Moving As A Child Flashcards
out of the blue
sudden and unexpected
Yeah, I thought this kind of came out of the blue. I’d never heard it
before.
traumatic
difficult and upsetting
Oh, wow, that can actually be pretty traumatic to do something like that as
a kid.
settled in
adjusted or used to
And, y’know, it’s really tough to get settled in
army brats
children of parents who are in the military who usually move a lot
comes a point
comes a time
But there comes a point where, y’know, it gets really difficult. Like when you’re a
teenager.
I bet
I agree
Yeah, I bet.
right off the bat
right away; immediately
…so right off the bat, y’know, they knew right away that I was not from there
ridiculed
made a mean joke about someone
So I was, I was ridiculed by kids for my accent, for sure.
affluent
rich
Yeah, you know another difficult thing for me was that the area that we
moved to was affluent. And, I mean, we certainly were not rich. So, y’know, uh,
and you could see it from the clothes we wore to the cars that my parents drove. I mean…
old clunkers
old cars that have a lot of problems and look bad
brand new
completely new
turn a lot of heads
get a lot of attention; make people look
y’know, we had these old clunkers and everyone else in the neighborhood has these brand new cars, y’know. So it was pretty obvious, like, we would turn a lot of heads driving past people
blue collar
the people have jobs that do not make a lot of money
We moved from a very blue collar area - my, my parents being teachers, were very blue collar as well - to a very affluent area, a lot of doctors and lawyers.
designer clothes
expensive clothes
And then, y’know, we didn’t have the designer clothes that all the kids we went to school with wore.
keep up with the Joneses
to try to own all the same things as people you know in order to seem as good as them
So, we w-, it just was very stressful trying to keep up with the Joneses and buying these designer clothes. It was, uh, very stressful for me and my brothers.
back in style
to be fashionable again
My mom actually, she can’t sew. And she had sewn me this pair of knickers… Knickers at one point were back in style. Do you know what those are?
to get tackled
thrown to the ground
and, of course, what happens is, I get tackled and someone falls on my
leg and it breaks my ankle
cryin’ wolf
to try to get attention by saying something that is not true
I couldn’t believe it. So I’m sittin’ there, tryin’ to, y’know, act as, uh, if, like, it
doesn’t hurt that much. But, I mean, it hurt a lot. And then, y’know, the kids
thought I was cryin’ wolf. They didn’t really think I was hurt at all.
screamin’ at the top of my lungs
yelling very loud
So I have to walk away and, uh, walk home on a broken ankle. And, I
mean, I just felt like screamin’ at the top of my lungs. I was in so much pain.
But I couldn’t. I couldn’t do it because I didn’t want the kids to think I was, like,
some wimp.
wimp
someone who is weak
So I have to walk away and, uh, walk home on a broken ankle. And, I mean, I just felt like screamin’ at the top of my lungs. I was in so much pain.
But I couldn’t. I couldn’t do it because I didn’t want the kids to think I was, like,
some wimp
look out of place
to look like you do not belong or fit in
So I’m the new kid with the thick accent, the clothes that look out of place,
y’know. Nobody knows me and I have a cast on my foot. And my, y’know, I can’t
take a shower, y’know. I can’t shower the leg so my toes are a little dirty…
stuck out like a sore thumb
to look like you do not belong or fit in; same as
look out of place
hop on a bus
get on a bus
looking back
to think of a time in the past
