ENJOYMENTS

What did you enjoy doing most as a child? Did you prefer doing it alone of with someone else?

These are difficult questions but can be answered together. I enjoyed almost anything as long as I was doing it with my friends. From the time I was 10, I was very active with my church friends. I also enjoyed going to movies. However, since I was comparatively richer than my friends, I did not have to work like my friends did. Therefore, I more often than not went alone.

I enjoyed moving around my neighborhood trying to remain undetected. I did this by jumping walls or fences, climbing on top of houses, keeping low to the ground, going under bushes, cars, etc.

Although I did enjoy being alone, I also felt lonely.

I also enjoyed riding my bicycle. I would ride it almost every day. There was no part of town that I could not reach.

I really loved to travel. There were times when I caught the train I went to Marilia (1 hour away from Tupã) without letting my parents know. One of my fondest memories is travelling to the interior with the father of a friend. Seu Aquiles Tosqui was a very important father-figure of mine. His sons could not go... again because they worked. So he invited my to travel with him. He was a sales rep to a local shoe factory and had a circuit he traveled from time to time.

S. Aquiles knew that during the first half of 1972 I had nothing to do. I was in a six month hold between HS graduation and college. I often accompanied him on fishing outings. Most of these were local trips and we never caught much but it was quality time.

I had many particular interests. However, due to some type of ADD, it was never possible for me to stick to any one thing. From time to time, I was interested in gardening, stamp collecting, listening to shortwave radio, hiking, and many other things.