Seven of my firsts

Two lovely bloggers – Nuttie and adarkcomedycalledlife, whose blogs I recently discovered, have tagged me post 7 random facts about myself. Now, given that I’ve already done tags about honest facts, strange facts and what not, I thought I would take this opportunity to write about my ‘firsts’. So, here it is – yet another dose about T for you to read…

• My first formal sex education/eye opener came from my sister. My younger sister, yes. A rather slow winter evening led me to shamelessly opening up about my ignorance and there she was all ready to go as if she’s been dying to enlighten me on the subject. And the fun part, you ask? It was an informative session for Amma too, or so it seemed. Amma’s “Oh is that how it happens?” “Aaahhh, I see.” “Hmm, now that’s interesting” were all so amusing. If you leave the 4 of us (me, Amma and the two younger devils) in a warm room on a cold winter day and ask us to entertain ourselves, then this is what happens. FUN!

• I got my first very own bicycle to me when I was in 9^th std, or maybe 8^th. I still remember the days when I used to ride the cycle to school…with two devils enjoying the ride blissfully. Three of us on a cycle with three school bags gets heavy, I tell you. But it used to be fun, nevertheless. The beloved cycle got stolen after few months, though .

• I received my first ticket for driving offense in the winter of 2007 on way to New Hampshire for skiing. That was a crazy morning, believe me (maybe a post about that later some day) and I was going about 85mph when the cop pulled me over. And my answer when he asked me why I was speeding was “Well, the road’s going downhill, what am I to do?” As I said, I was tensed about something else and I wasn’t thinking too much. The nice cop reminded me that there was a thing called ‘brake’ on vehicles and that I should practice using that. He let me go with a ticket – not for speeding, but for people in the rear seats not wearing seat belts. Thank goodness, it ended up being much cheaper compared to a speeding ticket, had I received one.

• The first place I visited in the US was Niagara Falls. Beautiful, magnificent, breathtaking. Need I say more?

• On the first day of my last year in high school, I mistook a student to be the physics teacher (not my fault, mind you…the guy was well-built and didn’t look anything like a teenager) and even had a conversation with him while I was still under the wrong impression. Embarrassing? It was, indeed. Funny? It sure is, in retrospect.

• My first ever vacation with close friends was in May 08. Four of us, from three different cities, went to Las Vegas. We roamed around the city, visited Hoover Dam and a park nearby, gambled and lost a bit of money, had loads of fun and returned swearing we would soon plan another trip, but that hasn’t happened, not yet.

• The first ever play I was a part of in school was Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice…I played Portia.

Ok enough about me – this really took me forever to complete. Now it’s my time to be gracious and pass it on for others to have as much fun as I did. I tag Celestial Rays, Psych Babbler, Prashanti,  Dee, Abi, Chotu’s Amma and Matt…go ahead, share some 7 random things about yourself.

Varsh, I haven’t forgotten your tag, just that the creativity that’s needed to do it is lacking in me as of now. Will get to it…soon…I promise.

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