random childhood memories

thinking about my childhood since im gonna become an adult soon. writing down some prominent memories i have from being a kid :) 

montessori:

1. we were going to lunch. i sat at a table and i was eating alone so i was looking outside the big windows with colorful trimming and at other people. there was this one boy who was eating golfish and he kept sneezing onto his food. there was a teacher with him so she told him "dont sneeze on your goldfish!!" and the boy promptly sneezed again on the golfish lolol. i found this really funny at the time

2. we had to draw a deer in class one day. there was this one boy in class who drew a deer and the teacher said his was the best because it had spots so it was realistic. i didnt draw spots on mine just a brown deer lol and felt kinda jealous of his artistic skills.

3. one time it was near halloween i think so we were making little bags of candy. the teachers there were passing around different types of candy and chocolates. after a while i decided to try one of the m&ms instead of putting it in the little brown paper bag and it turned out to be a peanut m&m which im allergic to so i spit it out. idk why i remember this.

germany: 

4. one day my mom made castella bread for my brother and i. we were sitting at a low table in the living room. we each got a huge slice, and my mom asked us if we wanted our slices cut into small pieces. i said yes, my brother said no. for some reason idek what happened but my brother basically shoveled ALL the pieces of my bread into his mouth and gobbled it up, no crumbs. even though he didnt eat his slice??? like tf?? i got up to tell my mom but she was on a phone call so she wasnt paying attention to me. then i sat down at the table again and my brother was now playing with toys nearby. i was still mad so i took the tinesttt little piece from his slice and ate it. and that was it (i shouldve taken the entire thing *facepalm*). and then my brother came back and alternated between playing with toys and taking bites of his bread. this kid has a long history of messing with my food i swear smh my head. 

5. have this one weird memory where it feels like something real that actually happened to me but it cant be because its just unrealistic. basically one night there was this weird shadow monster chasing me. i was running away from it and sprinting down the stairs as fast as i could, practically skipping steps as i went down. and the shadow of the monster was kinda stretched so it looked taller and i could see it on the wall as i descended. also as i was running down everything was kinda warped as if i was in some sort of horror game. as i reached the bottom of the stairs and i could see and hear glimpses of my parents sitting on the couch in the living room. it looked so bright and cozy there. i ran as fast as i could towards them. 

6. it had snowed a lot and i was making a snow penguin during recess cuz i had nothing else to do. this random teacher came up to me and complimented me teehee and she asked to take a picture too im so goated at sculpture

7. waterparks in germany were so goatedd. the one my family went to had huge indoor pools, some for fun some for practicing swimming. there was also a giant heated pool that extended to the outdoors. and there were big slides and stuff too. i liked that in the regular areas the water wasnt cold either it was like room temp. it was always a fun time there! guys germany has the best attractions and activities ever like the parks, museums, waterparks, visiting castles, everything was so fun there. i want to go again sometime. 

8. used to go to this one korean church. one day we were creating sculptures and i made a coiled up clay snake with a random ball stuck on top cuz i had extra clay. but this one boy kept trying to rip the ball off once it dried for some reason. he couldnt get it at first so i felt proud my creation was holding up. until he succeeded eventually and i cried. like bro what he do that for. what was the reason. smh my head 

9. one time, i decided to pretend to be blind to test my abilities of getting around without sight and started walking downstairs (somehow didnt tumble down the stairs) and around the couch. eventually i stumbled around enough, then fell and banged my head on the side of a coffee table and it hurt a lot lolll. why did i do that. i was so stupid. after that i never pretended to be blind again it actually was so painful.

10. was going to a birthday party in my neighborhood.. ended up hiding under a table from my mom to eat a cupcake (i was supposed to eat a real meal first i think). but somehow i got found quickly ugh. also my present i brought were these huge inflatable planet and sun ball things. the sun one was gigantic everyone had fun playing with it. this memory feels kinda fake/dreamlike to me tbh. but it was something that happened i def went to this birthday party. 

georgia:

11. in 4th grade i had no friends kinda so during lunch i'd be reading while eating. i always read warrior cat books and was known as the warrior cats books reader in class. to the point where when people would find one of those books laying around the classroom they'd ask me if it was mine (it wasnt).

12. also in 4th grade the way i was able to become popular (?) eventually was through my art. i brought my sketchbook to class once and someone noticed my art, which made other people also notice. people would tell me things they wanted me to draw and i'd draw stuff for them. then i quickly became perceived as the "best artist in class" which was nice :) and there was another good artist in class, i liked to look at her art too! 

13. tybee island beach was somewhere my family and i used to go to kinda often. it was always fun :D we usually got bruster's real ice cream after too. my siblings and i called it bruster's really ice cream. it was so good. but years later after we came back to america again and tried bruster's again it was diabolically sweet NOOOO !! and they also shut down the location we used to go to when we visited georgia again later on 

korea:

14. ive always tended to run cold rather than hot. so when i went outside to recess i had this thing i made up. where basically outside, i could soak up the sun's heat and i could 'store' it somehow for later use when i was cold. i think it actually worked sometimes cuz i placebo effect-ed myself ha 

thinking of these memories keep bringing up new ones i barely thought about before so this was fun. i dont want this post to be super long though so thats it. maybe ill write down more memories later. i dont want to forget my childhood when im an older adult (like 60+ or whenever the past becomes too blurry)