In the book I'm reading, King of the Screwups, the main
character, Liam, is forced to go live with his uncle that he’s only met one time
when he was too young to remember. Liam is introduced to new people and new
surroundings that he needs to adjust to. He feels he doesn’t fit in as well
because his uncle lives in a dirty, old trailer park and wears slopping old
clothes while Liam used to live with his parents in a big house in the city and
owns only expensive, designer clothing. Liam finds the situation awkward
because he can’t relate to anyone he meets and is shy around them. This is like
the time when I was younger when I had to go over to my aunt’s house for a few
hours because my mom wasn’t able to watch after me. The entire time I was
awkward and shy because I hadn’t talked to my aunt much and we knew really
nothing about each other so there was nothing much to talk about or do. We didn’t
have many similar likes either. She
drinks tea and I drink coke, she listens to classical music while I listen to
pop music so no matter what we did, it was always awkward or uncomfortable for
both of us. It was even worse when she had some colleagues from work over and I
was forced to sit in the room with them questioning me and talking about foreign
subjects. Frankly, for most of the time I was just counting the time until my
mom to come and pick me up. But all in all, it was kind of nice to spend time
my aunt because we did learn new things about each other which I’m sure Liam
will do if he gives his uncle a chance.
This happened to me too once a long time ago, but not with an aunt like you or an uncle like Liam or any family member but with a kid who was my age that my mom thought I would be good friends with. My mom and the girl's mom were really great friends and thought that we would be too, they were dead wrong. We were nothing alike, not at all, we didn't share even one similar interest. The whole time that we were together we barely talked and it was just so awkward. It was when we were pretty little and I was a full tomboy and she was a full girly girl, I wanted to play outside, while she wanted to play with dolls and dress up. We were total opposites, but the weird thing is that we actually became pretty good friends once we put our differences aside and are still friends to this day.
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