The local elementary school is a 3 minute walk from our place. It is a large school that caters for kids from year 1 to year 6 (6-12 year olds). Just twelve years ago the site was fields and fish ponds, but today it is a bustling place 16 hours a day.
Now I am a great fan of firecrackers, firework and any chemical combination that goes pop. Despite growing up in a land where such things were severely restricted and before an Internet search for “How to make a bomb†was possible I still enjoyed a childhood of banging, burning and occasional bodily bruising.
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