I consider myself a pretty interesting person with quite a noteworthy history to look back on already, at age 18. I’m a citizen of two very different countries on two different continents, I’m half French, and I was born on the year of the millennium. These among many other parts of my life have become my own personal history. But how I view my own history can be very different from what my mom sees, or my brother, or my best friend. Experiences can affect us differently, and can sometimes cloud our judgement of certain events.

Here are just some little snapshots from my life 🙂

To carry on our history learning, we switched to looking at our own personal history and chose four different events in our lives to recall and represent in this post. I decided to make a brochure of Gabi’s Most Memorable Moments.

As I look back on four different events that I feel have shaped who I am, I have come to realize that the memories are hazy, or that I simply cannot hope to remember the specifics. Throughout my life, I have relied on the stories those close to me have told, or used pictures to connect the dots for certain events. Once we hear or see these pieces of evidence, we might choose to place our own opinion or bias on what we ‘think’ happened, compared to what actually happened.

I was not too sure about the specifics of my birth, though I have been told a few stories that have stuck with me (see above brochure). To compare my secondary story to my mom’s, who definitely is a primary source, I have conducted a short interview to examine how close our stories match, if not at all.

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