I guess I’m in a bit of a reminiscing mood tonight. I was surfing facebook (evil Facebook!) and I was thinking about all the friends I’ve made and left. I wonder about where they are now and what they’ve done with their lives.
In Primary 2, one of our class assignments was to draw a picture of what we wanted to be when we grew up. There were 3 students who wanted to be lawyers. Of the rest, half wanted to be doctors and the other half wanted to be teachers.
I said I wanted to be a teacher, just like Mrs. Marcia Young (who had been my teacher in Primary 1 and 2) – funny the things the brain remembers. I can’t for the life of me remember the name of my Primary 3 teacher – I do recall that she was extremely strict, had her hair in a bun everyday (and insisted that her students should do the same) and wore a qi pao everyday. I also recall that she made fun of me for wearing a headband and told me that I was too small to be a prefect.
I do recall some names and faces (and in full disclosure, attempted to creep some of them out on facebook but it’s really hard).
Fast forward to Canada. I remember some names from Grades 6/8, but the weirdest thing is, the names I can’t remember are the ones of friends I used to hang around with the most.
High school is a bit closer – I joined facebook a couple of years after graduating high school so I have many of my high school friends on facebook although I don’t actually talk to them or anything. It’s just interesting keeping track of what they are up to. And in case this seems creeptacular, it isn’t as if I go around looking at people’s photos everyday. I don’t interact with my high school friends much so they don’t show up on my feeds. It’s just interesting to see that many of my friends did end up living their dreams (or not, depending).
In short, I just seem to be in a very reminiscing mood tonight.
Also, I make kick ass banana chocolate chip muffins. I don’t know how that’s related at all (it isn’t) but I had to share. Yum.
It’s also very damp/humid here and everything gets soggy so quickly. I think I should move to etobicoke. Or something. I’m bored.
