I moved to France when I was six and came back when I was seven, and so I had to go through two separate phases of "everything you know is wrong": I started 3rd grade not knowing to capitalize "I" because you don't capitalize "je," I wrote "7" wrong when I got to France, learned how to write French "7," and then when I came back that was wrong. (I also had to learn two kinds of cursive! Which is why I can't do cursive now.)
I'm kind of embarrassed at how old I was when I learned that the ATM isn't an infinite magic money machine (especially considering that I heard "Oh no, we're overdrawn" from my mom a million times).
I didn't understand that I was supposed to be embarrassed (or at least quiet!) about the fact that I was born to unmarried parents.
I didn't understand that I couldn't be Catholic just because all my classmates were. (I also kind of wanted to be a nun, but that was because boys were terrible and I didn't want to marry one.)
I didn't understand why my mom was weird about me reading the Jehovah's Witness magazines at my grandma's house.
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Date: 2014-11-18 01:19 am (UTC)I'm kind of embarrassed at how old I was when I learned that the ATM isn't an infinite magic money machine (especially considering that I heard "Oh no, we're overdrawn" from my mom a million times).
I didn't understand that I was supposed to be embarrassed (or at least quiet!) about the fact that I was born to unmarried parents.
I didn't understand that I couldn't be Catholic just because all my classmates were. (I also kind of wanted to be a nun, but that was because boys were terrible and I didn't want to marry one.)
I didn't understand why my mom was weird about me reading the Jehovah's Witness magazines at my grandma's house.