I remember: Jasmine

Jasmine and I met when I was living in South Hedland. My dog Sheila had a prickle in her paw and Jasmine's dad Phil took it out. Thats how I met her. She was a nice girl only lived a house away from me. So we became friends like that.

Her parents were christian and I'm catholic but I used to go to her church to see her. My parents came aswell sometimes. She had a brother and 2 older sisters. We used to just muck around everyday. We mostly went walking around behind our houses. There was heaps of dirt and animals and stuff there.

We had to do this play one day at her church about all these animals. I was a kangaroo. We had to sing aswell.

" If I were a kangaroo, I would thank the lord that I could hop."

It probably had lyrics that could rhyme but I don't remember. It was nice seeing Jasmine all the time. She used to always wear this overall skirt thing and a tshirt. James and Stephen used to come over to Jasmines aswell sometimes and we would all have water balloon fights or something like that.

After a few years Jasmine's family moved into a new built house right infront of their church. It wasn't far away from my house so I used to go visit her when I got the chance. I remember that in her house they weren't allowed to watch too many things especially stuff to do with religion. But they had videogames and stuff where you play as Jesus or Moses. We also used to jump on the trampoline alot.

When I was in about year 4 I had moved to Port Hedland. Jasmine lived in South. After a few months of living in Port Jasmine told me she was moving to Perth. I went to say goodbye but I lost contact with her for years and years. Dad saw Phil in the airport one time and gave me her email address. I got no reply though.

When I started getting into computers I found Phil's email on some website. I tried to get in contact with Jasmine again but there was no reply.

Then one day I was on myspace and I searched for Jasmine. She came up so I added her. I asked if she wanted to meet up and she said she did. So me and my parents drove out to her house which was far out from Perth. She was working in a kiosk.

We ended up sitting waiting for some food and then I went and had some small talk with her. I gave her an old photo of us and told her to keep it. Then her dad showed us around their new home. It was a big Wildlife park sort of place. With kangaroo's and birds and other animals. I saw Jasmine's younger brother Reece aswell. It was nice seeing them again. But then we went back home.