As this
is all about me and how i look at it… From my point of view this next story is all about the
start of many more…
Ok, it wasn’t
a date. But in my memory it was the first blooper. Yes, the first as in there
where many more to follow. Off course at that age I didn’t had a clue. Luckily!
At this
point I was about 12 years old. It takes place at the farm of friends of my mum
and dad. All the way in the east of the country. From the start I loved this
place. It was so contra to my life in Amsterdam. Even as a kid. With all that
space I felt more free.
We
always had so much fun. Making bonfire. Looking for Easter eggs in hay-attic. Feeding
the animals. Seeing them being born and getting named after me. Trying to drive
in dad’s car on the dead end sand road. Ice skating on the little lake surrounded
by fire torches. Swimming in the swamp. Running thru the corn fields. Doing a
scouting expedition with the kids next door.
The
neighbour kids…that brings me to the story:
I fancied
the boy next door. He lived at the farm site that I liked so much. Once my head
decided that I fancied him I liked going to the farm site even more. Was I going to see him? If there was going to
be a expedition, could I arrange to be in the same team? And would I dare to
ask him to come to the bonfire.
Luckily
we where kids and these thought gave me bubbles in my stomach. No headaches or
over thinking situations at all. Most of all we just had fun. We all got along
pretty well. I knew he at least liked me too when we exchanged addresses and
wrote each other letters. Yes, real paper letters. There was a world before internet.
I
remember the first letter he wrote me. Remember these bubbles…like a champagne
bottle being opened. I was a happy camper.
The next
trip after, the letters we wrote each other, i was off course excited to see
him again.
So it
came to this one night that we were going to play hide and seek around the
farm. One of my favorites because there where so many places to hide!
First we
were hiding on our own but after a few times we kept hiding together.The
field. We decided to hide in the middle of the field.
Pit
black and dark, a bright deck of stars above us. Very close to each other…waiting
to be found…giggling…bended down in the high grass…so romantic…and then there
was…the drop. I dropt. I lost my balance and I fell! Off course not just in the
grass, no! In the middle of a bounch of thistles!
Ouch!
Ouch!
