Blast from da PAST.

Here is what my diary looked like ages 7-10, spelling, grammar and all. Anything in italics is 17-year-old Christine commentating.

Dear Direy

Maxine is funny. (The following is crossed out:) Yup, she is, but sometimes she gets tooo mad. She wrote about getting mad in ZOO.

3-3-98
Dear Direy

Shereen is cool, (crossed out, said "a not") and funny. + shes mean.

Shereen, is a tinager! (crossed out said, "wa." I imagine that I realized I had started to spell "whatever" incorrectly.) Whatever. She is very coooCOOl!

Maxine is (crossed out: dum) cool, and (crossed out, the beginnings of "dum" again!) nice.

Shereen *heart picture* Loves Dad! Maxine is cool!

This is when I was older:

Well I'm at the Airport waiting to go to India for a whole year. I hope I have a good time. I am going to miss everyone. Aunty Neng said I have a suprise for me in the Red roller. Well we are going to NY. Well it's 7:27 and I got to go. Aunty Neg just left. BEW!!
Bye.

December 28, 2001 - India, Mumbai

Right now I'm at the airport waiting for our flight. I am in Mumbai, India. We just went to this grreat Restraunt +[Buffut (misspellings of "special") specail]. (Wa wa wa, looks like I can't spell ANYWAY.) We had spaggetii for the first time; in a long time. We have been in India for 4 moths is crossed out months!, because we were going to live here but we is crossed out we sisters couldn't take it any longer!! + (we cannot find a good school). I am having spelling ("probla" is crossed out) problems because we paticually me [because I have not been (crossed out is "going to school") studying my book when people tell me to]!

(A few pages later is hand writing I had when I was young. Looks like I just picked a random spot to write. . .)

Dear Diary (Hey! I spelled it correctly!)

I am sorry mom.