Fireflies

My childhood was wonderful with the days playing with friends in the neighborhood. I always seem weaker than boys come from a farming family, and joined the labor action to help the family farm. In return I was very intelligent, very smart, educated know. Then almost as the leader of the kids.

             Workers are still en play sessions, police arrested robbers do we scream hoarse laughter hurts my neck and abdomen. The game hopscotch, snail umbrella, jumping freight, or chess always do our countryside little kids after-school charm and labor tensions. But remember the most and is probably the most elaborate game fireflies.

              Initially we took a picture of the television modeling clay, hollow in the middle, one side of the rectangle to be put into fitting and hin him a fragment of a tungsten bulb clear.
A small side of the rectangle is opaque enough to insert a small hole firefly passing. Then the TV that land will be taken to dry. Arrive at the noisy mass fireflies fly over, fly back in the garden. We catch the fireflies by hand or net. Then carefully insert them through a small hole of the TV pretty land. And so, our TVs glow gradually with many degrees of fireflies. Adults go through and see the fireflies of us also feel excited. The beautiful and bright television increasingly, the group huddled together watching input. In the dark could see each other and grinned secretary together to enjoy the fruits of their labor. To have a bright and beautiful television. The kids we took two evenings to chase, and cheered pointing. But all we are very happy and nervous wait to enjoy the fruits of their labor. After inserting the last fireflies through the little hole, we carefully to bolt into the hole or when inserting a piece of wet soil on it and a small hole to breathe and pull them still obscures the cloth the television off and start "screening". Usually it starts with a guy boisterous applause of the party. Then there are those men laughing deadlock with the wide mouth of the tooth is teeth ngoang all outdoors. Again both were held briefly in turn and admire the gorgeous glowing television. The last screen is always scrambling to get hold television screen and how it crashed to the ground breaking. Fireflies flew and disappeared in the darkness of the garden. Sometimes we still itching for them. But all were very happy and laughing together deadlock. The screening ended, one of his house.
             From time to time, especially in the cool summer evening breeze, we saw the flickering fireflies fly over. All kids eyes lit up again. Having kids whispered: We fireflies go play! The group nodded. So the next day shambled land grab as television, the television will be chosen as the most beautiful fireflies television to film packaging.

                Now summer village no longer see many fireflies. Because of shrinking farmland and vegetable preservatives kill, where all the fireflies. But in my childhood memories, the fireflies flickering in the garden are very beautiful like diamonds in the night stillness. It was brilliant and thrilling chases fly in English and laughed in a corner clear course garden island of poverty in old kids.

                                                                  Author: Pham Thi Hoi