Friday, August 24, 2007&& My Childhood
My Childhood
I was named Amelia Mary Earhart after my grandmothers Amelia Josephine Harres and Mary Wells Patton. My sister, Muriel, nicknamed Pidge, and I always explored our neighbourhood for interesting and exciting pursuits. Pidge and I used to climb trees, hunt rats with a rifle and even belly-slamming our sled downhill. It was really fun. We used to keep "worms, moths, katydids and a tree toad" gathered from our outings. Well once I tried to build my own roller coaster after seeing one during my trip to ST. Louis. I emerged from the broken wooden box that had served as a sled with a bruised lip, torn dress and a sensation of exhilaration. I exclaimed, "Oh, Pidge, it's just like flying!" When I was about eleven I saw my first airplane at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines. My father tried to interest me and my sister in taking a flight. However, at that point of time I saw the plane as nothing but a thing of rusty wire and wood and not at all interesting. While my parents were a trying to find a small home in Des Moines, my sister Muriel and I stayed with our grandparents. We were home schooled until our family reunited in Des Moines. Then we went to public schools with me entering seventh grade.
making history.
3:38 AM
