Some of My Favorite Childhood Memories

In keeping with the kid theme I just started yesterday I am going to list some of my favorite if not amusing or memorable memories I had growing up. I don't quite remember how old I was but let's just say I was younger than 9 because I'm sure some of you may think that I did this shit like yesterday or something. It's likely, but no.

In no particular order although the first one still applies to this present day...

1. The sound of crickets on summer nights when outdoors (note that I said "outdoors" because crickets indoors annoys the shit out of me).. to this day if I hear crickets at night when I'm outside it'll instantly take me back to when i was under 5 feet tall and wishing summer would never end.
2. Roasting marshmallows on a chopstick over a gas stove with my dad & sister.
3. Getting into a 4 ft tall plant pot filled with water in my bathing suit with my sister and splashing water at each other because we didn't have a pool. I think I was 7 at the time.
4. Picking up a lizard by its tail, having the lizard detach its tail and run away, and realizing the tail was still moving in my fingers for the first time. I screamed my head off, ran into the house and stared at the moving tail from behind a glass door. Keep in mind... it took me NERVES OF STEEL to even have the guts to pick up the lizard.
5. My aunt telling me that I was adopted. Actually, that my parents found me in a dumpster crying as an infant, and took pity on me.
6. After eating chocolate for the first time, I went to the toilet and lifted the lid. I started spitting into the toilet just to do it not because I didn't like chocolate. My spit had chocolate residue mixed in so when I'd spit into the toilet the chocolate residue spit would swirl a bit in the water. At the time I thought it looked like hair so I thought I was spitting out hair and I FREAKED OUT. I just kept spitting into the toilet hoping to get all the "hair" out of my mouth and throat. I believe I was 4 or 5 years old here.
7. In kindergarten at my first school was the first time I was exposed to "American food" like pizza and everything else. At home I was only fed Vietnamese cuisine and the occasional McDonalds. They served lunch to us in the morning before class (I don't know why..) but they wouldn't let you leave until you finished your meal. Seeing as how I had never touched the American food they served me, I never ate anything. So all the yard teachers would just keep an eye out for me as I sat miserably at the table BY MYSELF staring at the food until they finally let me go. I was late EVERYDAY to class. So one time they served pizza, which was gross and foreign to me, so I came up with the idea to stick the slice under my table making it look like I had eaten it. I called over the yard teacher and proclaimed proudly "all done!" and he glanced under the table to see a slice of pizza on the floor next to my feet and asked.. "what's that?" At 5 years old I hated my life.

Hm.. that's all for now. I will definitely have more entries with childhood memories in the future. Thanks for reading and I hope this at least made someone smile.