When I was in 1st grade, there were giant pine trees behind the playground, and a tree stump. On these trees were sap. I remember my friends and I used to love to play in the tree sap. We take sticks and try to scrape off all the tree sap off the trees and the tree stump. I used to call it "honey," because it looked like honey. But it stuck like glue. It was so hard to get off your fingers.
When I was in 1st Grade, there was a honeysuckle bush by the playground. My teachers helper told me that I could pull the bottom off and get a drop of honey from it. So all during the spring, I was down there, picking honeysuckles, and drinking the drop of "honey" that came from the bottom of it. I loved it, it was fun. Unfortunately, when 2nd grade came along, my teachers helper that year told me I couldn't go eat the honeysuckle plants anymore T_T. So honeysuckles were a big part of my childhood.
My Second grade classroom was inside a portable, so there were no drinking fountains in the room. So our teacher(s) [we had 2 teachers in second grade because one of my teachers took a part time job as the vice principal for the year, so we had one teacher on Mondays, Wednesday, and Fridays, and another one on Tuesday and Thursdays] put a water cooler in our classroom. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. The best part is when the water cooler dispensed enough water, the water cooler would make bubbles and make a really cool noise. It sounded like "bllpphh bllpphh." I remember my friends and I would always get excited when we were the one to get the "bllpphh bllpphh" noise!
The pine trees where my friends and I would go caterpillar hunting.
Rancho Romero (circa around 2002ish)
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| Another picture of Rancho (circa May 2010) |
