I was born with the name Sophie, but a day later my mom changed it to Hildi.  When I was four I got my tonsils removed, I remember staring at the pink cubes in a bag.  When I was five, I picked up a snake in my backyard and waved it around. I got my ears pierced when I was in the second grade.  I was in the third grade when I got Diagnosed with ADD (Attention deficit disorder). I lost my first tooth in kindergarten and became an instant celebrity.  When I was twelve, I raised butterflies I found in my backyard. I am not what has happened to me, but I am how I have changed because of it. I called pretzels “cretzels” until I was six.  I started playing soccer when I was three years old on a team called the cheetahs. When I was a toddler, I was a ballerina. I sang twinkle twinkle little star to my little sister every day in the hospital when she was a baby until she was able to come home.  I used to run around my neighborhood with my brother and we thought the moon was following us. Once as a child my grandmas bought me a huge container of chalk with all the colors of the rainbow, I used all of this chalk to draw a three hundred square hopscotch.  At my old house I used to put my hands and feet on the walls in the hallways and climb up to the ceiling like spiderman. At the age of twelve I was uprooted from my childhood home and moved to a new house where I got my own room for the first time. I remember the first time I made cookies from scratch, I added one tablespoon of salt instead of one teaspoon and they were a little salty, to say the least.  When I was in sixth grade I pulled my first all nighter, I don’t remember most of it, but I do remember taking a six hour nap the day after. In eighth grade I remember scoring my first goal during a soccer game with my left foot, immediately after I ran and jumped into my friends arms because I was so happy. I look back to my old house, the cracked sidewalk where I learned to ride a bike and the small pool in my backyard where I learned to swim.