When I was a child, I was very naughty. My brother and I just played all days and nights in every summer vacation.
When they went to work in the mornings, they left my brother and I inside with the main front door locked. Just few minutes after they were out of house, our friends gathered in front of the front door to talk with us. We sometimes played cards together to get used lottery, marbles, small photos or something like that. Even we climbed over the front door and left the back door unlocked to play outside. Of course, we came back the house before my parents returned it in their break time at lunch & after their ending work hours. We usually climbed trees to get green fruits whenever the trees
Hi hi hi …. We are really small devils.
However, in the evenings, we had a little time to go out, within 1 hour from 5.00 – 6.00 pm as my father’s permission. I usually went to the large space near Saigon River where domestic ships were used to anchor after long voyage. All children from other places like to gather there. Some play kites in the sky full of wind. Some others play marbles. Until I entered university, I bought a kite to play with my younger brother. The kite flied high and far away in above blue sky with fantastic dreams. I practiced to ride bicycle myself at that place while my older and younger brother knew how to ride it owning to my help. I had to push it behind and keep balance for them to run smoothly.
Night was a really good time for me. It was the time to bother neighbor. We gathered a crowd in the corner of street to talk together or watch someone pass to tease them. Sometimes we roamed to rich houses near there to ring their doorbell. We were really pesky children. We rang it, and just ran fast before the host appeared. Some just knew to shake their head, but others scolded to be less angry. Remarkably, I used to steal mangos fruit at around 10.00 or 11.00 pm when most people closed the doors and fell in sleep. We used a straight bamboo tree with a hook at the beginning to pick them.
I think I had a happy and comfortable childhood although my parents seldom gave us the pocket money to spend. We lived in a suburb, so I had a lot of chance to enjoy the green rice fields, vegetable gardens, and flower fences. It was amazed to see that food which we had everyday grew. The time I felt happiest maybe was in summer of the year I was in sixth grade. We had a vacation in my cousin, far away my home about 6 kilometers. At that time, farmers just finished their successful harvest, and there was something left in the rice and sweet potato field for children to pick up. It was very tired to collect the bunch of paddy grain left somewhere in the fields when the sun started to rise higher. We caught fishes in the small pond or ditch at noon. I didn’t know how to go fishing and this made me feel very upset. All I did was following my cousins to keep fishes for them. I know going fishing is a good hobby to practice the impatience. We spent all afternoon to dig sweet potatoes budded out of the ground. In the evening, we gathered to enjoy a good meal from all achievements we had tried to do since the early morning. His mother boiled sweet potatoes or fried fishes.
When they went to work in the mornings, they left my brother and I inside with the main front door locked. Just few minutes after they were out of house, our friends gathered in front of the front door to talk with us. We sometimes played cards together to get used lottery, marbles, small photos or something like that. Even we climbed over the front door and left the back door unlocked to play outside. Of course, we came back the house before my parents returned it in their break time at lunch & after their ending work hours. We usually climbed trees to get green fruits whenever the trees
Hi hi hi …. We are really small devils.
However, in the evenings, we had a little time to go out, within 1 hour from 5.00 – 6.00 pm as my father’s permission. I usually went to the large space near Saigon River where domestic ships were used to anchor after long voyage. All children from other places like to gather there. Some play kites in the sky full of wind. Some others play marbles. Until I entered university, I bought a kite to play with my younger brother. The kite flied high and far away in above blue sky with fantastic dreams. I practiced to ride bicycle myself at that place while my older and younger brother knew how to ride it owning to my help. I had to push it behind and keep balance for them to run smoothly.
Night was a really good time for me. It was the time to bother neighbor. We gathered a crowd in the corner of street to talk together or watch someone pass to tease them. Sometimes we roamed to rich houses near there to ring their doorbell. We were really pesky children. We rang it, and just ran fast before the host appeared. Some just knew to shake their head, but others scolded to be less angry. Remarkably, I used to steal mangos fruit at around 10.00 or 11.00 pm when most people closed the doors and fell in sleep. We used a straight bamboo tree with a hook at the beginning to pick them.
I think I had a happy and comfortable childhood although my parents seldom gave us the pocket money to spend. We lived in a suburb, so I had a lot of chance to enjoy the green rice fields, vegetable gardens, and flower fences. It was amazed to see that food which we had everyday grew. The time I felt happiest maybe was in summer of the year I was in sixth grade. We had a vacation in my cousin, far away my home about 6 kilometers. At that time, farmers just finished their successful harvest, and there was something left in the rice and sweet potato field for children to pick up. It was very tired to collect the bunch of paddy grain left somewhere in the fields when the sun started to rise higher. We caught fishes in the small pond or ditch at noon. I didn’t know how to go fishing and this made me feel very upset. All I did was following my cousins to keep fishes for them. I know going fishing is a good hobby to practice the impatience. We spent all afternoon to dig sweet potatoes budded out of the ground. In the evening, we gathered to enjoy a good meal from all achievements we had tried to do since the early morning. His mother boiled sweet potatoes or fried fishes.
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