maps.
I remember the boy I liked from first grade until third grade. He was my best guy friend. I remember him chasing me around the playground, and then I would turn around and chase him. It was elementary school love. :) I loved going over to his house, we would talk about dragons (i'm just now realizing that I had a thing for dragons in elementary school). He was a weird and nerdy, but I loved him.
The middle school years were my favorite. I loved the teachers, the science in my school, the people. I just loved all of it. There are to many memories to say which one was my favorite here. I just loved all of it. This is where my love for Doctor Who, biology, and everything nerdy started.
Those are my childhood memories. They are few and far between, but all of them good, which i'm happy about. :)
Thanks for reading!!
See you all next week!
Sabrina.
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