I am now remembering one of the faintest and almost forgoten memories of my childhood. Hrm, I guess I'll write about it. You see, I was probly around the age of seven years old, and my mother was sending me to different daycares for the summer. You see, my parents work from 6 in the morning to 4 in the afternoon, so at the time that left a child at home alone, I had no older siblings with me, just a very much younger one with me. I haven't seen my older siblings in a long time. Anyway so we went to this one daycare, and I swear that I enjoyed my self there. Everyday we would get dropped of by my mother at 5 in the morning, where i would sleep then unil 6. I would be the first to wake, AND, I was the oldest. So I went and got my breakfeast first. I would come back and the other kids were just starting to wake up. We waited until 7 to watch a full hour of Pokemon on TV. (the good old series) We just loved that show, and I know I still enjoy a little bit of Pokemon every now and again. so then we would play outside. Now you see, outside was this big back yard, that lay at the bottom of a really big hill, behind the house. There were two trees, wigh bothe had miniature tree houses in them. Between those trees was a rickety old swingset. I am sure that swing set does not stand today because it was so run down. BUT, we still played on it. We devided the group of kids that was there into 2 groups, one for every tree house. I was the leader of one tree house, and the second oldest shild was in charge of the other tree house. We had a clothes line in between the trees, and thats how we sent our "trade, or money, or gifts" and w would have people down on the ground keping watch. If some one dare come to our territory, we could capture them iin a simple mini game of tag. If they got to touching our tree, they could enter our tree house. If we caught them, they would stay in the Jail, (one of the dead gardens that were beside both trees. ) I thought It was a fun game of protect your castle, tag, and capture the flag. Our currency, (money) were rocks. You see there was a giant pile of small rocks and pebbles. We called that the "mine". Our food was watermelon. We ate it a lunch time, and sometimes as snacks inside our tree houses. Those were good times. Sometimes I wish that People would still do those kinds of things children do to pass the time. But we are all so "grown up" and have "better" things to do, so we can't waste our time. sad , AND, everybody is sooo self concious. Little kids aren't though. Self proclaiming, I don't think I can be very self concious. Heck, I do some of the most odd ballistic things, I mean I carry a giant yellow lunchbox around that has the words, "little playmate" on it. Do you think I'm worried about being laughed at? No, I mean its actually a pretty funny joke if I slapped A playboy bunny sticker on it, but that Might go against school policy, with inhapropriate stufez. Anyway, yah. I guess around certain people though, that changes. i have a bad case of forgetting words, and then mixing up words. So I could say a sentence backwards. Usually thats only if I'm extremly nervous. Mostly I just mix up two words. So I could a Say sentence. did you notice I mixed up the words a and say? Excactly. Huuuuh, well every person can't be perfect.
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