kganihanova's blog

Kamila, Age 1: Sleeping without mommy, school of crying

Kamila Age 2: Potty training, school of hello kitty mini toilet seat

Kamila Age 3: Eating without getting anything on myself, school of sage old person aka grandma

Kamila Age 4:  First plane ride, school of mommy's lap

Kamila Age 5: learning english, school of mommy

Kamila Age 6: adding and subtracting, school of candy

Kamila Age 7: pretending my halloween costume didn't rip during the halloween costume parade, school of life

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Kamila Age 16: How to drive, school of worried father and 

Kamila Age 17: How to pretend that I love learning about the same things we learned about on college tours,

school of senioritis.

There are many milestones missing but only because those were my VERY active years. Everyday I learned something new. As things calmed down, the learning process slowed down as well but bigger things were explored, life skills. School was my place for learning theoritical things not practical things, thus I have no major memories of it.

Education in school pales in comparison to education in the real world. There are things that cannot be learned from a book but must be learned the hard way. Self confidence for one, one cannot learn self confidence from a book, one must learn self confidence from life experiences (and hard knocks). I, like every teenage girl, struggled with my self image for that brief horrible time in my adolesence. It took not school but personal experiences to teach me that I indeed was beautiful.

Writing my educational autobiography was fine...for the first few pages. To muster the third page, I had to dig deep and really remember the little things that did not right away occur to me. That made me think about myself and I'm grateful that I got to do this assignment.

Hey I'm Kamila and I'm from Central Jersey. I enjoy swimming, crocheting, and drinking copious amounts of caffeine. I'm uzbek/ new jerseyian. I honestly don't know sometimes, my heritage is from uzbekistan but my childhood occured in new jersey and all my memories come from there. Its just really complicated. I'm still growing and developing as a person but I"m okay with that, I hope I grow for the rest of my life. I want to be a journalist and lawyer. I am currently a freelance copy editor, writer, and journalist. I'll probably think of more after I post this but this is off the top of my head, everything that's noteworthy about myself.