Before my first boyfriend in year 5 (that relationship lasted a day... He liked me, I didn't like him, he was a show off, that has always been a turn off for me. He bought me Tunes for Valentines day, I guess that is all he could afford. He asked me out, I said yes (please don't ask me why, I still didn't like him - at that age you just didn't say no), went back to class and one of my friends was crying o_O - she found out I was going out with him but she had liked him since FOREVER! End of the school day, I dumped him... I didn't want to lose a friend over a guy. ( I watched Moesha/Sister Sister/Saved by the Bell from an early age - I knew what dating was all about -_- ).
I had a girl crush, before I even knew you could 'like' guys. By that, I just mean I thought guys were smelly and dirty, unless they were wearing Reeboks (what can I say? My primary school was predominantly white, it was all about Reeboks and Fred Perry polo shirts) I really didn't want to know! My mum introduced me to her... I remember watching her as Eliza Doolittle in 'My Fair Lady' and falling in like. They gave her a makeover in the film and she was so graceful, so beautiful, she was witty too - sarcastic like me. I have so many posters of her, books, dvds, calendars etc!
I remember when BBC1 announced she had passed away... I cried my eyes out! So weird... at 7 years old, I had identified Audrey Hepburn as a role model. I wanted to be just like her. Not only was she great at her craft, she was a humanitarian and devoted much of her life to UNICEF, her thoughts on a field trip to Ethiopia in 1988 - "that image is too much for me. The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering"!
That may not mean anything to you, but at that age it meant a whole lot to me and it still does.
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