Little Ja the Ballerina Baby

Little Ja in a pink leotard.

“Chin up!” said the ballet teacher, and Little Ja obeyed.

Chin up!

Surrounded by little ballerinas in black leotards who for some sort of reason didn’t follow the teacher as much as Little Ja did, the little ballerina in pink held her head high until the class ended. Then, Little Ja’s mother asked her to take a picture with her cousin Isabel. Little Ja agreed. She wasn’t camera shy. Not at all.

with my cousin Isabel

Whenever I look at these pictures, I feel amused and a little puzzled. I knew I was a shy kid, so why was I confident enough to hold my head high when the rest of my classmates weren’t doing so? Did I not realize that no one else was doing this? Was I just a very obedient student? Did I misremember how confident I was when I was a kid?

Or maybe, I was socially shy, but I was also a performer, and I knew just how to strike a pose.

For more weird kid stories, check out these links:

• Mama Make Me a Test
• What Little Ja Wrote
•  My Smile
• I Played Mary, He Played Joseph
• Ja’s Weird Childhood Games
• Little Ja’s Sleepy Daydreams
• A Little Ja Story: Going to Mama’s Office
• Little Ja’s Budget Christmas
• Childhood Game: May Butas Ang Puwet Mo!
• Little Ja’s Worst Day of My Life
• A Shy Person’s Top 8 Worries and Fears

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Age of the Diary by Jasmine T. Cruz. If you like this post, please subscribe to this blog. Follow Ja on Twitter: ageofthediary. Email Ja at: ageofthediary@gmail.com.

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