Tuesday, October 22, 2013

The First Friends of My Life

By Mitchell

            My first day of Nursery I was taught that we are all friends and that violence is not right from nursery to prekindergarten I followed that rule. But in kindergarten that rule started to slide away from my mind because I had met two kids that changed me. In kindergarten I had the most fun because these two friends that were amazing to play with, their names were Buddy and Quin. Quin was a very small dude he was about 3 feet tall and he got chased around a lot by the girls a lot of how cute he was. Buddy was an average size kindergartener who was very active and was not shy at all. We used real toys occasionally but not as much as we used our imagination we pretended we were jedi, super heroes, monsters or all sorts of things. We never did the same thing each day.  Most of the things we did we weren’t allowed to do because it was violent. We didn’t care we were in kindergarten.
            While we were playing imaginary swordplay with our light sabers (or sticks) we were threatening each other. We were playing all over the playground running around chasing each other. The teacher didn’t know that we were playing a violent game.  After a while she spotted us in the “peaceful kingdom” so she yelled at us from the other side of the playground.  We didn’t hear her the first few times because of how loud we were, and she got really mad after that and she came over and told us to stop or we would sit down for the rest of recess. She told us nicely at first but Trinity, Buddy, and I still kept playing, but with less enthusiasm than before. I played with the least of energy of us three.  I didn’t know why we kept playing this game. Then the teacher came over a second time and she yelled at us and I crumbled to the ground right in the middle of her yelling after a few seconds I ran to the big thing with the slide in the corner and cried. After the teacher stopped yelling at each of them both Buddy and Quin came over to me and asked why I was crying and if they could help and they helped me stop crying.  The teacher was a substitute so I held a grudge against her so I didn’t talk to her for the rest of the day and whenever she substituted, in the future I don’t even remember who she was.
The rest of the day Quin, Buddy, and I just kind of talked about Star Wars. And she didn’t care about that at all because we stayed far away from her whenever she substituted. The next day we started to play something different: superheroes and the teachers thought it was ok as long as no one got hurt. Occasionally we got hurt. Sometimes one of us was getting chased, sometimes all three of us were getting chased by the rest of the class. Either way we had fun doing it. Most of the time teachers didn’t notice because they couldn’t keep track of us because we were too fast for anyone in our minds. Even during nap time we were restless. Trinity, Buddy and I always found a way to make anything exciting for a Kindergartener.

Lately I might have seen Trinity playing lacrosse, but I’m not sure. Buddy I saw at a basketball camp that I went to and I found out his real name was Nicky at the end of the camp. It looks like we still have the same interests though except for imaginary swords and the Force. Now that I know they still live in the area I’m going to need to have more “dangerous” adventures with them some time.

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