#20: Describe 3 significant memories from your childhood.
I know what you’re thinking: “What??? She’s still doing the 30 things series!” I am well aware that it’s been at least a month since I posted question 19. What even is considered a significant memory from your childhood? I’m not entirely sure, so I’m just gonna give you the first three memories that pop into my head!
1) I remember when I got my first woodtick. Eww, gross! We hadn’t moved yet. I think I was probably, like, 3 or 4 years old. I remember that I was watching Saturday morning cartoons in our basement. And I remember that I was wearing my Little Mermaid night gown. (I was kind of obsessed with the Little Mermaid, I think I even had a backpack too.) Anyway, I was watching cartoons in my night gown and I felt something crawling on me. So I looked, and there it was. A gross little brown bugger with legs. I screamed and ran upstairs to my mom. And that’s the extent of my memory regarding that experience.
P.S. I should really be working on my Bloom’s taxonomy essay…
What time period is considered “childhood” anyway? Psht.
2) When I was in elementary school, I lived a double life. (I don’t mean, like, one good and one bad. I mean, like, one real and one make-believe.) I pretended that I was this really popular girl when I was at home. I had quite an elaborate imagination back then, I wonder what happened. Anyway, I played this girl, and all her friends, and even her teacher. I played pretend-school. Now, I’m sure that lots of kids did that, but I was weird. I taught myself French, ELA, science (all about animals) and math. I even had a cooking class… (which is actually where I learned how to cook for the most part). I wrote myself tests and I took them. I was crazy. But hey, you’re not interesting if you’re not a little bit crazy somehow, right? (Maybe this is why I apparently have a decently high IQ…)
3) In grade 3, our teacher gave us a spelling assignment every week. We had to choose words that we didn’t know how to spell and then use them in a sentence and draw a picture of what the word meant and stuff like that. I remember that one of my friends (who is actually still my friend, I hung out with her on Friday…) decided it would be hilarious if she picked really simple words. I remember she picked the word ‘the’ one time and our teacher totally yelled at her. Anyway, because I was a really weird kid, possibly borderline special, I went through the dictionary and picked really hard words. I was kinda clever though, because I remember I’d pick words that were above my reading level, but not words that were so hard that my teacher wouldn’t let me use them. She was always so surprised by my word choices. This is when I learned the word “ambidextrous”. (I had a similar assignment in grade 6, except the teacher always picked half the words. And I remember one time she picked the word “ambidextrous” and she was very surprised to find out that I knew what it meant and how to spell it already.)
There. Now you know why I’m a little crazy. ‘Cause I was one weird child!
