Way back when

What were the things that you loved when you were a kid? The things that made you happy and made you smile. My favourite thing in the whole world was animals. Even when my friends were being mean or even if I maybe didn’t feel like I had a friend the thing that could always cheer me up and make me feel loved were animals. I thought that I was an animal whisperer and that I could talk to animals so I used to try picking up bees and when they stung me (which they did) I thought it was just because I hadn’t learnt how to talk to them properly yet.When I grew up I either wanted to be a farmer or a vet.

 I have memories from when I was a child of spending weekends and holidays in central Otago, where my dad grew up as a child. We would spend time going and visiting our friends who lived on farms and had animals and it was always the best part of being there.

 When I was 7 and we moved to Christchurch one of the bribes to try and make me not hate it so much was my kitten. She made me so happy and I spent hours spending time with her, pushing her around in a dolls pram and training her to jump through a hoola hoop in the staircase.

 When I was a kid my dad used also spend time driving me around all the different pet shops so that I could look at all of the animals and day dream.

Animals for me relate to so many good memories of my childhood and growing up but somewhere along the way I forgot about them. I forgot how much they meant to me I got too old and too cool to love animals and spend time with my cats and enjoying being around them. I have started reading a book that has reminded me of my love for animals and rekindled it for me. It’s helped me to remember all the good memories that animals are associated with from my childhood.

 Another thing I have recently remembered my love for is baking, and that’s not just because of the yummy taste but because it reminds me of doing it with my mum and helping her for as long as I can remember

Now there is definitely some things from our childhood we need to let go of like that imaginary friend or my belief that I could talk to animals, but  what is something that you have accidentally forgotten about or left behind that used to make you so happy.

Dig it out and see if it still has the same effect.

Mine does J

Katie D

Snow

I know my last blog was on snow so I'm sorry for the repeat but thanks to the snow Polytech is closed . I am rather happy about this because it means instead of getting up at 6am to truck through the snow and get to class it is 9am and I am still warm, still cosy and still in bed. In honour of that, here are some snow photos.

Stay warm and Enjoy
Katie D