Talk about my childhood games

    Since I was a kid, my parents cannot afford us to buy any toys at home, we must invent games or found something interesting to entertain ourself, such as playing cats at my neighbor's house, racing bicycle with my neighbor's child, and turning flag eraser while feel boring on studying. During the break time, some of my classmates put all their new country flag erasers on a table, they will take a nudge and flip their eraser toward opponent's eraser, if the land of country flag on the other one, the top one conquered the opponent's and won it. It was funny when we want to collect some special and beautiful flag erasers. 

    The elementary school which I studied far about 2km from my home, there is a big lawn outside of my school. The most famous childhood games around there is Chinese jumping rope. It is easy to do, old-fashioned fun, and great exercise for all the kids. This game require at least 3 participants to join this game, sometimes we can follow the rhymes, if desired. the rope can be swung by 2 players at a regular speed in length or tied into a circle depends on the way you want to play. We always laugh at doing errors when the middle player fail to accomplish a series of movements. The position of the string will be raised if the player has succeed, from ankle to waist and higher until to the top of the ears. 

    Since my father changed his job from carpenter to newspaper vendor, the rubber bands scattered around our home and become unnecessary sometimes. I could make many jumping ropes with rubber bands and gave some to my classmates. my classmates loved to befriend with me because I could provide a lot of rubber bands or jumping rope to them. We also like to play jumping rope when we took the lunch break at the small hill of my school.

    From my point of view, jumping rope activity has been influenced my athletic's ability, I played well in basketball, volleyball, running and swimming, and etc. This game is the most memorable game in my life.