10 Years Ago

Inspired by Stingoo, I will write about how I was 10 years ago, even though I wasn't tagged (coughs). I am writing merely because I like to remember things.

Ten years ago I was in my last year of high-school, studying hard for the University entrance exams. I was studying Psychology and Biology, sometimes surprised that I liked Biology a lot more. Like most Romanian students preparing for the entrance exam, I used to go to tutoring once a week - Psychology on Mondays and Biology on Saturday mornings. I remember I had my "tutoring uniform," jeans and a jacket, which annoyed the hell out of my sister.

I had been in love with C. for a year and a half, crying myself to sleep, and not realizing the obvious (which I only realized eight years after anyway). Everybody was turning 18 that year, and the popular "sweet 18" parties started to fill up my social and romantic agenda - making out with C. at those parties was pretty much my only romantic involvement. Of course that didn't help with the crying myself to sleep part.

I was also going through withdrawal from not being in the theater group anymore. However, I would "sneak out" to do it. I particularly remember one time when I participated in this show at school (I had to recite a tragic poem about Federico Garcia Lorca), while my mom got her MRI in Cluj and was diagnosed with MS. I felt really guilty.

The year ended well, with me ranking the 7th out of 500 candidates for the entrance exam at the University, going to Bucharest several times ("Oare ce imi place mai mult, sa frec sau sa fiu frecata?"), going to the seaside with my sister, Oli, Bibanu & Ovi (very good times: anchovies burgers, Tanita, dancing, and talking until dawn), the spectacular solar eclipse in Bucharest, and so much more.

Edit: no Solar Eclipse that year. Stingoo says it was in 1999, and I believe him because I know it was a day he loves to remember.