Past and Present.

I saw the Past and Present post written by Rachel Denbow over at Smile and Wave and I was inspired to think about things and put some things into perspective. So here we go.

Past:


- When I was a toddler I had snow white ringlets, this didn't last long by the time I was 4 I had perfectly straight medium brown hair.  It was stayed this way until I got a bob at age 8, then I had one side that curled in and one curled out.  By the age of 12 the  soft curls had come back along with the length.


- I was a total tom boy as a child. Most of my early childhood friends were messy, dirty boys or girls that were very dainty and wouldn't get dirty. It turns out I have always been attracted to complete opposites in people.


- Until I was 9 I lived in a small sea side town in Northern New South Wales, Australia.  It was fantastic whole days at the beach, riding bicycles and playing in the mud, a park across the road and a best friend down the street. My best friend and my brothers best friend were brothers and they had two younger siblings, allowing for amazing games every day of the year.


- When I was younger I was a campaigner for women's rights, including forcing the school and local club soccer team to let me play, and trying to stop my Surf Life Saving club coach's from being so sexist and allow us to create a women's Surf Boat team. I was a success on the soccer teams but not so in the surf boat front.


- I was so proud of myself when I got my drivers licence. My first car was a hand me down, my dad had brought off the side of the road for $500, he wanted it so he could leave it at the truck yard when he was working, then my brother got it, then I put new tyres and a cd player in it and it was officially mine.  The car was 4 years older then me, had lots of rust and was yellow and the sound tracked was usually something from the 60's and 70's.

[1979 Holden TE Gemini - best first car ever]

- I had some amazing memories from school and never understood those people in a hurry to leave.  Why would you go to work when you could hang out with friends and chat all day. 


- I was always better at Maths then English, and have never been as good of a reader as I would like.


- I spent a year and a half at a Steiner School and LOVED every day of it. But when we moved I was forced to go to a State School.  


- When I started Uni out of school I spent 3 years changing courses almost every semester before I eventually ran away to the UK for 2 years. 


- When I came home I finally chose the course I WANTED to do, not the course I THOUGHT others wanted me to do and I was never happier (and my results showed getting almost all straight A's).  I loved my Popular Music Major, especially the classical, technology subjects and other subjects based on the developments of 60's rock.


- My 18th was probably the worst year of my life, losing my nephew, grand-father and one of my best friends within a 4 month period. This really cemented the friendships from school.  We were such a rag tag group but get along like a house on fire and can laugh at ourselves (which I think shows a good friendships)


- When I tell people about adventures of my friends and I over the last 12 years, I often think I should turn it into a book.  Making people laugh was always something I was good at.


-  I have always had great dreams about my future, but due to my intense short attention span each idea never lasted more then 6 - 12 months.


Present:


- I recently completed a Bachelor of Communication and followed this with a Post Grad qualification in Primary Education. I am now supply teaching while I consider the next step.


- I still have no real idea what I want to do with my life. Supply teaching is good but I need more of a routine.


- I'm loving my hair at the moment, I can keep it curly or straighten it with relative ease. (My hair is notorious for doing its own thing even with hair spray).


- I am counting down the days to my first holiday since 2007. I'm heading to Europe and stoping into London to visit friends that I miss.


- I have a dream of moving back to the UK.  Eventually buying a little house with a bit of property to grow plants and have garden parties.


- I really want a new camera so I can develop my love of photography (something I must have inherited my mother).


- My whole life I have been much more at home in the water. Even now I think nothing of getting in the pool and swimming 5km but a 1km run freaks me out. I want to train myself to be able to run 10km.


- While I love to catch up with friends and drink coffee, I also love spending time on my own.  I need to actively make myself go out because I know when I get there I'm going to have a nice time.