Blog 43 - Present

As you get older, I feel that presents become more and more predictable and they are not as special as when you were younger.  I still enjoy receiving presents and being surprised, but I was much more excited as a little kid.  I still remember Christmas when I was about seven or eight years old.  I never knew what my presents would be, but I spent countless hours trying to guess them and figure out what they were before Christmas.  I would sneak around my parents room when they weren’t home just trying to find them since I was really impatient.  But that year, as always, I couldn’t wait till Christmas morning.  That morning I went downstairs and opened my gifts.  I was shocked to see that my grandma gave me a remote control jeep.  To a little kid, this seemed like the coolest and most advanced piece of technology you could own.  I was fascinated by the idea that you could control a car without any wires or cords.  I played with this toy for hours, trying to run over my other toys and race around the house.  This was the first toy that I really enjoyed more than my power rangers.  But even though this was my favorite present growing up, the best gift I have ever been given is probably my laptop.  After graduation, I was looking around for computers that I could take with me to college.  I was not expecting it, but my parents ended up buying me a laptop as a graduation present.  Like many other kids, I am not sure what I would do without one in college.