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I heven’t even mentioned HALF the kids who live on my hill: But if I went down the whole list it'd take FOREVER.

Mom always asks me why I'm not friends with any kids at the BOTTOM of the hill, even though, I've told her a million times. why that'll never HAPPEN.

Surrey Street is divided into two halves. There's UPPER Surrey Street, which is the hill, and LOWER Surrey Street, which is the flat part at the bottom.

And, even though we all live on the same street, the hill kids and the non-hill kids can't STAND one another.

Living on the hill is no fun. First of all, it’s really. far from the school, and that last stretch at the end of the day is no joke. ESPECIALLY when it’s hot like it has been lately.

The worst thing about living on a hill is that there's not a lot you cah DO on it. And if you want to play with a ball you can forget about it.

But the kids who live at the BOTTOM of the hill have it MADE. Their part of the street is FLAT so they can do anything they want down there. That's why all the athletes come fram LOWER Surrey Street.

The thing is, the kids who live at the bottom of our street think they OWN it. And, if any of us hill people come down there to PLAY, the Lower Surrey Street kids won't LET us.

In fact, the reason it took me four years to learn to ride a bike was because I had to do it in five-second spurts.

But when it SNOWS the tables are turned. All of a sudden the Lower Surrey Street kids want to use our hill for SLEDGING, but that's when we give those guys a taste of their own medicine.

Most of the time we can keep the Lower Surrey Street kids off the hill. But they're SNEAKY and sometimes they slip past us.

Last winter a bunch of the Lower Surrey Street kids bought the Same winter gear as the hill kids, and it was WEEKS before any of us caught on.