1. When I was four years old, we went to Eurora. I don't know how, but I didn't see a very big statue, I walked straight into the left leg of it, and it hurt my head. Here is a photo of it:
2. I used to be scared of the noise paddlesteamers make when they let steam out of the thing on top of them.
When we were at Echuca when I was five, I was getting my photo taken with the Emmylou, and it let steam out at the same time Dad pressed the button on the camera.
I ran to our car, which we were standing in front of, and I tried to jump through the window because it was down a bit. I still have the photo. I thought it would have me running to the car, but it only looks normal. Here is a photo of the Emmylou:
3. Another time that we were at Echuca, when I was eight, I had bought some soap and was in the bathroom washing my hands with it, seeing how much lather I could get. It looked nice, so I went and showed Mum and Dad.
Mum asked me for an icecream, which I got for her, but because my hands were wet, the last three fingers of my right hand got stuck to the ice on the bottom of the freezer. It happened twice because it was like a magnet. The first time, I could pull my hand away. The second time, I couldn't. Even Mum had trouble.
Two of my fingers became frostbitten and I had to have then bandaged for about two weeks. It was annoying. I couldn't write, either.
4. Last year, the first time I went to Sydney, I couldn't eat all of my tea. I thought there would be a cupboard for a bin, kettle and ironing board, like in most motels. I went to the cupboard and opened the door, looking for a bin.
It wasn't a cupboard. What I had thought was a door was really a mirror, and I had pulled it off the wall. It fell on the floor and broke. We had to get a different room, but we didn't have to pay for the broken mirror. The bin I was looking for was in the bathroom.
5. This year, there were cups of jelly in our fridge. I wanted to see what would happen if I tipped one upside down. I thought the jelly wouldn't move, but it fell onto the floor.
6. When I was six, we went to Swansea in Tasmania. I walked down the stairs in my sleep and woke up in an armchair. I don't know how I did it, because the stairs were the kind that have a landing.
7. When I was ten, I heated a chocolate flavoured Sara Lee pudding in the microwave for two minutes. The microwave never worked again, the pudding was not edible, the plate it was on had to be thrown out and there was steam.
8. A few years ago, I was trying to read the label on a cup of Fantastic Chicken noodles to see where they were made. The cup slipped out of the label, and boiling water went on my hand and burnt it.
9. One day, we were on a bus, and Mum asked me if I could reach the button from where I was. I thought she meant I had to press it, so I did, because I forgot where we were and thought it was time to get off. It wasn't our stop. No one got on or off. I've lived here all my life, so I should have realised! (But it was a different route to what we usually go on).