Memories of my school days; Weekly Challenge Initiative by Steemit Inc
Memories of my School Days
Classroom Photoshoot in Elementary School
Classroom Photoshoot in Highschool
My Kindergarten years
I have a lot of good and unpleasant memories during my school days. During my kindergarten years, I like kindergarten because I got to eat different foods than as I usually had at home during the lunch, also I get to buy some snacks and candy at the nearby small shop before going back home. My first group dance performance was during the kindergarten graduation ceremony. I remember before the dance performance, the teachers apply some makeup on me and when I looking into the mirror, my face looks colorful and I like looking at myself with the makeup on. That time, I knew, I like cosmetics and anything that makes me look nice.
I went to kindergarten by carpooling with my father's colleague and his son that going to the same kindergarten as me. His son was a little aggressive and likes to tease me. Depending on his mood, he will kick me or threatened to cut me with his box cutter during the ride to kindergarten or going back home. This happening for a long time, I was wondering now why I didn't tell my parents earlier about this boy's behavior. On one fine day, I told my mother I don't want to go to kindergarten anymore. When my mother asked me why; I finally realized the reason why I don't like the kindergarten; the bully boy, finally, after long-suffering, I told my mother about this boy's behavior. After that incident, I went to kindergarten by school bus.
My Elementary School years
In my elementary school years, I remember being a chatterbox whenever I'm with my like-minded friend at school. Every day I look forward to meeting them to play a game during school lunch break and sometimes during the ongoing lessons in the classroom; this made the teacher punish me and my friend by hitting our palms with a long ruler or sometimes just with pinching. At this phase of my life, I think I become a chatterbox with my friends at school because my parents rarely give an ear to me whenever I want to talk about something that interests me or anything that bothers me. I spent most of my school day playing and not care much about learning but my reading, writing and math skill still on par and my test result not that bad too. After school, I will spend the rest of my day at the library nearby our place or reading borrowed books from my school libraries.
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College Year Photoshoot
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Photoshoot with my best friend, Sherly on our graduation day
My High school and College/University years
During my high school years or teenage years, I became timid again just like my early kindergarten years. I have very low self-esteem and try hard to please my friends. I joined the school cheerleader club and dancing club. I feel a little disconnect with them because of their loud and attention seeker's behavior but I don't want to lose my so-called friend, and I like dancing so I just played along. I also had a more quiet and calm friend from the librarian club that I enjoy being around when I'm too tired of my loud friends.
At this stage of life, I thought school/college/university was a place for preadult underage preparing ourselves to get a job in the future. I try my best to be an obedient student, follow the rules and everything that expected of me as a student. Sometimes I break the rule and played too much but I still care about my studies and determined to get my degree and get myself a job. My father did not allow me to have a romantic boyfriend back then, because he wanted me to solely focus on my studies. But that didn't stop my hobby during school lunch break to stalk on some cute boys in the school. I did secretly had boyfriends during my college years but not that serious and merely just for fun.
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My fellow Borneo Cultural dancers during college years
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Performers and dancers for our university cultural nights
With my friends on gig promoting Malaysian Tourism in my university years
My father's job caused me to change the school a lot. Every 3-5 years his department relocates his workplace and the whole family will have to relocate too. I have about 3 different elementary schools, and 3 different high schools back then. I was a bit sad to leave my old school, teachers and friends, but at the same time, I was thrilled to experience a new school too. So I made friends from a lot of different schools. During my college years, I met some of them again in my college and university years.
Overall I'm grateful for the experiences I had from my school days.
Photo Sources; From my personal collection and some from my friend's Facebook account.
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Hi @cryptokannon, thank you for this interesting pick into your life diary. There are many positive and negative events are saved in our memories and both of them somehow influenced our life. I am glad that you opened to your mother the problem with bullying. That is very important as a parent to recognize such moments and try to prevent them.
You have posted such beautiful photographs, I love your traditional dresses hair styles. The colours are so vibrant and make you and your friends to shine.
Lovely post and thank you for your memories :)
@stef1 yes our past memories influence our present life and the way we see the world. I'm still in the process of healing from my past emotional trauma and all the negativity behind it. I was a timid and reserved girl back then and I didn't know how to express myself and my emotions well, this might be due to my parents parenting style that discourages me to express my negative emotion and that made me suppress all those emotions down and bottled them up within me. They said I cannot express mad/angry emotion as that is a bad girl and cannot speak my mind as I please/think because I might hurt other's feelings. Part of my life now is healing myself from all those emotional scars and I have to remove them layer by layer as I start to see life differently than before.