Tag #123810 - Interview #97983 (Janet Arguete)

Obviously in a neighborhood where automobiles were seldom seen, even if there weren’t playgrounds designed for children, the streets, the gardens were our play areas.  We grew up with this distinction, the orchards and gardens were ours.  We would play hopscotch (We would draw squares in the street with chalks, would skip on one foot to move the stone while not letting it touch the lines.  In every neighborhood, different rules would be applied to the game of hopscotch.  We would explain those who came from other neighborhoods the rules of that neighborhood.  For example, holding the stone on top of your foot while playing would make it more difficult, but that was another rule) in the streets, jump rope.