Tom: Early Childhood


Figure 1.--Here I am skating in my snow suit. It was 1940 and I was only 4 years old. 

We lived rather isolated for the rest of the population, therefore the nature and resources around us became our "play-ground". My playmates where my older sisters and brothers and a few kids who had come to our home to recover from illness. We had to help a lot around the house. Our play-ground was the nature around us. In summer we built tree-houses or, to the dismay of the farmers, we diverted the irrigation canals and built lakes for our small, handmade boats etc. Our parents took us on many hikes into the mountains. In winter-time we took advantage of the ice-rink in the village and the one and only ski-lift which gave us an opportunity to go skiing. WE learned at a very early age to skate and ski.

Sources

Voute, Tom. E-mail message, May 13 and 16, 2006.






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