The Story Of My Life 1/N
The Story Of My Life Part 1
April 8, 2011 - 15:50
I have no idea why I don't start this on a more meaningful day..maybe because 4 x 2 = 8? So, I really just wanted to document my life, but not in a journal format! I mean, that's so boring! Or more like I just can't write about my life. Maybe I'll be famous in a few years! As for the day by day events I'll write, they won't be glorified or watered down. Let's just say, I won't be writing this everyday. Aish, I wish I could write using emoticons or things like "xD" but this is unfortunately supposed to be a formal writing thing that I've assigned myself.
I should probably start by stating my name and basic info. My name is Yuki Lee/李雪莹 I don't know why my English name is Japanese, honestly, I chose it for myself when I could finally change my nationality to Canadian at age six after having emigrated from China when I was almost two years old. I think I heard the name on the subway or something because I just remember always loving the name Yuki...
Anyhow, now I'm 13 years old and I have no idea where I'm going with my life. Do you want me to bore you with all the details of my life? Would you actually be interested? I would say yes, not because my life is always interesting, but because we humans always like to compare what we have, had and think with others'.
Let me skip to the turning point of my life then, and let me tell you, it's only made me fall and fail.
I started swimming when I was 8 years old. It wasn't really swimming since all we did was play around in the wading pool and shallow end, but it was a start! When I was 9, I officially started swimming with TSC, the Toronto Swim Club. My coach was a "phenomenal" guy who always used the word "phenomenal" as praise. His name was Victor and to this day a few years after, I still remember him well. After three months, swimming season was over and so was school. That was the first summer I ever went to any day camp..and I had the BEST TIME EVER!
April 9, 2011 - 1:35
So I'll continue on with The Story Of My Life.
I don't know why I deleted the birth of my little brother from my life. I guess he's just so obviously in my life that I forget to appreciate it.
April 11, 2011 - 21:14
I never do finish entries here. People affect others in the weirdest ways. Whenever I think about Li Tian, I always get a stomachache and my whole body becomes weak. Does that mean that I'm in love? I have no idea. When I think about it, I don't even know why I like him. Sometimes I wonder if I only like him because of all the rumours and shoves my my friends. Of course, you don't even know who he is.
I should explain right?
On August 17, 2009, I got on a plane from Toronto's Pearson Airport to Beijing. I wasn't really sad or nervous, for some reason, I felt like I was free from every care in the world. In a sense, that's what it was. Returning to China for a year or two of school meant shedding the skin I had acquired living in North Toronto for so long. It meant that I could escape stereotypes, familiar places, etc. Honestly, I was pretty happy to leave Canada and if I could, I'd drop everything and go back again.
I went to an elite school in Beijing that quite a few famous Chinese artists, scientists, and other people had graduated from. Stereotypes would say that these people would be snobby rich kids who look down on everything but instead, I found average Chinese teens who were fun to be around, kind and like all humans, a little superficial.
I don't know how to explain what I felt in China with words, it was like a literal dream. Nothing that happened in China felt real... Especially meeting Li Tian.
By the way, did I mention that I kept switching between friends but ultimately, the one I liked the most was an outspoken ELF who declares that she hates Hae but is absolutely in love with him? Yes, I make weird friends. Unfortunately, I only got to know her well when we were going back to school from a long day at a Spring Trip place. Ah, the memories! I remember so much but honestly? To discuss it with everyone would be like telling you all my deepest secrets, that's how much I treasure everything that happened in Beijing.
On to Li Tian. How should I describe him...
So Li Tian is a Qing Dao born Chinese guy who's born on May 2, 1997. He's 7 months and 10 days older than me. (19971212) He is one of those darker-skinned Chinese people and is extremely well-liked. What was weird about my class in Beijing was that we hated and loved each other and actually got around to making "allies" with other classes in our grade to hate on the "high-up" classes! Li Tian would be probably be the most well-liked and most popular guy in our grade! His friends were equally popular and liked but were honestly a little bit overshadowed by Li Tian.
At the beginning of the year, I sat beside Li Tian, his friend Wang Zi Hao and two girls called Bai Yu Chen and Sun Chu Meng. In China, all seats are separated and in columns and rows. Sun Chu Meng was my first friend and I remember very clearly Li Tian laughing at me because I had checked the length of Wang Zi Hao's eyelashes with a ruler for Sun Chu Meng's pleasure. Seriously! They were almost 2 cm long!
