When Amber Lee was 16, she went to an amusement park with her friends, and she wrote about it in her journal.

We went on a lot of rides and scoped out all the babes.

And oh, were there a lot of them?

I mean, I was droolin on myself.

My clothes have yet to dry.

In fact, in fact, if you wrung out my clothes from all that drooling, I'm sure there'd be enough water to supply the third world countries for a year.

That's Amber Lee, reading from the journal she kept when she was 16.

And this, this is grown-ups read things they wrote as kids.

I'm Dan Meisner.

This is a show where we go back in time to remember the good, the bad, and the awkward

parts of growing up.

This time, recorded live at Yuck Yucke Yucs in Ottawa, we have a champion high jumping snake,

an underwhelming sex ed class, and we find out what it's like to have a summer job in a cemetery.

This stuff is weird, it is wonderful, it is funny and heartbreaking, and it also has a lot to say about who we are today.

If you want to know who you are, it helps to understand who you were.

So think about who you were when you were a kid.

And stick around.

When Elizabeth was in grade eight, she wrote a book report for English class.

So the question for the book report was, where would your character prefer to a vacation and why?

My response was, in my book, my character would like to go to Pluto. I think because it's so far away from the sun, they won't get tired, because the sun makes vampires tired.

Teacher's response, Pluto would not sustain life. And I got a C.

Now, Elizabeth was usually an A student, not a C student, and she was not pleased with her teacher's analysis of where her book's main character would prefer to vacation.

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