Memorable Days (XIV)

The actual reason why I didn’t go to Rumbai and lived in Manganti instead was because I had a feeling with/ crush on a girl named Eliza. I would say that was my first “relationship” with an apposite sex. Days were always full of flowers and excitements. Eliza was my classmate, she lived in Jopang it’s like 3 km away from my house. So we would go home together every time we come back from school and I could still remember her shy face when we were walking home together in the rain under one umbrella. Besides me there’s actually one boy that also liked her, but I forgot his name if I am not mistaken his name is Iwan, we had a fight to get the girl’s heart. I don’t remember how many love letters that I sent and received from her but quite a few, and would be smiling every time I read them.

The junior school scouts held a camping right on the hill of my village, every one of us would raise a tent and made ditch around the tent to protect from the water stream if there’s a rain. It’s just so fun that we could be around with friends and at night we would circle the campfire and sing some songs.
In the daytime we would do some extra activities like hiking, cooking etc. there was also a so called mobile photographer that we take pictures of us and we could get them later, I also had a chance to be taken picture with my girlfriend at that timeJ

I got some closed friends Iwan, Iyan, Erry, Ferry, Iye, Peli etc. on Saturday night we would stay at someone’s house and did some cooking, the grazy part was the fish cooked was stolen from people’s fish pond or our parents’ fish pond. And we did the same thing on other seasons like Durian season, we were once caught up and brought to the village head for getting adviceL On Sunday my friends and I sometimes went to fishing, there’s a river along our villages it’s called Sinamar, or we would usually go up hill and across the hill to Simun and get some fish to cook.
About 10 km there’s Burai waterfalls which is quite famous, it’s crowded by many people especially over the weekends

On my third year of my junior school I lived with my uncle Arisman’s house, the house was quite big with four rooms. I shared the room with my cousin Adi, he’s just one year older than me. We were both quite close only sometimes we had some arguments over small things, but over all we’re okay. My uncle had a scooter that sometimes I used it for going to school or going to my mom’s house in Manganti or my dad’s house in Maur
I was not very bright at school, the subjects that I liked the most were English, sport and history, and didn’t really like other subjects especially the exact and science, not sure I was a bit weak on those subjects, probably because I fothen missed the class. But I always kept my rank to top ten though and the best I had ever been was the third rank. Before the graduation we all went to picnic to Bukit Tinggi, we walked quite a far distance from Bukit tinggi to Danau Singkarak, raised tents there and had fun.

to be continued...