Kindergarten

Impressions: It’s my first time in school and I didn’t know I had to stay in school for 12 more years. In fact, you can say I knew practically nothing about school at this point.

Friends: Well I first befriended a guy name Mikail. I think that’s how it’s spelt. But I dunno, I guess we never really talked later so it was like nothing almost. There I met Lucas, my first ever best friend all throughout elementary. There was also Rodney, my second best friend. I’m not sure how we got along but we did. Not only those two, I met a lot of people that have been my friends for a long time. I first met Michelle Cheung, Jenny Dong, and Dijon here. Dijon was the tallest guy I knew, and my first African-American friend. We got along great. He could do this pink eye thing. Something with his eyelids. It was disgusting, but hilarious.

Debacles: My first experience when we had computer room time. Sometimes Ms. Salem frightens me to hell and other times she can be real nice. Now that I think about it, she probably has some French descent.

Trends: I think Power Rangers was pretty big back then. Ah, the memories.

Overall: Not so bad. I don’t remember doing much in it except play and screw up a few times. I think this is the first time I started noticing every Friday was the day there’d be sales in the auditorium or something. Was it? Well it was fun, nevertheless.

First Grade

Impressions: Well I think I’m learning how school works. Recess was probably the best things I was ever offered.

Friends: Hey, most of my friends are here too! Hurray! Oh wait, I have a problem with this guy. Macksim? He’s like the kind of trolls that aren’t on the internet if that’s even remotely possible.

Debacles: Probably one of the first times I got in real trouble and that was for taking a lot. Hey, I don’t really talk that much anymore. Maybe it’s because I hate it when I’m being lectured or yelled at?

Trends: Well, I can’t really say much but my teach, Ms. Taylor always read stories on Ms. Viola Swamp. On Halloween that would be her costume. I guess I was freaked out a bit but it was all in good fun.

Overall: Pretty good. This was the first year I joined a play by my own accord, and the first and only play where my two other sisters at Lafayette that time were in as well. It was The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. I was supposed to play a bear, but they changed it to a mouse for some reason. Actually they changed a lot of animals for some reason… Holiday Bazaar was really awesome as well as the Halloween day.

Second Grade

Impressions: Okay, it seems that with every year, the kids go to rooms now on the second and third floors. And in the double digits now!! Wow, a room with a sofa too. That’s neato.

Friends: Okay, I think this turned out pretty good. I made a lot of new friends here, I think. Unfortunately I can’t really remember anyone aside from Shaina, Barclay, and Jordan, an Aussie! And hey, Lucas is in my class again! How lucky is that?

Debacles: I really don’t see what problems I had here. It was really funny. Mrs. Burger took us on a lot of field trips and we had many book order catalogs.

Trends: Everyone knows that awesome little aardvark, right? Even to this day, Arthur is still the freakin’ bomb. A-A-R-D-V-A-R-K! And I know everyone remembers Jumpstart PC games. The 2^nd grade one is the best, still is. What better than robots with punny names and a great adventure?

Overall: Honestly, I don’t know exactly how I passed because I clearly didn’t finish all my homework. Hell, even I’m amazed by that. But aside from that (and my very horrible, horrible handwriting) it was great.

Third Grade

Impressions: Little did I know this was gonna be one year I had to endure painfully. This is so stupid. My teacher was supposed to be this guy but he must’ve gotten fired or whatever. So instead, my class had alternating substitutes. Painful, painful indeed.

Friends: I never heard of a class with mixed grades, but it happened. The third grade class and the fourth grade class joined forces as one class. I befriended a whole lot of 4^th graders because I was completely separated from almost all of my friends. Andy, Kip, and Wesley. The three greatest friends of mine that weren’t in my grade. We totally did everything together.

Debacles: Here’s where things got a little ugly. I actually got a pink slip. See, I was hanging out with some people (including Andy) and it was after school. We were in the bathroom and suddenly one of the guys threw a wet rolled up toilet paper at the wall. I thought it looked quite funny so I wanted to try it myself. I failed totally. But the problem was that once we went back up to the yard I was taking a drink from the water fountain (oh man, I miss those fountains) and one of the school guys was hollering at us randomly. He found the wall in the bathroom full of wet toilet balls thrown at the wall. I wasn’t quite thinking at the moment, but I can’t really be to blame for that because the one I shot was like, on the floor and it wasn’t as great as the others stuck on the wall. So why did I not say anything? I was so stupid… -_-; the punishment aside from a pink slip was to clean the bathroom for like weeks. I actually didn’t think it was that terrible but it was tedious and fucking annoying. Well, anyways, a teacher was finally decided after so many others and it was Mr. Walker in a new room downstairs. He was so cool. My first male teacher and he was quite calm and collected.

