Nik Fared Firdaus Bin Nik Mansor 16313
Wan Abdul Azeem bin Wan Rahim 16289
My Favourite Childhood Memory
Mr. Selvackumar asked us to write, "A Favourite Childhood
Memory". When I took my pen, I had many memories from my childhood.
Just like Mr. Selva today in class said, "Brainstorming". Which one should
I choose? I feel it's difficult.
So tough. I have lots of fleeting glimpses of childhood, but I don’t
really know which ones are real memories, and which ones have been
created through repetition of stories. Shared memories, I suppose you
could call them. So I think I’m going to go with a story type memory,
about a river.
In my hometown there is a river. After school, many students went
there and swam, but my parents didn't allow me to swim there. One
reason was every year almost one or two people died in the river. The
second was I was very thin and weak, my parents worried about that.
One afternoon, I didn't have class; my friends and I went outside
to play. We went to the river and they swam in the river, they were very
happy. I stood on the bank. I really wanted to swim, but I was afraid,
at that moment one friend talked to me, "The water is shallow. You can
swim in here and I can teach you."
“A girl wanted to teach me how to swim? What a shame?” I said
that in my heart. My face turned red.
I walked down to the river and she taught me. After half an hour
she said, " You practice in here, I want to swim a while." I practiced again
and again. When I stood up, I felt the water was deep and I sank in the
water. Suddenly a hand caught me. It was my friend.
I went home, I didn't talk to my parents. After a week my parents
knew that event, they were very angry. My father has a friend, he knew
that thing and told my father, "Your son is very thin, she needs to do
exercises. I can teach her to swim." My father thought he was right and
allowed me to swim. Therefore I could swim everyday.
I guess my favourite childhood memory is freedom. Freedom to run
and play and just be, in the sunshine.
