… grouped all my Nips candies by color and ate them in order of perceived sweetness of colors: green, yellow, orange, red, then brown.
… spent so much time in the library that I got nicknamed “mother brain” by my teacher and classmates. I only read pocketbooks, though. Hardly mother brain material!
… was a boring goody two shoes consistent honors student but did not get an award on graduation day because I was so shy that I had few extracurricular activities. My school supposedly chose its honorable mentions based on a “wholistic” perspective.
This was not graduation day, but the annual recognition day.
… climbed trees, and ran around playing all kinds of active games with my friends, my favorite game being hide and seek (or taguan as we call it in the Philippines) and cha-cha, which is not the dance, but a baseball-type game that involved rubber slippers as bases and the ball.
… came from a family that could not afford to buy the real monopoly game board, so I created one of my own using a folder for the board, used bondpapers for paper money, a dice from another cheaper board game, and wooden chips for movers.
… loved my dolls so much and spent a lot of time sewing dresses for them.
… did not know how to smile naturally for the camera and literally said “cheese” whenever asked to pose, resulting in me looking not at all happy in my pictures.
… liked to draw pictures and cut them up and stick them to the insides of notebooks, like photo albums.
… looked forward to Christmas so I could go carolling from door to door with my neighborhood friends.
… was always fighting with my only sibling over petty things like the TV remote control or chores.
… was never neat, and always wore wrinkled and stained clothes and had lice in my long thick hair.
… collected X-Men playing cards .
… watched a lot of cartoons – Jem and the Holograms, Princess Sara, X-Men, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, etc.
… always had a hard time falling asleep and had to be rocked to sleep by my mom’s bisaya folk songs and old songs like Sad Movies and Paper Roses.
… loved going to the beach and swimming in the sea without sunblock, so my skin was very dark.
What about you, what kind of kid were you?
This post is part of the A to Z Challenge, a blog hop that goes through the alphabet for all the days of April except Sundays. Today’s feature is I for I was the kind of kid.
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You sound a lot like me. I was in the library whenever I could get there and I didn’t have any extracurricular activities since I was too shy. I collected comics and horror magazines. Thanks for letting us get to know a little more about you. 🙂
Christine Rains visiting from Untethered Realms for the A to Z Challenge.
It’s always nice to know when you share something in common with someone! Thanks for mentioning that!
Oh well you were conscientious – that’s good. I was sort of liked that but tended to avoid the library at university..
Haha, well you probably studied or read elsewhere, so that’s okay!
I think we shared the same smile 😉 your pics are great!
Haha yes I was thinking the same thing when I saw your post! Maybe it’s a thing for awkward, disheveled kids. 😛
Thanks!
I was the kids who:
*Participated in volleyball, basketball, cross country, track, cheerleading, girl scouts… yeah I was a real twit.
*Didn’t appreciate a library or reading until I was much older.
*Played cars in the mud with my brother so he would play barbies with me in return.
*Grew up in farming land so we had to be creative when it came to entertaining ourselves.
*Grew up next to train tracks so we would put our ears to the tracks and listen for the echoes of a coming train or place a ton of pennies on the tracks then give them to our friends.
Haha, I love how you traded play time with your brother! I sort of did the same when we were younger, he would play dolls with me but we had to make it an action story and involve his toy trucks too.
Thanks for sharing your childhood memories! 😀
I was a big reader when I was little too. My problem was that I wasn’t shy and often ended up getting in trouble. 🙂 I love the photos, by the way!
Haha now I’m glad I didn’t get in trouble, then! Being shy has its advantages.
Hahaha! Really dee? You were shy when you were a kid? Interesting to know! But that I know you are the mother brain! I also loved watching the Princess Sarah every afternoon and looked forward to Christmas tor the gifts and carolling! Oh I suddenly miss being a kid!
Yes, hard to believe, no? I just crawled out of my shell in college, thanks to SALT!
I loved seeing the pictures! I also spent tons of time reading but never got a fun nickname for it!
At that time, I hated the nickname because it was the name of an ugly villain in the cartoon show Captain N and the Game Master. But the nickname stuck till college. :-/
I was a highly imaginative one. And a bit of a smart-alec. 😉
I was a highly imaginative one, too! That’s the part I miss about being a kid!
Good two shoes… Ha! My sister think that I was one of those but I never understood why… I really wasn’t.
Sounds like you had a well rounded childhood.. Pre Social Media like myself… Those were the days.
Ah yes, the more active days before social media!
I was the type of kid who… Never realised how amazing and free it really feels to be a kid.
I was also the type of kid that loved to show off how I could be a “girly-girl” and a “tom-boy” (#FeministFromAYoungAge) with a side of bad-assery who has a fair few scars from trying to be too cool haha xx
I think we shared the same smile 😉 your pics are great!
Haha yes I was thinking the same thing when I saw your post! Maybe it’s a thing for awkward, disheveled kids. 😛
Thanks!
Good two shoes… Ha! My sister think that I was one of those but I never understood why… I really wasn’t.
Sounds like you had a well rounded childhood.. Pre Social Media like myself… Those were the days.
Ah yes, the more active days before social media!
Hahaha! Really dee? You were shy when you were a kid? Interesting to know! But that I know you are the mother brain! I also loved watching the Princess Sarah every afternoon and looked forward to Christmas tor the gifts and carolling! Oh I suddenly miss being a kid!
Yes, hard to believe, no? I just crawled out of my shell in college, thanks to SALT!
I was a highly imaginative one. And a bit of a smart-alec. 😉
I was a highly imaginative one, too! That’s the part I miss about being a kid!
I loved seeing the pictures! I also spent tons of time reading but never got a fun nickname for it!
At that time, I hated the nickname because it was the name of an ugly villain in the cartoon show Captain N and the Game Master. But the nickname stuck till college. :-/
Oh well you were conscientious – that’s good. I was sort of liked that but tended to avoid the library at university..
Haha, well you probably studied or read elsewhere, so that’s okay!
I was a big reader when I was little too. My problem was that I wasn’t shy and often ended up getting in trouble. 🙂 I love the photos, by the way!
Haha now I’m glad I didn’t get in trouble, then! Being shy has its advantages.
You sound a lot like me. I was in the library whenever I could get there and I didn’t have any extracurricular activities since I was too shy. I collected comics and horror magazines. Thanks for letting us get to know a little more about you. 🙂
Christine Rains visiting from Untethered Realms for the A to Z Challenge.
It’s always nice to know when you share something in common with someone! Thanks for mentioning that!
I was the kids who:
*Participated in volleyball, basketball, cross country, track, cheerleading, girl scouts… yeah I was a real twit.
*Didn’t appreciate a library or reading until I was much older.
*Played cars in the mud with my brother so he would play barbies with me in return.
*Grew up in farming land so we had to be creative when it came to entertaining ourselves.
*Grew up next to train tracks so we would put our ears to the tracks and listen for the echoes of a coming train or place a ton of pennies on the tracks then give them to our friends.
Haha, I love how you traded play time with your brother! I sort of did the same when we were younger, he would play dolls with me but we had to make it an action story and involve his toy trucks too.
Thanks for sharing your childhood memories! 😀
I was the type of kid who… Never realised how amazing and free it really feels to be a kid.
I was also the type of kid that loved to show off how I could be a “girly-girl” and a “tom-boy” (#FeministFromAYoungAge) with a side of bad-assery who has a fair few scars from trying to be too cool haha xx