Child's Play

A lot of my cultural influence comes from my dads side. We have some Japanese in our blood and we'd like to embrace it. Whenever we'd go visit my grandmother, who is from Japan, she'd always make Japanese style food for us.  Whenever you walked in the front door, you have to take your shoes off. I don't know if it's for the sake of the clean house, or because of the culture. She also has her glass tea sets displayed in a case that sits in the living room. She has those cats that display good luck in her kitchen. I also took Japanese for three years to try and understand the culture a bit more. 

Whenever I was younger, I wanted to be famous. That's a lot of children had that dream, but I really believed that someday I would become famous. My influences were Britney Spears and Hilary Duff. After the Lizzie McGuire Movie came out, I wanted to be a singer, because it looked like so much fun. Much of the time I would practice my signature a billion times on a single piece of paper until I thought  it looked right. One time I signed a piece of paper and gave it to a kid in my fifth grade class, I was like, "You're going to need that someday." He doesn't need that anymore because I don't have that ambition anymore, I do not want to be a singer or an actress. We'll leave that dream to other people. 

My brother, mom, and I lived in an apartment complex and there were a lot of children in the neighborhood. We liked to go outside and play until it got dark outside. One time, a couple of the neighbor kids, my brother, and me went to my friend Kaylee's house because she had a trampoline and it was always an adventure whenever we went to her house. We got on the trampoline and jumped like we usually do. We'd always figure out a game to play on the trampoline while we were there. This time we were jumping and seeing who could get the highest. Me being the littlest was shooting up every time someone would come back down on the trampoline, but whenever I got back down another person was down and my ankle had jammed into the trampoline and twisted. I didn't cry, I just couldn't move my ankle much. We all had to get out, and I told my friend Kaylee to get her father while I sat on the bench right outside of her house. Her dad looked at my ankle and declared it as sprained, he carried me back to my house and I had to tell my mom what happened. We ended up not going to the doctor, because it wasn't too bad. I just couldn't walk much for a week or two. 

I had a lot of friends before I even went into school. My mom had to take me and my brother to day care because she had to go to work. We went to the cox daycare. I started going there whenever I was three or maybe even younger, but I met a lot of my best friends there. We had a group and it was Me, Ashlee, Kimi, Chelsea, and Tra. We didn't really like this girl named Mandy, and there was a guy name Jason that always hung around and a guy named Josh that would always chase us on the play ground. We all grew up together and went to summer shenanigans together. Once we stopped going there, we definitely stopped seeing each other, but we always kind of kept in touch. I had ended up changing schools in middle school and going to school with two of the four other girls in our group. One of them would talk to me every now and then, the other one acted as if we were strangers, and hung out with the so called "populars." What bothers me most is that I knew her before we even went to school, but high school changes people.