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Blog Task: Week 17

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 So it began in the autumn when I was 9. I was playing, as we did in those days, in the woods. All was well, the sky was grey but that was nothing unusual and we did not think anything of it. There was a wooden claiming frame, a sort of fort, where we played every lunchbreak and today would be no different. 

It then began to rain, we understood; that's what happened sometimes when the sky was grey, there was nothing we could do so we kept on playing, taking cover underneath the fort. However, before we had time to concoct games that we could play in the rain, a huge bell, like the bell of an old town crier, rang loud and slow. We knew what this meant. 

We ran for our lives, darting between the trees, following all the other children running as fast as they can through the forest to the place we all knew we needed to be. Because we ran, it was not long before we arrived at the entrance to the woodland, and when we arrived we organised into neat orderly lines, not a single foot out of line, we could sense the seriousness of the situation; although we could not discern how this event could be different from the countless times it has happened before. As we were all thinking, theorising, about what could be different about this event from the usual proceedings, our questions were all answered and we were all silenced as a great noise unlike anything I remember hearing before, a noise so loud and so ferocious that some folks began to cry. Promptly, the teachers who were in charge began to count in, to check we were all there before they began to march us off into the newest and largest building.

I remember clearly my fear, it was the first real thunderstorm I had ever experienced and I did not enjoy it one bit. I seem to remember asking my friend if these sorts of thunderstorms had ever killed anyone, for I was convinced that the dangers of a thunderstorm were unparalleled.

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