| Goodbye Old Friend
Last weekend was a picnic/BBQ filled one. Saturday, was my old grade school, Saint Frances Cabrini's, farewell picnic. My grade school is closing its doors after a long bout with low enrollment. I spent my 1st to 8th grade there. Lots of memories, though a lot not so happy ones. 
I was the only one in attendance from my year. lol. Or at least from what I can recall. To be honest, its been 14 years since I saw some of them so I might not even recognize them. I hung out with a couple of them here and there, mostly by accident in my small town, and one (filipino) even went to my college but he is more white washed than I am.
In grade school, I was pretty awkward. I was the second tallest in my class, I had the promiscuous girl going after me (setting the tone for the rest of my life huh? lol), and didn't hit my own stride until my final years there. I lived in the shadow of my older brothers who also went there, so I had a lot of negativity to overcome from teachers and students alike.
My old principal was there, she recognized me off the bat. "You and your crazy hairstyles" she said. She made me shave my head bald right before 8th grade pictures for having a shaved mushroom cut. Apparently, shaved areas of the head was against school's "policy" though there wasn't anything on paper on that. She also suspended me several times and nearly prevented me from graduating.
I spent most of my time with my family and playing with my niece. lol. We went into the Moonbounce and she was confused. She couldn't stand up on her own! lol. So I jumped a couple times with her in my arms and she liked that but when I tried to help her stand up on her own, she would sprawl on the ground with a confused look on her face like "why is the ground shaking" look. It was cute. 
They had a little fixings bar for ice cream to which I pigged out on. I ate 6 cups of ice cream under 30 minutes. I had a stomach ache when I headed to my friend's BBQ that night. I ate like one stick of BBQ at his place because I was so stuffed. lol. Saw some people I haven't seen since last summer. My summertime friends. hahaha.
Sunday was my parent's Filipino Association's picnic. It was really bad timing since it was also the same day as the Filipino Day Parade in NYC, but its ok. Played with my little twin cousins. They are hilarious! We were playing catch with a football and they would run under the ball and catch it with there face! lol. They would laugh and say "I'm ok". Too cute. I'm going to train them to be little sports stars. bwahaha. They already play organized soccer, one of them just runs around like a chicken with its head cut off, and the other just sits and plays in the grass. Yeah, that's MY cousins for you. lol.
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