Kijana T
Language Arts
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Although I now live in Seattle, I will never forget my hometown Oakland, California. Waterfights and family picnics are childhood memories that stick with you throughout life.
Oakland is very hot. It can get to a blazing 90 degrees in ten minutes creating hot air that blasts you from every direction. There is no way to escape this heatwave except through our famous waterfights. I remember the best part of the game was to sne ak up on the person and see the reaction on their face when they're about to be soaked with a bucket of water. The coldness put them in a state of shock! The next time they thought they were prepared, but we would fool them with hot water instead..
The teams would usually break up because everybody began looking out for themselves. That was really when all the fun began. Everybody, even grownups were out in the parking lot throwing water on people and getting soaked themselves. Although the obje ct of the game was to get everybody but yourself drenched, it really wasn't fun if you didn't get wet too. Plus, the cold water feels good on your skin when the hot sun is beaming on you.
The Oakland parks were great and in such hot weather one of your family members was bound to throw a Bar-B-Que. This was when all the fun began. You could have waterfights, go swimming, fight with your siblings and then finally eat. Usually we would g o to the really big parks. The grownups would tell us to scat so they could start firing up the grill to make the Bar-B-Que. One park that my family and I went to had a big spiral slide. At first I was so scared to go down it, but I finally did. After t hat I couldn't stop.
Although most of the memories of my childhood took place about eight years ago, I still can remember them as if it were yesterday. It`s funny because back in the days when I was having so much fun with the waterfights and during the family picnics, it just seemed like it was any other day. Doing all those activities was just the thing to do. Now as I've grown up I see those times as the best years of my life. The times that really meant nothing to me back then, I now cherish as memories and long for t hem again.