Growing up in PA: Before the Move

ok so i thaught id tell about my early childhood and growing up in PA. again since this is online i cant really tell u my town cuz i dont need stalkers// leave the stalking to me. :P im a good online stalker :P

so my town was a suburb of a bigger city and we never really went to the big city. my family pretty much kept to its small town life. some farms, but mostly just the stereotypical small town atmosphere with very few chain stores and no mall. we did have a movie theater but only the dollar kind with older movies. but that wasnt really a problem for us. we made do. we werent really focused on pop culture.

we lived in a small yellow house on a street 4 blocks from the city park and city pool. we were one mile from the only school in town // yes it was the elementary, middle and high school in one building. i often road my bike or walked to school/ except when it snowed of course. my neighborhood was a main street with six smaller roads off of it that each ended in culdesacs. i lived in the last house at the end of the 6th road// the farthest away from the subdivision entrance. there were 10 kids that lived there and i met my best friend there when i was 4 years old. carson is the best. hes a year older than me but we were always in the same grade. when i moved away we cried together for a whole week. i still talk to him online and on the phone but its not the same any more. i miss him dearly. // anyway we used to play outside all the time. starting when we were 4 and 5 and we used to make mud pies in the back yard and have a MP picnic! the tree in carsons backyard was perfect for climbing and wed sit up in that tree and read books together. wed ride bikes to the small public library and bring some books back and climb the tree. we had a rope and bucket that we would use as a pulley to pull the books up to the higher branches. we had so much fun as kids. i just remember being careless and carefree.

school was always such a bore for me. recess was the only thing that made me smile during the days. i could never stay focused and my teachers never really understood me. in second grade i was actually placed in the gifted class. i couldnt figure out why i was being separated with the nerdy kids. my friends got to stay in class and read with the teacher and i had to go learn how to play mancala and chess with the nerds! i actually enjoyed the reading time with mrs conner and wanted so bad to go back to the regular class during that time.

math was always the hard thing for me. i never won the around the world game and i always felt stupid// which made me wonder how i ended up in the gifted class. ??? in fifth grade i finally understood basic math. ms. grant was very good at helping me learn some fractions//which i hated and still do/ but at least i can do them.

ive got to get some sleep. got a test tomorrow. ill write more about growing up in PA tomorrow during study hall.