When I was a kid, I had many habits. When I look back at them I start laughing. Here are some.
Every night after having dinner I felt that I had a duty to do. It was to bring a piece of bread and smash it into tiny pieces. Then, I used to throw them affront our house to feed the little insects, especially ants, because they were very dear to my heart.
Another habit took place on the roof of our house, where I used to gather different materials like flowers, leaves, water, juice, mud, pieces of paper and many other things that are not related to each other in any way. I used to squeeze, smash, and mix them together. It was like an imaginary game I had to play almost every day, in which I imagined the roof of the house as my secret lab where I made medicines. After making the medicine I had to declare what disease it can cure and of course no one could prove any failure in any of my experiments because no one simply tried them out! That made me consider myself as a great scientist.
There is one more habit to be mentioned but I’ve known lately that I wasn't the only kid having it. It was to run all the way to the roof whenever I saw a plane flying above the house. After reaching the roof I used to put my hands up, jump and shout happily "baba Qabuse hiiiiiiiiiiii."
By: Amira Al Maawali
