My random 24

I picked out just 24 moments from a large pile of memories because today happens to be my 24th birthday🎉🎊.
I can only choose the moments my brain's memory storage allows me to access and i think that's from around 4-5 years old.
Okay, so, first will be the day i went for the last vaccination injection at our local clinic with my friends. I have no idea why it stands out but for some reason it was fun getting pricked together and then talking about it all the way home😁.
On second place is the day i lost one shaking tooth to a stalk of sugar cane. I must've just removed the tooth, rinsed up and kept chewing with the remaining few, like a bawse. Those that were there might disagree but that's okay.
I'll skip to preschool graduation for the third. I had a full-permed head, with a red '2-piece' outfit and I remember standing in my long gown, holding the graduation certificate and a gift box of toys and feeling like i'd made it in life. 🎓🎀. Lil' one sure had no idea what was in store for her.
My first day of grade one deserves a spot. This time with a fully-chopped, almost bald head and a light-green new uniform for Chamarare primary school, i was ecstatic. There was just something cool about wearing a uniform for the first time😆. Many years later i'd be so eager to get rid of it.
The first assembly that day will be the 5th moment. We stood in lines in front of our classes facing the flag pole. I was very excited. The idea of having my lil' hands beaten (or the classic hitting of finger tips with a duster) for misspelling 'dangerous' had not occured to me yet.
Cleaning up those hands after eating one too many mulberries is definitely memorable coz that was sort of an emergency. Showing up at home with hands that look like they had been dipped in purple paint all day could owe you a beating. And water wouldnt help remove the stains😭; we had to rub them off with green, unripe mulberries. (Look at us being scientifically-inclined at such a young age😎)
When i was in grade 2; i was one lil' titan man. I prayed in church in front of hundreds of people while standing on a bench; recited full Bible stories and verses and was confident enough to sing without worrying about pitch transitions.
I'm also going to insert here the time my friends and I cut out a white cloth and made our own bandanas those days when they were reigning😁. We'd just watched the last episode of Taina where 3LW sang 'no more' and we felt so fly imitating the moves with the crayon-coloured 'bandanas' on our heads. (Awesome childhood friends i had)
On number 9 will be the day i failed a Shona exam for misspelling 'hanzvadzi'. Mxm. I can't be blamed really.
Ten. In 3rd grade, we did a Sunday School drama in church where i gave an Oscar winning performance, singing a song crying real tears. I should totally seek out my long lost acting talent.
The slightly scary moment i'm about to write will take the eleventh spot. One sunny afternoon as i was washing dishes after lunch; i suddenly lifted up my head to meet a long snake glued to the window right in front of me. Yup. It was outside though. Snakes were not rare at all; we basicaĺly co-habited😆. I screamed all the way back to the sitting room where the rest of my family was.
5th grade began the adventures of 'boarding school at nine years old' (dramatic music). The details are on my other blogpost with that title. (#12)
Number thirteen will be the day i perfomed 'Mari ndiyo musimboti' by Mai Charamba in front of the class, using cut out pieces of paper as money and staging up a performance so impressive i won the lil' talent contest we were having there.
I'll give the next 3 spots to boarding school moments ranging from singing while beating trunks in our dorms; having mummy visit with my then newly-born baby brother and all the whooping my teachers gave me through the years.
Number seventeen, the school trip to Victoria Falls. It was soo much fun. When we got back, (#18) we had to write about what we saw and my essay won (kid's been writing for a while😉). It's still mysterious to me what I did with the prize money though. I'd be a lil' consoled if i at least bought 'milko' chocolate with some of it but there's no trace of it in my memory right now😞.
Oh my last day at Gokomere CPS when we got our grade 7 results and i found out i had 4 units will be my nineteenth. Now i was sure i had legitly made it in life.
Number 20 and 21 will be  given to adjusting to high school life and disliking the first two terms. Blaa. I just remembered history class learning about homo sapiens and Ramapithecus? 😁. That's the only subject i had very close to a 100% at the end of the year.  Clearly evolution stories and this story-lover got along very well.
 Twenty two; (Angelic opera) is the day i got born again at 14. Beautiful beautiful day it was, my goodness. There are some details on the kind of experiences that followed in 'Fun in the furnace.' I started seeing life in a whole new way man.
23 & 24 are just two numbers which wouldn't do justice to the inumerable moments in-between that I'm truly grateful for. I have cried, both ugly and silent, and laughed at myself and talked to myself and walked through the whole alphabet of crazy and learned to look at myself through my own eyes. But above all, I have never been without the presence of the Almighty and that. makes. every. moment. worthwhile 🙌.

I would like to hear about you guys' outstanding childhood memories as well. Be free to share them.