It's funny how people's attitudes to things change as we become older. In the opposite gender for example. In Kindy and Year 1, it was perfectly fine to hold a guy's hand. In fact, my best friend was a guy too. After that was the cooties phase with the whole, "EWWWW!! BOY GERMS!! You can't give them to me cause I crossed my fingers." That kind of thing. And now, there's no such thing as boy germs anymore and you're labelled "immature" if you still believe in them. =)



When I was little, didn't give a damn about my parents and I thought, they don't understand kids. What would they ever know? I've finally come to appreciate them and I realise that yes, they were children at one stage of their life. Now that my brother's come to that stage of his life when he doesn't even care about what Mum and Dad do for him, I keep thinking to myself, "Woah, I was like that?" =="



When I was Kindy, I was just "that shy girl" who never talked to others and never laughed at anything. In fact, some people even thought that I didn't know how to speak English because I was so quiet. And, being so shy, I didn't get around to making proper friends besides they guy who's house I went to every day cause my parents were working.



That whole "shy" phase went for the whole time I was at that school. There was a lot of racism at that school so, being one of about 10 Asians in the school, I got remarks like, "Ching chong chung, I can speak Chinese! Chinese people should go die!" and other rude comments being thrown at me all the time.



In Year 3, I got in with the wrong crowd. I was one of those shy, quiet girls who hang around in the background getting picked on. Pathetic. So my parents decide to move to get away from that school and neighbourhood so I could start afresh. I'm really grateful for their decision because if they hadn't decided to move, I would still be that quiet, shy girl I was back then.



In Year 4, I made a lot of friends at my new school and started to loosen up a bit. In fact, it was the first time that I had ever been told off in class by the teacher! There, I finally found out what having real friends was like. And it was really fun! =)



In Year 5, it was the cooties phase. I think it came a bit late for me because of that little country-ish school I went to. xD



In Year 6, we were top of the school- the oldest and smartest. Year 6 was filled with the excitements of being the oldest in the school. Peer support where we got to boss around a group of kids, Year 6 mini-fete..There were also a lot of..conflicts.. between me and certain people.. But I won't go onto that. All that I can say was that I was really childish and I should have made some decisions for myself instead of getting into those..conflicts..



Finally, I got to high school and everything was so new and strange! Carrying your bag around the whole day and going to different classrooms for each subject. It also felt strange being top of the class in primary school and then coming to a smart high school and suddenly becoming average, even near the bottom, of the class. But, I made a lot of new friends and school was really fun.



Now that I'm in Year 8 and I look back at my past, I still think, how could I have been so immature? And, "Omgsh, I can't believe I did that!"

I'm really grateful to SG - Bob, Pat, Jerry, Tom and Betty - and all of my other friends. So I'd just like to say, thank you for being my friend. =)



I think I've come a long way, from that shy girl in Kindy who never talked or laughed, just sat there in the background, to who I am now. I'm "weird and random", I talk to others and laugh (a bit too much? ><" ), and if I act serious, people go, "That's so not Anna".



I can finally say proudly to myself, "Look at me now."