For my "Leisure Lifestyles" class.
It’s hard to say exactly which activities I spent the most time with, owing to the fact that the more I think about it, the more I remember. As is not at all uncommon among children, I had a pretty vivid imagination when I was young. I spent a lot of time running, climbing, and jumping off of inappropriately elevated structures all for the sake of emulating Star Wars, Power Rangers, or whatever action/adventure television series or movie I had most recently seen. Ideally, I would be able to involve anywhere from one to five of my peers in this role play, though I was just as capable of destroying the Death Star on my own (without a targeting computer) as I was in the company of my most trusted Jedi X-Wing pilots.
I also fancied myself quite the artist (again, it has been my personal experience that most children - as well as a staggering amount of adults - tend to have an exceptional opinion of their own artistic abilities despite a complete lack of similar sentiments among anyone else). The pencil was my weapon of choice. Oh, I would dabble in crayons, washable markers, sidewalk chalk, even watercolors. But I would always return to the steadfast #2, with which I produced some of the busiest and most unimpressive drawings I have ever seen. Two pirate ships colliding while their respective crews run their graphite blades through each other without batting an eye for their fallen comrades being eaten by what is probably a shark in the scribbled waves below. An intergalactic spaceship battle, wherein entire planets have been literally erased or redrawn on a whim, and the only thing standing between a marooned astronaut and the agony of being sucked into a black hole (the obvious source of all alien life) is the strength of his lazily-sketched jetpack. Yes, I was a young Walt Disney.
I cannot - with a clean conscience - disclose the details of the diversions of my days as a youth without mentioning those marvelous building blocks of which we were all so fond: Lincoln Logs Legos. Oh, the places I have built! And destroyed! Entire civilizations raised and razed in a matter of hours! I am solely responsible for the construction of a remarkable number of castles, hospitals, vehicles of public transit, and at least one time machine. With Legos, I was able to accomplish more in the realm of urban planning and development than I could ever have hoped to in reality.
(But seriously, I actually did have Lincoln Logs. However, they lacked the flexibility found among their multicolored and many-shaped cousins. The only thing I could ever manage to convincingly construct was - of all things - a log cabin.)