Trends: Pokémon, totally… That was practically the thing back then. Oh yeah, Beast Wars was really big too.

Overall: Honestly, things went really bad for me, but there was the good side of it that came for me. Mostly the second semester where I didn’t fuck up as much.

Fourth Grade

Impressions: Okay, I wasn’t expecting anything really. It was just like, oh great, gotta go back again. Funny as it may sound, I was late on the first day. Like maybe half an hour late.

Friends: Real amazing I think. My best buds Lucas and Rodney were back, and a lot of the guys and girls I knew back then returned as well. I made some cool new friends too like Michael, Leo, William, and Timmy. Although I think I actually knew these guys from after school a year before.

Debacles: Well, I think a huge mishap was in the courtyard at recess. It’s funny because the guys and the girls always bickered over which court they get. It was like this for Foursquare (damn I hate that game), Handball, Kickball (damn that was fun), and even Volleyball which we called something else. Forgot what it was but it was mostly like Dodgeball. Very violent. Then there was… I dunno, tension between classmates? Though when I say tension, I really mean like… very awkward moments and such. It’s.. kind of a long story that I wish not to tell.

Trends: Well, I know Pokémon was still growing strong, but this is when I first got into Digimon, the beneficial factor which would lead to influence my interests today. Yup, it’s all thanks to that franchise.

Overall: Much fun. I really liked my teacher(s) and we got to have computer time more. Oregon Trail!! And that game… the one where you are a fish? That was fun as well. Of course, in modern times these PCs are pretty much mere pieces of JUNK.

Fifth Grade

Impressions: It’s my final year at Lafayette!!! I think I was very knowledgeable for my age here. Well, for most of the time being. Other times I acted so self-absorbed and bastardized, it’s not very funny. The great thing about this year was that my class was the same as last year, save for one new girl. Talk about awesomeness. I can have the last moments with my best friends from long ago.

Friends + Debacles: Still the same great guys. Although… there was this one time that I really got mad at Lucas for some reason. It was a really stupid reason. All because a group of us had kinda quarreled over a ball or something. I attempted to smack Lucas in the shins with a ball too. I dunno what I was thinking, I honestly don’t. That time, he was truly my best friend but I’ve no idea what set me like that. It was just too fucking stupid. I think after that we didn’t talk for a while. We really didn’t have a lot of contact until later on when I showed him the awesomely cool cloning trick in Gold/Silver. He probably still resents me for that moment, but we’re cool now. Of course I could talk to him over AIM but we sure seem to be worlds apart now. He’s about to graduate from Lowell and me Wash. He totally outgrew me too. I remember I was more like his person to look up to, but that sorta dimished later on. We played chess together a lot. I was really stubborn because I didn’t want to lose to him in Chess so I made up a rule and I definitely know he knew it was BS. He knows chess inside and out so I shouldn’t be mocking him like that.

Another oddity was well… more “tension”? Hrmm… Oh yeah, I had to adjust to living in a new house around the end of April. It really saddened me. No more free cable, no more free street roaming… no more Sunset. Instead my new house was amazingly on the same block as Lafayette. The same fucking block. I could just walk a few steps and I’m there! Who the hell’s idea was it to move there in the first place? =__=;

Trends: Okay, this is gonna sound pretty funny. So my friend from 4^th/5^th grade named Wilson Szeto was getting poked around a lot. You know how it was back in the 90s? Asians would wear matching sweaters and pants like pajamas. It’s probably what I’d call the early FOB. That’s what it looks like. Anyways, Wilson was wearing them all the time. His shirt said “Shumakid” on it. Now I don’t know what the hell that meant, but Timmy laughed a lot from that and so he pretty much set the nickname “Shumakid” in stone. Other funny nicknames he got were like “Fidget” and “Mama Szeto.” We’ve done it since 4^th grade but I guess he got fed up with it in 5^th grade. So we had to dumb it down pretty much. But I’m sure he’s cool with it now. I mean, c’mon, we’re teenagers. Get a freakin’ grip, man. Lol

Overall: Pretty good, pretty bad. First time I ever received an F. Little did I know that moment would probably screw me over because I’d be constantly getting Fs once I moved to Middle School.

Til next entry!