Best childhood memory? Lemme think... Surprisingly, I can't think of a particular memory that really stands out. *stares at the wall for 20 mins* Ok. After some reflection I finally found something that I remember quite well.
When I was seven, eight and nine years old I would spend the three months of my summer holiday in Montenegro. My aunt and my cousins (Egor and Vasjok) would come to stay with us for about two weeks and, as you can probably guess, it was a whole lot of fun. We would go around the village by ourselves, not giving a damn, stuffing ourselves with ice cream and kinder surpsises. Our parents would send us to bring water from a water spring that was located quite close to our house. We called it the "Saint water source" since we would often find pilgrims, filling huge canisters with water from the spring. My cousins and I loved going there since it seemed like an adventure to us. We also found it fun because we would often see cows and sheep on the street, returning from the mountains after a hot summer day at the field. I remember that there were a lot of donkeys too. During the day they would be found by piles of trash at the lay-bys of the rocky roads of the village and at nighttime you would sometimes be woken up by the sound of donkeys screaming (it's terrifying, trust me). I used to own a huge box of cassettes when I was younger and every summer, it was the first thing that I packed in my suitcase. Vasjok and I loved listening to them and would reenact the scenes from, what you would now call, audiobooks that we listened to. I also had a lot of magazines with me. Most of them were from the previous summers and seemed old and ancient to us. One time, my dad gave me a lot of DVDs of horror movies. Egor and I (vasjok was too scared) would buy as much popcorn as we could and watch them in the dark. I remember Vasjok would get angry at us because we didn't want to play with her. I guess sunbathing shirtless and listening to rap on Egor's SonyEricsson was more entertaining to me and Egor. I forgot to mention that we also had quite a large collection of kinder surprise toys. We would trade them amongst the three of us and pretend to fight with one another. We also made catapults and weapons out of plasticine and were planning to have a major battle between our kinder surprise toys, but that never happened because summer was over, we left and never came back to that house again.
When I was seven, eight and nine years old I would spend the three months of my summer holiday in Montenegro. My aunt and my cousins (Egor and Vasjok) would come to stay with us for about two weeks and, as you can probably guess, it was a whole lot of fun. We would go around the village by ourselves, not giving a damn, stuffing ourselves with ice cream and kinder surpsises. Our parents would send us to bring water from a water spring that was located quite close to our house. We called it the "Saint water source" since we would often find pilgrims, filling huge canisters with water from the spring. My cousins and I loved going there since it seemed like an adventure to us. We also found it fun because we would often see cows and sheep on the street, returning from the mountains after a hot summer day at the field. I remember that there were a lot of donkeys too. During the day they would be found by piles of trash at the lay-bys of the rocky roads of the village and at nighttime you would sometimes be woken up by the sound of donkeys screaming (it's terrifying, trust me). I used to own a huge box of cassettes when I was younger and every summer, it was the first thing that I packed in my suitcase. Vasjok and I loved listening to them and would reenact the scenes from, what you would now call, audiobooks that we listened to. I also had a lot of magazines with me. Most of them were from the previous summers and seemed old and ancient to us. One time, my dad gave me a lot of DVDs of horror movies. Egor and I (vasjok was too scared) would buy as much popcorn as we could and watch them in the dark. I remember Vasjok would get angry at us because we didn't want to play with her. I guess sunbathing shirtless and listening to rap on Egor's SonyEricsson was more entertaining to me and Egor. I forgot to mention that we also had quite a large collection of kinder surprise toys. We would trade them amongst the three of us and pretend to fight with one another. We also made catapults and weapons out of plasticine and were planning to have a major battle between our kinder surprise toys, but that never happened because summer was over, we left and never came back to that house again.
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