The Forest Is Our Home—The
Sequel To Jan’s Mysterious Adventure— by A Valentine Joseph
This story is about a what-if
moment I had when I visited the Asa Wright Nature Centre in the Arima Valley of the Northern Range in Trinidad and Tobago in the West
Indies. I made this visit to
Asa Wright with the members of a youth group I belonged to. My what-if moment took place when we arrived at the
center. The first thing I noticed, were the trees and the sweet singing of the
birds. I love trees and birds, so the area was recipe for my imagination. Some
of us decided to go bird watching without a guide. That was a big mistake
because we got lost deep in the forest. We tried to find our way back, and we
ended up on a cliff. The cliff was slippery, and one person started to slip at
a terrific speed toward the edge. Everyone started screaming and shouting,
horror-struck, hoping that he would stop—which, at the bare edge, he did. We
formed a human chain and helped him back onto dry ground. Everyone was talking
about what would have happened if he had fallen over the edge of the cliff.
I was thinking, what if people were living deep in this
forest? Would they be happy to live in the heart of nature? And I decided
to write a story.
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