A Glimpse of Me

One of the things that I like about traveling is to get to know the history of a place or city. A trip to the museum or a simple chat with natives living in the place for a long time would be very enriching. It would also be great to collect some souvenirs to take back home. They don’t have to be bulky or big—bringing home a little something that would remind me of a trip is good enough for me.

When we go on trips where the kids could not tag along, it would always be fun to show them what I got and tell them stories I heard about the city or country we have visited, and show them the memorabilia I collected as well.

This made me think, what would be a good thing for the kids to collect? Most kids collect stickers or toys, but it would be great if they started collecting something that they could also learn from like coins from other countries, or maybe postcards from different parts of the world. When it comes to collecting something, it would always be best to start at a young age. If ever Schenker or Samantha wants to collect coins, I could buy silver coins online to get them started!

Hubs and I love watching movies. It is just so refreshing watching a good movie together. We would spend the the weekends laying down on our couch, feeling cozy and snuggling up together to enjoy a movie together.

BUT that has changed now!

Those were the days when we had the luxury of time watching a movie together. We can no longer find the time. With work and family demands, hubs and I would now occasionally seize whatever opportunities we can find to watch movies at home. It is now no longer a luxury, but a rare occasion.

I am grateful for the vlc player download so we could watch movies anytime.

Music plays an important part of our lives. Even little babies enjoy music. When I was pregnant with my kids, we played lots of classical music so our little unborn babies could hear some music. We read that music will have with the brain development and develop the intelligence in them. We would play loud music with american audio mixers, and sometimes the music would be too loud even the neighbours enjoyed it.

Needless to say, a good sound system was vital in the brain development of my children.

I really think that boys and gadgets do have special relationship. My son doesn’t have a lot of gadgets. I let him use my computer for school work and my Sony DSLR for him to practice and that’s all. But with almost every kids now owning one or two gadgets, my son couldn’t help but wishing he has any of those, too. But being a concerned parent, I don’t want him to have any of those at this early stage.

So what does he do? He would draw things and pretend it’s his gadget. He would even do draw model cars and model planes! He is creative that way.

I am so proud of him.

It has been a long time since I was in high school, in fact it was in another lifetime(LOL). But now that I’m teaching high schoolers, some of the memories are flooding back. I remembered the times when I was cramming for final exams, going to my junior prom, going up the stage to receive my award, passing through the halls with lockers and having fun. I may have a different experience than my students now but in a way we are all passing the same stage. The stage between childhood and adulthood, the time where we shape our lives, and the time where we experience a lot of firsts.

Most of the time, it was very hard and discouraging but with the help of our peers, we are able to survive. Graduating from high school was a very emotional event for me. I met my friends there, friends who until now I am still close with, and I was sad because we are parting ways and changing paths, I was sad to leave my mentors who taught me more than the academics. It was the best part of my life, better than college. Now that I’m writing about it and remembering the good times, it makes me tear up. Not of sadness but because of happy memories.