Favorite things to do when you were a kid?

Hello there!  I’m from San Francisco, California. I have a few questions for you that I’m not sure have been asked before. My first one is Did you like school? If you did, What did you like about it? Also, Growing up, what was your favorite thing to do with your friends?

I did like school, but not all of it.  I liked reading and art and music most of all, but I was terrible in math, especially in middle and high school.  As a much younger child, however, growing up in the Depression, most kids had to entertain themselves as parents were all worried about their jobs and how to pay for groceries.  We all loved to  roller skate–the kind of skates you fastened onto the soles of your shoes.  We waited for the ice cream wagon and were allowed to buy one Coca Cola a week.  I remember our parents buying hot dogs and buns for us, and six or seven of us hiked off to a woods and lit a little bonfire and roasted our hot dogs on sticks.  Nobody worried about burning ourselves or setting the woods on fire because the oldest boy among us promised to take charge.  The summer I liked best, we decided  make a “carnival.”  I forget all the different exhibits we had, but we actually made a “ride” by  tying a rope to the high window of somebody’s two-story barn/garage and stretching it out at an angle all the way to the ground below.  Then the older boys attached a seat to it, and we charged three cents or something for a kid to get in t he seat and slide all the way to the ground.  On the third ride, the rope broke high up and we were so scared that Sammy got killed.  But he stood up laughing, and we kept the secret to ourselves as we dismantled the ride.