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If you’d like, you can take a short trip with me through some memories I encountered the other day, if not just skip this entry entirely.

That first house was the very first house I lived in when I reached the United States, but this picture is it, over ten years later.

This is the second and more memorable one, and shortly after I took this picture, I walked up, knocked on the door and admitted that I’d lived there previously and then asked to take a quick peak around. My room was so much smaller than I remember.


When we reached the school and found it was still open, my mom and I wandered in, and I was shocked to find they had changed nothing. It looked identical to when it did ten years ago.

This was the main hallway.

This was a favorite spot for Mallory and I, we used to pretend we were aliens and hide from the other children in those trees, set up as a house just for us and our imaginations.

My two favorite teachers- Miss Brewer and Mr. Hassett. I was able to talk with them, discuss the several hits our public schools are taking, politics, and of course catch up a little. All and all, it was an amazing day.

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Sabine spoke on March 25th, 2007 10:16 pm with the words:

*smiles*

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Rachelle spoke on March 26th, 2007 8:41 am with the words:

I remember some of those places. :) I also remember learning the viola in that cafeteria and who would’ve thought that this many years down the road and I’m still playing!

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kindigo spoke on March 26th, 2007 11:12 am with the words:

Dude, Latchkey.

The Elmwood house, that was the waterbed house wasn’t it? With the really small, twisty staricase? And the Randolph house was where my room was tiny and had the slanted roof to the ground, and you had the downstairs room with the Cubby Closet of Justice? Or am I mixing?

For those of who who don’t know, those two houses’ backyards touch each other kitty corner =D We only moved around the block 90°. Weird huh?

Thanks for the picture of the school; notinterestingly, in my memory I mix that hallway and the ER middle school one in my mind- turning left in that picture would not lead to the Willow Hill music room but the ERMS gym. Am I weird? Does that make sense?

Stop making me ramble down memory lane (hee) with all these posts, damnit!!11one.

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Bronwyn spoke on March 26th, 2007 11:23 am with the words:

Aww. I wish I could revisit the places of my past. Things change around me so quickly. My elementary school is different…or rather the playground was replaced. The teachers and principal have all left. And I still live in the house I grew up in, except it’s since been tainted with the pas few years. Old childhood memories have been replaced with more recent negative ones. My high school which I graduated from only 4 years ago has been completely renovated and rebuilt from the inside. The only thing familiar (those teachers are gone too) is the front entrance. I mourn them! I’m happy you could revisit your childhood without having to rely on your memory. :)

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Mal spoke on March 26th, 2007 7:36 pm with the words:

good lord.
is it wrong that i loathe the place?

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Bonamy spoke on March 27th, 2007 1:07 am with the words:

Shelly- yes! The viola! When I moved to Elk Rapids, they didn’t offer orchestra, so unfortunately I had to drop it. I don’t think I ever recovered…

Kiki- Yes- Elmwood was big, waterbed, and Rudolph was the one where we shared the small upstairs room until I moved downstairs. You had the brick chimney going through your room. It was always roasting.

Bronwyn- I’m glad I could too, as you probably understand more than most- as reliable as it FEELS, our memory can’t really always be reliable.

Mal- I didn’t know you did. I get upset too, but I don’t hate it at all. I guess I don’t remember most of the bad stuff. But I do remember the time you, Shelly and I were yelled at in that exact hallway because they said we were fighting in the bathroom.

It was the one thing I didn’t actually do but got in trouble for anyway.

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