My Cassette Tape Player

In third grade on my birthday, I recieved my first cassette tape player. I was overly excited about this device because I had so many tapes that I wanted to listen to. I used this player to read along with the books, and when I was afriad at night, I could listen to the stories on the tape until I was sound asleep. My favorite thing to do with the tape player was to slow it down so slow that the voices would sound low and really silly. You can't do it with CDs or IPods! Unfortunately, it was one of the many reasons why the tapes would get messed up. One specific memory that I have with my cassette tape player was that I would use it to hear my best friend's voice when she recorded her songs and her messages to me from Finland. We would record our voices to sing our favorite songs, then write a letter so that we could have both a handwritten and voiced message. One of her voice messages included a song from Spice Girls, but I didn't know who they were (I didn't know until a few years ago that they were an actual group) and thought she made up the songs with her own "band name". It was special to have this cassette tape player because I had so many memories of my friend. I still have that player and the specific tape that she sent.