Today I am recounting my life. We'll start at the very beginning...
I was born on a glorious Sunday afternoon in late April in New Jersey. After I turned 2, my family picked up and moved to Pennsylvania, into a tiny town called Chambersburg. There, my younger brother Nate was born. After Nate turned 1, we moved YET AGAIN to an even tinier town close by: Shippensburg. My parents taught at the university there, and Nate and I enjoyed a blissful, happy childhood in Shippensburg for a lovely 8 years.
When Nate was 8 and I was 9, our parents called us into the living room all serious-like. Complete with scary parent faces. They told us we were moving to Michigan, which was one of the most horrible things ever and Nate & I spent the next hour having a meltdown and stress-eating mango popsicles.
We moved in the summer. I was SOOO scared on the first day of school, but everyone turned out nice. I am ashamed to confess that I was a total mean girl. I gossiped a lot and I was mean to the girls that were popular because I resented them cuz I wasn't popular. Well, part of it was their fault but most of it was mine :(. I had a diary and when I look back at what I wrote I feel terrible 😭. Michigan will NOT be remembered fondly, btw. We had a car accident, Nate had to go to the emergency room the next day, my parents' jobs were stressing them out, my mom got mad and yelled a lot...
2 years, up and downs, rivalries, friends, and tears later, we moved AGAIN (yeah, we moved a lot) to Boston! Also, that summer we moved was when my umm... body.. started.... y'know...changing. no more details.
I've always gotten perfect grades because that's the asian way! ugh. also, ever since Michigan, i've picked quite a few street smarts and am able to pick out a popular girl and her followers in a few seconds. I still resent popular girls, but not as much because I know I have great friends, and who needs to be popular?
unfortunately in the home stretch of the year (June) my friend and I let Bad Feelings take over. We use Google (ugh i always spell it goggle) Drive at our school and my friend and I shared a google docs with each other and talked on it. (NOT all good things, but not really that mean either) My friend persuaded me to share it with our friend cuz we deleted all the bad stuff. So i said ok and that girl shared it with another girl, who didn't really like us. She revised all our edits to show the not-so-good-stuff and then SHARED IT WITH EVERY GIRL IN THE GRADE. Yep. we got in trouble and all the rumors did the Snowman Effect (that's what I call it when a little rumor gets spread around and then gets bigger and bigger until.. Boom) ... no one saw all the nice things we said and instead Snowmanned the bad stuff. Moral of the story? nothing on the internet is private and don't let your bad feelings take you over.
Anyway, I know y'all are sick and tired of hearing me talk about moving, but yep, my family is moving yet again at the end of this year. we'll be near boston, but I am heartbroken already :(.
That's my story!! thanks for reading it!
💗 Hanna
I was born on a glorious Sunday afternoon in late April in New Jersey. After I turned 2, my family picked up and moved to Pennsylvania, into a tiny town called Chambersburg. There, my younger brother Nate was born. After Nate turned 1, we moved YET AGAIN to an even tinier town close by: Shippensburg. My parents taught at the university there, and Nate and I enjoyed a blissful, happy childhood in Shippensburg for a lovely 8 years.
When Nate was 8 and I was 9, our parents called us into the living room all serious-like. Complete with scary parent faces. They told us we were moving to Michigan, which was one of the most horrible things ever and Nate & I spent the next hour having a meltdown and stress-eating mango popsicles.
We moved in the summer. I was SOOO scared on the first day of school, but everyone turned out nice. I am ashamed to confess that I was a total mean girl. I gossiped a lot and I was mean to the girls that were popular because I resented them cuz I wasn't popular. Well, part of it was their fault but most of it was mine :(. I had a diary and when I look back at what I wrote I feel terrible 😭. Michigan will NOT be remembered fondly, btw. We had a car accident, Nate had to go to the emergency room the next day, my parents' jobs were stressing them out, my mom got mad and yelled a lot...
2 years, up and downs, rivalries, friends, and tears later, we moved AGAIN (yeah, we moved a lot) to Boston! Also, that summer we moved was when my umm... body.. started.... y'know...changing. no more details.
I've always gotten perfect grades because that's the asian way! ugh. also, ever since Michigan, i've picked quite a few street smarts and am able to pick out a popular girl and her followers in a few seconds. I still resent popular girls, but not as much because I know I have great friends, and who needs to be popular?
unfortunately in the home stretch of the year (June) my friend and I let Bad Feelings take over. We use Google (ugh i always spell it goggle) Drive at our school and my friend and I shared a google docs with each other and talked on it. (NOT all good things, but not really that mean either) My friend persuaded me to share it with our friend cuz we deleted all the bad stuff. So i said ok and that girl shared it with another girl, who didn't really like us. She revised all our edits to show the not-so-good-stuff and then SHARED IT WITH EVERY GIRL IN THE GRADE. Yep. we got in trouble and all the rumors did the Snowman Effect (that's what I call it when a little rumor gets spread around and then gets bigger and bigger until.. Boom) ... no one saw all the nice things we said and instead Snowmanned the bad stuff. Moral of the story? nothing on the internet is private and don't let your bad feelings take you over.
Anyway, I know y'all are sick and tired of hearing me talk about moving, but yep, my family is moving yet again at the end of this year. we'll be near boston, but I am heartbroken already :(.
That's my story!! thanks for reading it!
💗 Hanna