Remember the time I was from another planet?

So when I was in elementary school I liked to use my imagination. Probably the most fun and imaginative thing that I thought of was the planet UHHHH. My three best friends and I thought we were from this planet. It kind of became an obsession. We would go to this wonderful place called FunScape on the weekends, and one weekend we put all our prize tickets together to get a colorful battery powered disco ball on a stick. When we had planet meetings, which happened quite frequently, we would turn off the lights and turn on the glowing ball.

Like all good aliens, we had special names too. They changed pretty often though. With the change of the millenium I became ZooGirl2000. Before that we had a fruit theme and I was Lemono. At one point I'm pretty sure I was weirdo. One of our favorite things to do on UHHHH was make home made play dough. However, we renamed it Galactic Goo. Then, we would put the goo in bags and sell it to the other kids in the neighborhood for 50 cents. It was a pretty lucrative business. The thing that we did most often on UHHHH was make up dances to our favorite pop songs. Any Backstreet Boys, N'Sync, Britney Spears, or 98 degrees song you can name, we probably made up a dance for it. We would even perform them for the otehr kids sometimes. I don't know why our parents let us humiliate ourselves that way, but nonetheless it happened.

Being from another planet even won me my first blue ribbon. At Great Bridge Intermediate School there was a young authors competition. I wrote a story about being on UHHHH with my friends. I talked about the bad guys (Goombas) chasing us and how we had to get away. I got first place in the prose category that year. When they gave me my ribbon and asked about my story I told them it was a true story...my poor mother.

Most people would be embarrassed to admit that for a few years they were convinced they were from another planet. Especially one with a name like UHHHH. But I am not. I had so much fun being an alien with my friends. Someday I may even go back to UHHHH and see how the Goombas are doing. AllGirls2000 woo hoo!