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Transcription: [00:24:47]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Very good. What kind of games did you learn from the school?

[00:24:52]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Can you give us example of some of the games? Uh, Jan?

[00:24:59]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
In the fall, there'd be uh, the boys would have to do the uh, lawn, get all the leaves all piled up and they'd leave them to be picked up the next day.

[00:25:12]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
We'd come in and we'd make big houses out of them. The leaves, we'd make uh in rows and then burrow it out and we'd say, well this is the living room, and then we'd make another row over here and say that's the bedroom, make another wall on the other side.

[00:25:29]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
And then uh, we'd uh, clean out a little area so we could use for the door way, and then we'd say: uh now well this is the livingroom. Now you can't just step over that you have to go through where the door is. And we'd play house that way.

[00:25:41]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Talk and play. Sometimes we'd play Indians and cowboys. Or some other times we'd just jump in the middle of a big pile, where we'd have a very large grounds and have very large piles of these leaves that had been raked up. We'd love to play in that.

[00:25:57]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Lily? My, in my day when I was in school, ahem, we were in the middle of New York City and they had like you were talking about leaves, and things, we didn't have any. It, that was an older school.

[00:26:12]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Um, my friends would be talking, you know, and we'd be talking like about strange pals and like different uh buildings would be all around us, and the school was in the center.

[00:26:24]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
We really had a lot of fun there. There wasn't any leaves and things like that, but we'd play games. You know deaf people would be very creative with their games.

[00:26:34]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
We'd be playing tag, and swinging and everything. It was really fun. And you could see the people from the apartment buildings looking down at our school. Looking down and we were, you know, they would throw us candy sometimes. You know and we'd be down there holding our hands out for candy and

Transcription Notes:
Sound like speaker 2 is about to say: "things like that" at the end.