I pictured myself reading it to them out loud when I got back, since there was just no way the letter would get home before I did.
When we got to the fairgrounds, the sun was just starting to set. It was about seven-thirty.
The shadows were really long on the grass, and the clouds were pink and orange.
It looked like someone had taken sidewalk chalk and smudged the colors across the sky with their fingers.
It’s not that I haven’t seen nice sunsets before in the city, because I have—slivers of sunsets between buildings—
but I wasn’t used to seeing so much sky in every direction.
Out here in the fairgrounds, I could understand why ancient people used to think the world was flat
and the sky was a dome that closed in on top of it. That’s what it looked like from the fairgrounds,
in the middle of this huge open field. Because we were the first school to arrive,
we got to run around the field all we wanted until the teachers told us it was time
to lay out our sleeping bags on the ground and get good viewing seats.
We unzipped our bags and laid them down like picnic blankets on the grass in front of the giant movie screen in the middle of the field.
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