Build A Fire!

BUILDING A FIRE was probably one of the hardest things I think i've ever had to do. I started out by walking around the woods behind my house for about 10 minutes looking for good sticks. We have a fire pit in the back yard made of sand and stone. I placed all the sticks into the pit. I began to try to light the sticks with a lighter. It took me about 5 minutes to realize that lighting the wood first wasn't working and that making a fire is NOT EASY. I thought it would be a good idea to try to put some paper in between some of the sticks. I went inside and grabbed a few sheets of paper off of my dads printer. For 5 minutes I tried lighting the paper and all that happened was the paper burned without ever burning any of the wood. I couldn't figure out how I was going to make this fire, then it finally hit me. I had leaves all around the backyard that were dead. I walked around my backyard for about 10 minutes gathering a handfull of leaves and taking them back and forth to my fire pit. I ended up with about 3 or 4 handfulls of dead leaves on my fire pit. Dead leaves are flammable apparently because when I placed a bunch of leaves on top of my pile of sticks, I lit a leaf on fire then suddenly the fire spread from one leaf to the next and so on. It started to ignite all of the sticks and eventually I had an actual fire. The whole process took me about 30 minutes to make a small fire.