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memories of childhood

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I spent my childhood living in a house on the southeastern corner of the Caribbean island of Trinidad, about 1 block from Mayaro beach. The village we lived in was very small, and I remember at a very young age walking about the 1/4 mile distance to and from school every moning, usually taking the beach, since it was the most direct route.

I remember that sometimes, on pretty days, the American schoolmaster of that very small school would sometimes cancel class, and take the entire student body — all 50 of us — for long walks on the beach.

I remember sometimes being on the beach at the same time the fishermen were pulling in their seines filled with silver, flopping fish — and sometimes a shark or a stingray or two. I remember sometimes joining the men and helping them pull the nets.

I remember sometimes digging for chip-chip, and bringing them home so that we could cook them and eat them with cocktail sauce that my dad would make.

I remember racing live sand dollars on the beach with my friends.

Today, please share a photo that reminds you of your childhood.  We’d love to read about it.

 

Cross-posted at Chookooloonks.

Comments

  2. Growing up in Orange County, CA, Disneyland was a regular stop. I loved the place…from top to bottom. I moved to the East Coast in 2000 and hadn’t been to Disneyland since about 1999 when I went back in May of this year after moving home.

    Everything there reminded me of childhood. But there’s something about these lanterns that has always captured my attention. As I wrote on one of the captions from the Teacups, I feel like I’m six again when I see them.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/elainamarie/3530708057/

  11. I’ve been going to my family cottage 7 hours away from where I live for as long as I’ve been alive….and that is at least three decades now. And for as long as I can remember, we’ve had this old, red, wooden, dock. When I was a kid, I used to walk up and down the pathway, precariously dipping my toes in the water. It was somewhat of a ritual: "Is it warm enough to just run right in from the beach?" "Or is it just chilly enough to have to dangle my feet off the dock to wait until my body acclimatizes?" Most of the time, I went with option one, simply because it was the funnest.

    Either way, this shot I took a couple of summers ago instantaneously shoots me back to that point in time – and I love it!

    http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3141/2722291785_f99098fb94_o.jpg

  15. Honestly – i linked to this one for ‘love thursday’ – but it SOOO reminds me of my childhood. Kittens and more kittens everywhere I went. I fancied myself the kitten whisperer or something – and we had a wonderful old sweet German Shepherd that we saved from not so awesome previous owners and named Badger. And they all always got along so well. =) Happy thoughts.

    http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3393/3660233550_2e79948f11_b.jpg