donderdag 1 september 2011

My life until now... (Part 1)

My name is Toby van den Brand, I am currently 19 years old, I was born on October 28th 1991 and I am currently living in a little appartment of my own in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Sadly i don't remember anything from before i was about four or something and even after that most of it is all a big blur.
My Parents lived in Den Haag when i was born, 2 years later they moved to Gouda, I don't remember that but after that i remember some days and events...

Some major days and events in my youth (up until about 4th grade or something) were:

- The day we went on a school trip when i was 7 years old, i cried until my loungs were sore because i didn't want to go.
- The day my brother decided to jump off his bed and plant his teeth into the side of my head... Maybe this is why i can't remember parts of my life.
- My father was a dj back in those days XD
- Cartoon Network taught me to understand english and also speak it a little.
- I never got my junior swimming license because i was sick on the last day of school.
- We had to go to day care sometimes, but we had a Nintendo 64 there and that was sweet. Also because we had diddy kong racing and nobody could beat my brother at that, so eventually he just went solo with that game and everyone watched and cheered everytime he got 1st place... My brother the hero, some of the best days ever!
- We had a sweet playground right in the middle of our street, SWEET! but about 5 minutes walking away was an even bigger and WAY sweeter playground so that was fucking AWESOME!
- My grandparents visiting from America sometimes, they would bring fruity loops, which weren't available in Holland at the time, so super sweet!
- A friend of mine called David, wow, I just now realize i haven't spoken to him in a decade... wonder how he is doing... Not even sure his name was david now... Damn...
- My one autistic* outburst in class... I was working, the teacher was gone for some minutes, everybody was yapping away (3rd grade mind you) and I couldn't work that way. I remember thinking to myself: "Just ignore them and keep working. Just ignore and keep working." Eventually I yelled and I mean REALLY YELLED: "WOULD YOU ALL JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP, I AM TRYING TO WORK HERE!" bursting into tears and kept crying. Everybody was shocked of course, teacher came back saying: "Who was that?" "Toby..." the whole class replied... *more on my autism later
- The day our pet guinea-pig died, i cried and i cried. I was hoping my mother lied, but there in his cage he died, right by our side... And in the most awful way too, as it seemed later on, it was very hot that day and he had too few water to drink (we were away that day) so the way we found him was hanging by his teeth from his cage ceiling... :'(
- The day my brother decided to make our living-room floor real slippery with a lot of water and some soap, and we glided on our bellies all day long until our parents came home, furious of course. And the next day we all got pain on our bellies from the gliding... but still another one of the best days ever!
- Having new-year's sleepover with all the kids in our family and neighboorhood...
- Having a mini-christmas tree as a nightlight...
- Getting a Nintendo 64 from St. Nicholas! AWESOME!
- Celebrating St. Nicholas (5 december) with a LOT of presents and some family, celebrating christmas (25 and 26 december) with not so much presents but with a LOT of family...

There are probably some more events i can come up with but for now I'm empty...
In the summer of 1999 we moved to Alphen aan den Rijn and that's where some of the mist in my memory starts to clear and i have a better view of what is happening...
More on that Somewhere in the near Future!

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