Throughout the year, we always changed seats but I always managed to get myself to sit somewhere close to my first acquaintances. I actually ended up liking Bai Yu Chen more than Sun Chu Meng but that doesn't matter in my love for Li Tian at the moment. For awhile, I almost regarded Li Tian as an idol person thing for me. He was sporty, awesome at math, and popular; eh, although in China I seemed to have adopted a personality to being popular. It's that thing about skins left behind.
Li Tian became like an idol to me because he would have been the ideal child for my mother. I feel sorry for my parents sometimes because they ended up with me...pathetic right? I mean, they don't really care about me anyways, and I ain't just bein' emo.
I don't know how the rumours about Li Tian and I spread. It's hilarious because I had so many influential, gossipy friends and yet I never bothered to tune into it all. I couldn't even understand it much. That was how Gao Ang became my friend and Sun Chu Meng went bye bye on my list.
Gao Ang was in my class but she was kinda sorta introduced to me by Sun Chu Meng. I was probably just zoning out in English class one day and "just happened" to be staring at Li Tian. Apparently Sun Chu Meng spread rumours about me and Li Tian liking each other because of that? Crazy...
Unfortunately, Sun Chu Meng was an influential gossiper and I soon became involved in a scandal. Haha, that's probably how I became actual friends with Li Tian though so should I be thankful?
Let's just say it was a painful fact for me when people started pushing me into him and stuff. (sigh)
His cologne smelt pretty nice though, like flowers after a thunderstorm but not sweet and perfumy. Haha, I'm totally smitten. It's funny though because I'd had crushes before but never for longer than I actually talked with the person. Side note: Li Tian barely replies to my sparse messages...should I send more? Wouldn't that make me be viewed as a creeper?
Oh yeah! So Gao Ang loved teasing me about him and always kept an eye on me even if just glancing at him even if just for a second when she changed seats to behind me. The woman just loved pushing and dragging me into his chest, back, stomach or even legs...NOT MY FAULT I'M SHORT! T___T
My favourite memory of Li Tian would be in the snow. That would partly be influenced by my love for snow but also because it was just a really special memory without embarrassment. (Like him giving me a teddy bear in front of the class at the 'going away party' xD)
It was midterms in December and close to the Christmas Show the school was putting up on Christmas Day during classes. Every time we had a break, everyone would run out to have snow ball fights! It was so epically awesome! Don't ask me why but I decided that climbing a tree would be fun and there was this tree in one of the gardens of our school that I really liked. We had the afternoon off to do whatever we wanted so I climbed onto the tree with my iTouch and Eragon and started re-reading the book. Here I should tell you that I had read it already when it first came out but Li Tian had just lent me the Chinese version...xD FAIL right? Also, my dad had won the iTouch at a Christmas ballot at his company's Christmas party. It was a 1G 16GB that had just come out.
I don't know when but I sort of drifted off daydreaming about popsicles and ice cream and all sorts of American fast food. (I was that deprived of stuff like that in Beijing!...not my fault I'm a cheap-ass and I was living at the school dorms!) The next thing I knew Li Tian was calling out to me.
"Wei! Xue Ying! Come down! We gotta go practice for the class rep's performance at the Christmas thing! Hurry up!" (And yes, I translated that and I remember every word..8D /dork)
I looked down to see him leaning against the tree, sleepy and surprised, I whined "I don't wanna goooo!"
He sighed and slapped his forehead...(so cute!)
And yelled "Now! >O<;" (kinda scary...)
I kinda just stuck my tongue out, slid down to a lower branch and jumped down...landing and falling into him.
XD hahaha! Yeh ~ that was the ONE and ONLY time I ever got to hug him, see him blush (oh there was another one but..), and...POKE HIS CHEEKS! (insert hearts and cute expression on a teddy bear)
Haha ~ anyhow we continued life, he continued to make me laugh at almost everything he said genuinely, and I looked at him from afar while denying any rumours, suggestions about my 'everlasting love' (Only for SJ) and working hard to catch up to him in basketball and academics.
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