LiFe'S lEsSoNs...

One of life's lessons for me is my fear of animals. Sure, I am fine with hamsters, or caterpillars, but if you ever see me in front of a dog, or even a cat, I would absolutely freak out even though I LOVE DOGS SO MUCH!!! But of course, then there is monkeys. I HATE monkeys.

One day, I was walking along MacRitchie Reservoir in Singapore with my grade 4 class. We had stopped or a snack at the snack shack, or the place you eat so the monkeys don't attack you. But of course, the monkeys were there. So as soon as we got got our snacks, the monkeys came. First they were mellow, just annoying us. Then all of a sudden they were beyond aggressive. They were HORRIBLE! They scared us so much and charged at us from left and right. By that time we had huddled in to a circle and were close to crying{well, i was anyway...} and all the ranger was saying was "Don't move" again and again but how were we not supposed to move? They were charging at us from every corner. We were all thinking,"So, you want us to stand still and get scarred by their teeth and hands?" Finally, after a long time of getting freaked out, the monkeys had no more interest in attacking us so ran away. Then the ranger did something. Told them to go away. We were all like "Thanks" in a sarcastic tone, then walked off... By then I was wailing. And NOBODY ELSE WAS!!! I couldn't stop! It was cry cry cry, cry cry cry, wahhhhhhhhh! Until my friends, teachers and parent helpers finally calmed me down. I never went to MacRitchie Reservoir again.

So, you could say I have some bad memories of monkeys. Your thinking, "What! There is more???" Oh, there is more. Oh yea. Definitely. But I am not gonna tell you. It might take FOR-EVE-ERRRR So what I have learned from this{meaning my life} is that monkeys are scarier than dogs so be scared of monkeys not dogs. So, I LOOOVE dogs, I LOOOOVE other mini animals, but I HATE monkeys.
So now that I don't have a huge fear of dogs, I can enjoy them! {but DON'T mention monkeys.}

Zarina