Reminiscences from Innocence in Retrospective - II
Thursday, December 21st, 2006Short stories for humane resurgence.
It was second grade now, Mrs. Lang our new class teacher announced that we will celebrate green, and make our sandy school green with plants. Now that was interesting, all I could see around our school was sand, even our school emblem was the scorpion. Our school was on the outskirts of Dhahran built on a deserted old American Airbase in the Saudi desert established by the American Consulate. It was more of a city than a school with thousands of students and classroom blocks spread all over the place. Classrooms were bunkers; Dorms were huge canvas structures where fighter jets used to be maintained. The new airbase was still near by and at recess we could sit in the baseball field watching the jets take off and (more…)