A trip down memory lane

While looking around on Windows Explorer, I came across some pieces of writing that I did a long time ago. These two pieces made me laugh... I honestly can't remember writing either of these. But anyhow, here is a story and a poem I wrote, unedited, in the far-back year of 2006 :)

Pepper

When we first got him, he looked like a rat.

But now that he’s older, I think he’s a cat!

He ate all his food in a blink of an eye,

And once I had watched him, my response was, “Oh, My!”

He can catch flies and things,

And eats them up too,

He goes on the carpet,

He thinks it’s the loo.

The reason why I

Think he is a cat

Is because one day he

Jumped on the table mat

But of course that would never, ever please me!

But Pepper’s a pup,

A sweet little one too,

He just has some drawbacks

You’d love Pepper too. 

Pepper as a tiny little puppy... now he's older and much, much bigger

An Everlasting Friendship 

“Hurry up!” laughed Alexandra as Kayla ran faster as she tried to catch up to her friend. They were in Kayla’s neighbourhood, in Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada. Kayla lived on an acreage. When Kayla caught up, Alex slowed down to a walk. Talking and laughing together, they walked and ran back to Kayla’s house.

It was interesting how the two had only known each other for about two years. Their friendship seemed like it had lasted for a lifetime. The two had met in grade five, at a school called Tempo. It was a private school in Edmonton, Alberta. They had both been the “new kids”. Two other girls, Jessica Redmond and Juliet Verbeke had showed them around the school. That was how they got to know each other. Their friendship developed quickly, and they were best friends in no time. In grade six, while discussing how they became friends, Kayla brought up the fact that she had thought Alex looked funny when she first saw her. Alex laughed and told Kayla that she still looked funny.J They had similar interests, for both loved to read and write. They also owned pets, Kayla a rabbit and Alex a dog. They loved all animals and wanted to become vets when they grew up. They made plans of going to school together all the way up until high school, then going to the same university and finally work in the same office. Both Kayla and Alex also loved being silly and doing cartwheels until they fell down. They were both smart and got pretty good grades, except Kayla didn’t like to study sometimes.J They ate lunch together and spent every possible moment together. Since Kayla lived a half an hour’s drive away from Alex, they didn’t go to each other’s houses that much. However, then Alex’s mom had to go out on a one day business trip to British Columbia, and her dad was in California, Alex called up Kayla and arranged a sleepover.J When Alex got a new dog, a mini schnauzer puppy whom she called Pepper, Kayla was the first person she called to come over and see the new puppy.

Around the beginning of the second half of grade six, Alex found out that she was moving to California. Alex’s dad was in California working for Google, and so Alex and her mom were going to join him. It would only be for two years, and then the whole family would move back to Edmonton. Kayla was still devastated. What if Alex’s family didn’t move back? What if they stayed there? Their plans would be ruined.

A few weeks before the movers started coming, Alex made Kayla a card that said, ”No matter where you are, or where I am, you’ll always be my best friend”. 

The two of us when I went back to visit Edmonton the Christmas of the year I left