I had a happy childhood #1
A MISSIONARY'S VISIT It was a sunny morning in November when we were enjoying a happy and noisy recess. a “peladinha” with two shirts in place of the goals, ten boys on each side. The place was a large patio surrounded by fruit trees, mango trees, avocado trees and even a carambola tree, which made us happy. We were about two hundred students, boys and girls aged between seven and eighteen years old, from the third grade until admission to the Gymnasium. The girls also played, but on the other side of the wall in another smaller courtyard, separated from the boys. Sometimes some boys climbed the branches of the mango and avocado trees to see the girls playing on the other side. The noise and rush was great. when we were alerted by a sound warning to gather in traditional formation as in the days when there was the “Civic Hour”. We were all very curious, wanting to know why they had spoiled our recess, which was already so short. It was the end of the year and t...