I remember (Reflections of the First Year)

It's been a crazy year, what with adjustments and workload, I suppose the best way to fully conclude is the same way I did here. So here goes...

I remember the box of food in our front room expanding in size and worrying what would happen if I didn't get in.

I remember being ectastic I was accepted for all the wrong reasons.

I remember cooking my first meal and proudly phoning my mother to tell her all about it.

I remember spending all or at least most of my time on a cushion chair in Pizza Hut.

I remember being worried my Chii ears wouldn't arrive.

I remember standing in my kitchen with Laney, putting onions on cocktail sticks.

I remember one of the first creative writing classes and the flush of despair (zetsubou shitaaaaa) when I didnt have any important objects to put on the table.

I remember having my picture taken for the Derbyshire times to celebrate my achievement and having my hair blown all over the shant ¬_¬

I remember the first (and prolly only) time I visited Mosh.

I remember visiting my friends at Christmas and wondering if I had changed as much as they had.

I remember my Carley rage.

I remember the first time I visited the oriental supermarket.

I remember my first taste of Pocky.

I remember the first assignment I did and how worried I was that it would fail.

I remember the first assignment party.

I remember there being sheep.

I remember being a psychic over animal transformation.

I remember, I remember...

If you've all ready read Miss Laney's most recent blog entry, you will know that we recently had our last lessons of the year. It was quite emotional, in the sense that we were doing memory prompts. The task was to write none stop for twenty minutes using the prefix 'i remember'. If I'm honest I wasn't that surprised by what I wrote - I don't have a great memory...but anyway, here's the list...

* I remember the run down double decker that passed my secondary school every day at 4:30. Better still I remember the day I discovered that it was actually the college bus I was to board for the next two years.
*I remember confusing a litre and a half for a pint and a half.
*I remember being scared to death of my English paper only to discover it was a summary of Walt Disney.
*I remember falling down the cliff at Heights of Abraham and my Mum's suggestion to smother the wound in hand soap.
*I remember going to two funerals in one week and mixing up who was in the casket.
*I remember laughing at my Dad because he sunburnt his face.
*I remember writing my first poem.
*I remember visiting my Nan's grave for the first time and getting lost in the cemetary.
*I remember when my Grandad had a stroke and I stayed over at my Nan's.
*I remember when the teenage years started at 13.
*I remember the shady kid in the playground who believed he was a distant relation of YoHans.
*I remember family barbecues.
*I remember feeling important because I knew the headteachers first name.
*I remember school assemblies and 'that weird finger syndrome' that causes everyone to talk when the projector is switched on.
*I remember when Tiddley Winks was the best thing ever.
*I remember trying to learn to ride a bike despite the fact I was bleeding profusely.
*I remember my neighbour calling me 'jelly tot'.
*I remember having my hair cut short.
*I remember pinning a picture of Captain Hook to the back of my locker.
*I remember explainig to my best friend that I was vegetarian, three days before the birthday meal at her house.
*I remember my mother putting Lindtdor hearts in my lunchbox on valentines day.
*I remember dancing to the time warp in the sixth floor corridor.
*I remember the guy who convinced everyone he was fourteenth in line to the throne of Spain.
*I remember having my belly pierced.
*I remember the love of my life.
*I remember asking a friend why the book was backwards and the condescending look on his face as he explained that it was manga.
*I remember walking into my prom, having recently been dumped.
*I remember visiting the cinema three times in the same week to see Pirates of the Caribbean - At World's End.
*I remember getting tipsy on one shot of rum.
*I remember wondering where babies came from and the rage when I found out.
*I remember taking my sunday night bath early, just so I could listen to the top 40.
*I remember watching Spirited Away for the first time.
*I remember when hair transfers were cool.
*I remember wishing I was Sabrina.
*I remember reading the first line of Wuthering Heights and shoving it back on the shelf, only to learn about eight years later that I loved it.
*I remember seeing Steps at Sheffield Arena.
*I remember when PCs were the height of technology.
*I remember thinking everybody lived near a paddock.