My cottage is a treasure trove of memories.
It contains all the small, "unimportant" little things, which are actually very important to me, because they are a reminder and link to the first 35 years of my life.
When I was moving to a new apartment, from the apartment I lived in, I moved everything that didn't find a place in the new apartment to the cottage.
There were a lot of boxes.
Toys, figurines, books, photo albums, glasses...
And all those little things that I have collected and kept for years.
I've already featured some of those little things in the #Hivecollectors community, and what I'm going to write about today, even though it's a great collector's item, still goes to the #Throwbackthuesday community, but since I didn't have time to write yesterday, so tag #TBT, it goes to #TBF today 🙂
Lexicon from my elementary school
The first and only one I've had in my life.
Although it was not overly popular, judging by the number of those who enrolled in it, when I look at the names of my friends, I can boast that I still actively hang out with two of them from that list.
I was in the fifth grade of elementary school, and at the age of 11, I made this lexicon.
It's not exactly a "macho" story, but today, when I look at some of the responses, I'm very glad I had it.
At 38 years old, this lexicon is a real antique in my collection of "unimportant" trifles 🙂
I came across it while looking for a photo in my display case.
I took it out and leafed through it in the pleasant November sunshine in the garden of my cottage.
The names of my friends, questions about favorite food, drinks, perfumes, cars, sports, and the inevitable question: "What would you like to be when you grow up".
A friend, he was a true genius, and now as I read his barely legible handwriting, I can attest to his genius.
At the age of 11, he wrote that he would like to be a biologist or a mathematician and that he would try to understand the theory of relativity.
And today he lives in Amsterdam and works as a doctor of microbiology, having completed two faculties (you can guess which one 🙂).
I scroll further and see what are my friends' favorite seasons, favorite cartoon characters, favorite singers, singers, music groups, movies, actors and actresses.
Among the pages of the lexicon, I come across an invitation to my friend's birthday party. As if through a fog, I remember that party 😀
I asked my friends which team they support, if they like school, and if they have a crush.
I tried to encourage them to share the name of their crush with the others, and one of the answers made me laugh, then, like yesterday: "You're looking, huh?". I recognize a little genius by his handwriting 🙂
I also laugh at the answer: "I didn't watch", to the question about the hair color of the crush...
I collected their signatures at the time, but I didn't get an answer from the little politicians who was their best friend.
They wrote me some verses, what book they read, whether they like to travel, and what they remember from their earliest childhood.
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They told me what they like to get for their birthday, what is their favorite toy and what is their favorite color.
On the last page they had a chance to say Ćao (Hello" to me and I bet when they wrote "Hello" on that piece of paper, they couldn't imagine that someone would look at that signature after 38 years...
And maybe a year later?
We'll see...
Now the lexicon is going on the shelf where it will wait for a few years, and maybe I will take it to a gathering, for example to mark the 40th anniversary of my elementary school graduation.
If I do that, I'm sure that the few of us who wrote to this lexicon will have a lot of fun, at least as much fun as I do, every time I flip through these pages and reminisce about my childhood days.
