Jem and the Holograms
I loved and still do love the 80’s cartoon Jem and the Holograms. When I was six years old, watching Jem was a daily ritual. If Jem was on, I would seriously glue myself to the TV. I even had some dolls, the Rockin’ Roadster, and the dressing room that folded up and turned into a speaker. Truly Outrageous, right?
One day at school in the 1st grade, my teacher gave us the assignment “if you could be anyone else, who would you be?” I immediately wrote down Jem. My teacher insisted that I should pick a real person. I was a kid, kids idolize cartoons and I did not hesitate to reiterate that I wanted to be Jem.
So last year, I saw that Jem and the Holograms came out on DVD. I bought the First and Second Season DVD set to not only to reminisce, but because I wanted my future children to experience the series too.
Currently, Morad has a five year old cousin from Korea living here in Qatar, so when we were in the US last month, I brought Jem back with me. So, now when she comes over, she always asks to watch Jem and we watch it together. She is still learning to speak and understand English, so in the future, I think she will understand and appreciate the show even more. I think it’s totally cool that something I enjoyed so much as a child, is now enjoyed by her 20 years later.
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