Hide and Seek

                As a young child growing up in a rural area, I had the freedom to play in spacious area along with my neighborhood friends. Together with my playmates, we run along the capacious backyard of my friend. The game we constantly play there is taguan or hide and seek.

                Hide and seek is a game played by many. Someone would randomly choose among the children to be the “it” and the game would start by a rhyme song as the “it’” closes his/her eyes facing and leaning to a wall or a tree.

                                “Tagu-taguan, maliwanag ang buwan 
                                Masarap maglaro sa dilim-diliman 
                                'Pag kabilang kong sampu 
                                Nakatago na kayo 
                                Isa, dalawa, ... sampu!”

Whoever caught first in their hiding place immediately becomes the “it” in the next round of game but for the meantime he/she will help the locate the rest of the of players until all of them are found.

                Indeed hide and seek was very famous and popular at the time of my childhood. I was always lucky in this game because I seldom becomes the “it”. I always hide in places where no one could ever notice me.

                Most of my friends during my childhood always love to play it because of the excitement they feel about the game. I could even remember the frenzy looks on their faces trying to find a place to hide. After the end of the game, after all has been caught and found, we then share our own experiences during the game and laughing at it all through the day.