Tag #125313 - Interview #97653 (Rebeka Evgin)

Between my friends and me, we had childhood games like jumping rope, playing hopscotch.  The guys twirled tops. I wanted to twirl tops like boys but could not do it.  The mothers of my friends made cloth dolls.  We would draw eyes and eyebrows on these cloth dolls and play with them.  Because my older sister was a tailor, she would give us the leftover fabrics.  We would weave floor mats with those ropes.  During summer months, in order to earn my allowance, I would nail wood boards and make cases to put the oranges that our neighbor gathered from the citrus groves.  Tomatoes or peppers were also placed in those cases.  I would wrap candy in papers (Grocers would wrap candy in a thin paper before selling it.  This way, it would prevent the candies from sticking to each other).  Again during the summer months, I would go to my older sister, and do overcasting [a simple sewing technique to prevent the unraveling of fabrics].  In this way I earned my allowance.