I am Garrison. I live on a small farm in Kenya. Since the age of nine, I have helped to look after my family's cows. As a child, in my free time, I enjoyed trying new ideas. Sometimes I could make my own inventions, such as electronic toys from car parts and peach—picking sticks. I also made other useful daily things for my neighbors.
At the age of thirteen, I invented something that changed my life. One night, a lion came into my family's farm and killed one of our cows. I was angry. However, I thought catching the lion was not 'a safe way to solve the problem. So I decided to "invent" a solution.
The first idea I got was to use fire, because I thought the lion was scared of fire. But I came to know that didn't help, because it was even helping the lion to see through the cowshed （牛棚）. However, I didn't give up. I continued.
And a second idea I got was to use a scarecrow （稻草人）. I was trying to trick the lion into thinking that I was standing near the cowshed. But the lion was very clever. It came the first day, saw the scarecrow, and went back. But the second day, it came and found that the scarecrow didn't move. It was always there!So the lion jumped in and killed another cow.
However, one night, I was walking around the cowshed with a torch （手电筒）. To my surprise, the lion didn't show up. Then I realized that the lion was afraid of a moving light. So I had an idea. . .
