I am the original Dora.

     If I could revisit any age of my childhood, I would have to say I would choose eight. Why? Because at that time, I became aware of things in life, but was still innocent enough not to care. And I was practically Dora the Explorer when I was that age (in all honesty, I've never seen Dora the Explorer, so I don't actually know what it's about... I just liked exploring..).
    Because I lived in a very small community (even smaller then New Hamburg. Our high school had six feeder schools, and there was about 700 students... HICK TOWWWN), everyone knew everyone, and I'd been friends with the same group of kids since birth. As much as this kind of sucked, since there was never any new people to meet (maybe that's why I have no social skills...?) it was great, in the sense that everyone was really accepting of you, because everyone was like your best friend.
     BACK TO THE SUBJECT OF HICK TOWN; My absolute favourite thing to do was to spend time with the animals though. Have you ever just sat with a baby calf? SO CUTE. I was a little farm kid, and ever since I was born, I was around animals. We had cows, horses, pigs, chickens, turkeys, cats, dogs, rabbits, hamsters, sheep, and at some points we had goats, potbellied pigs and I even had a pet salamander at one point. (FUN FACT: I know how to milk a cow, and for a large portion of my life, all of my food was homegrown or homemade).
    I used to love exploring, which I could do a lot of on the 20 acre farm I used to live on. My parents both worked (to be honest, I wasn't really aware that I had a dad until I was six.. I thought he was one of my mom's friends. He was a navy peacekeeper, so he wasn't really around. That sounds a lot more depressing then it should. I think it's funny) so I had all day to do whatever I wanted. Also, at this time in my life, people still thought I was a genius, so I didn't even mind going to school. But saying what I would do at school is no fun, so let's just say I'm on summer vacation. There's so many things that I would do. Depending on the day, I had either some form of dance, gymnastics, figure skating or cheerleading (haaaa....), and if I didn't have any of those, I would be either at Dollar Lake or at home exploring, horseback riding or reading. For games, I would play explorer, and whenever I had friends over, I would always build some sort of fort, either in the woods or in one of our barns (Hay lofts are the best places to play. Seriously). Also, I loved Pokemon. Honestly, who didn't?
       And I think it would be fantastic, for just one day, to not have to worry about things like applying to universities or when I worked next was (except not really.. cause I don't have a job anymore...).