I remember when______________________, Think back and think of memories. things you did or didn't to.clothing. etc.

[Diamond_Dog]

33. I remember walking to school. I never rode a school bus.

I walked by myself to school starting at age 5. The school was 5 blocks away. I walked home for lunch and walked back to school after lunch (which was often a hot dog and a bowl of Lipton chicken noodle soup).
I recently told my 32 yr. old son about going home for lunch and going back to school after I ate lunch, and he was astounded. “Wow, if they had let us do that nobody would have ever come back to school, “ he said. Well, my mother made me go back, I said.

Our school had a summer garden program. You had to sign up for it, and it was free. In the summer, you’d walk to school around 8 am where there was a bus waiting to take all the kids out to a farm somewhere (I wasn’t quite sure where, because I often daydreamed looking out the window as we rode). Each kid got an allotted plot of land and hoes to hoe the dirt and vegetable seeds to plant. There were adults there to help you learn what to do. Around noon the bus took you back to school, and you walked home from there. I remember bringing home a huge bag full of green beans several times. I don’t remember what else we planted. If you got your gardening and weeding done early enough, some adults would take you to a fishing pond on the property and you could learn how to fish. It was a nice program for city kids to keep us busy with something productive during the summer, and my mother didn’t have to drive us anywhere.