As a child, I was all over the village and I loved to play a lot. Given the fact that I was the last girl, it was an advantage to me to move around the entire village to play with my friends. I was more of a plan creator, which made me the troublemaker. Having grown up in a village setting, there were quite a lot of games that I used to play but the most interesting and entertaining one was called ”gogolo”.
“Gogolo” was one the most risky games I played when I was young. Growing up in a hilly place with many lakes gave us an opportunity to create our own games for fun. We would use banana stems for this adventurous game. We would fix sticks in the stems to support our legs and carry them to the hill, sit on them and slide up to the lakeshores. We would fall off sometimes and slide on our clothes hence the damages on our behinds. I remember my mum warning me several times about the how dangerous the game was and how my friends and I were destroying peoples’
plantations just to have fan. Even after being warned several times, I would still go back the following day. I started playing the game when I was about 9 years old and I could not stop yet because it was very interesting.
Some days I would leave home as early as seven o’clock in the morning just to go and play. However, there was this one day I went with my squad as usual but unfortunately, we found dogs which chased us up to my door step and ever since then, I swore never to play that game again.
I really had a fun childhood, full of both good and bad times, the good times were really the best experience I had then, and the bad times were a lesson to me. The games I played especially “gogolo” have made me a very strong, resilient and fearless woman and I believe that if I was able to survive that risky game and the dogs then nothing can stop me from taking risks on certain things in life and making wise decisions as well.
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