Hello,
classmates!
Well, today
I’m going to tell you about a game that I played when I was a child.
This game
it’s called “Alto” and you can play it when there’s an enthusiastic group of
people with a ball.
You can
play it on a street (being careful with cars) or on a field, wherever.
At first, people
get together on a circle and start to found different nicknames that everyone going
to use the whole game. It can be Countries names or fruits, and if no one wants
to think, it uses each one name. After that, the game starts with someone
throwing the ball to the sky, and at the same time, he or she screams someone’s
nickname. When this happen, and the ball
is on the sky, everybody runs in any direction, just to stay far away from the
ball, but the person that it was called by his nickname has to run on the opposite direction, just to
get the ball on his hands. If this one, make it, catch the ball, screams “altooo!!”
and then, everybody just had to keep the same position they had, when the
scream was made. So everybody it’s like “frozen”. The only person that can move it’s the guy
that caught the ball and screamed “alto”, so he or she, with the ball on his
hands, takes 3 steps and throws the ball, trying, with that, to touch somebody,
and if the ball touch somebody, this one it pass to be “burn”, and stay out of
the game.
So, the
group make this again and again.
I learned
this game, when I was 7 or 8 years old and I played with all the kids of my neighbourhood.
I enjoyed, because
in those days, it felt so extreme, because you had to run faster as your legs
let you make it.
Since then,
I haven’t played this game anymore.
