Descriptive Essay-The Neighborhood In The Country

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The Neighborhood in the Country In the small town of Tonganoxie, Kansas there was a little neighborhood out in the country. It wasn’t a normal neighborhood because the houses were spread out. In each of the houses there was one or more kid. Although most of them didn’t go to the same school all of them were very close friends with each other. These friends weren’t the usual friends, they didn’t call or text for you to come over and hang out, they walked to each other’s house to talk to them in person. They also didn’t play tons of video games like the most of the kids that they went to school with, instead they would go outside to explore the woods or play games that they came up with like two-base baseball. Two-base baseball …show more content…

Gregory has always been a pretty smart kid, and he always had some pretty good ideas like that. He is average height and has curly dark brown hair. Although he has always been into video games, when he was younger he would rarely miss a chance to play one of our favorite games we called CD. CD was just a shortened version of the game we called Caden-Dodgeball. This game involved a trampoline and some sort of ball. One person would start off of the trampoline with the ball while the rest of the people bounced on the trampoline and dodged the ball that was thrown at them. If the ball hit someone then they had to get off of the trampoline and throw the ball and the other person got back on. It wasn’t a usual game because there couldn’t be a winner or a loser; they would just play until they got board of …show more content…

All that is needed is two basketballs and a hoop. Everyone would stand at a line and the first person would shoot, and after they shoot the next person shoots. If the second person to shoot makes the ball before the first person then the first person is out. The object of this game is to be the last one standing and not get knocked out. Emma was one that liked to play this game, and she was pretty good at it too. She is athletic and likes to run cross-country. Emma and Gregory are brother and sister. They get along much better that I do with my sister. Emma different from her brother is a very social person and goes to a lot of people’s houses. She was also usually the oldest of us but she wasn’t the tallest. Although we didn’t go to the same schools we were still some of the best friends we could have. Whether it is playing games we made up like two-base baseball or playing classic games, we always had a great time out in that neighborhood in the

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