Throwback Moment: Share a Memorable Childhood Story

imohmitch (66)Member/club5050in Hindwhale Community • 9 days ago

Most of our special memorable moments comes from childhood, we sometimes wish we can go back to this age where we had no worries, all we did was to wake up, eat and play the cycle just continued. We have lots of cherished moments and also moments of regret. We were so much attracted to parties and also Christmas that whenever it was our end of the year party in school our parents get new clothes for us, it looked like a tradition.

One of the memorable throwback moments was during my primary school, I was about 10 years plus. I'm always happy and proud anytime was when I took first for my house in high jump. We were about to host a very huge inter house sport, which the students were divided into houses/parties of either 6 or 5, these houses were represented by colors and I was in green house.

We had an intense training week as all the houses were preparing for their performances, the blue and purple house had the best high jumpers and my house was yet to find one, our teacher just made all of us in the higher class to try it out, we all took part in the training as i and my friend emerged the best and we were selected.

The big day was here and my heart was already pounding, we had this fear on how we will win the other houses but we were a bit relieved after some talks with our coach. It was our time, as we all lined up, the officials brought were higher officials from state level, so they knew all the rules. They told us the rules and gave penalties to it, as we jumped. Those tall guys jumped as it was quite easy for them, then my friend jumped on the first round as he performed well. I was shocked to see someone fall the stick, he missed his steps and he cried bitterly.

The second and final round which I was the next, those tall guys jumped were already prepared but they didn't know what was waiting for them. The stick was raised high, which wasn't my height. They jumped and made a flip and the other summersaults which brought about a reduction in their points, they were marvelled by the ruling as the officials already made us aware before the jump. It was my turn as I heard my house mistress and my house pupils cheering me up, I couldn't look at their faces as I was focused on the height and the bouncing point, I already made my calculations as I was waiting for the signal to go for the run.

The wood clapped and I ran hastily and I sprang myself up over the horizontal stick, everything seemed slow as my head passed through and my eyes were just fixed at my legs, because any little contact from your body would make the stick fall and points not counted. I landed like a soft bread on a delivery van and our headmaster ran towards me grabbing me. I was very proud of myself as we matched to record our names, I was kept in front as the winner.

During my nursery days and my first inter house sport I also take part in an egg race competition. We all had boiled egg in a spoon as we walked to the finish line, I was so careful as I didn't walk too fast as the other people, they ended up breaking their eggs. I now saw that statement "slow and steady wins the race".

We have always been fans of the football game, and we loved to create our own happiness by playing too.

We take covers from bottle drinks as our players
Buttons from shirts as our ball
make goal posts from paper

Our football match is set, we had clear cemented grounds as our football pitch, we had our goal keeper, defenders, midfielders and strikers. We made a tournament, made flags as we would form an anthem as we made the football match look professional. We do make draws and kick penalties and free kicks as well.

The tournament was the best, as we drew tables for fixtures and made records of wins. We had different stadiums to play of matches and we had colourful teams. We had special players with special abilities which could score a screamer yards away.

I really had a memorable childhood moment, it is a special throwback.