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September 2, 2007

The Teacher's Meal

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A Gambian meal is typically all served in one large bowl.

Men eat with men. women with women, childen with children.

Sand gioes a very long way. Red escaped a beating - accidents happen, maybe if Red had stayed around things would have been different - but another day is another day inThe Gambia.

There was the first day I been to school
Not in '94 or '93
But the first year I'm starting school
That time i didn't know
What is school

And my father take us there
We been to there, they register us
Then they pay our school fees
And the moment our fathers left to go home
And then we follow
them

Our father say, 'What is wrong?'
Then we said, 'We finished school'
because that time we don't know 'What is school'
Until (this) day we go and see a chair and a room

One day our teachers always send me to Fabala Kunda
I go there every day to take his food
After school I go there everyday
Unti one day
He send me to go and get his food
I'm walking to get home
And I hit a stone
And the food fell down
It is rice, in a bowl, with fish and tomatoes
And onions and pepper and potatoes and oil
Then I was carrying that to the teacher

The food fell down
All the food it explode
The fish go this way
The potatogo this way
The rice go this way
They all explode
Like someone who is going to Europe
They explode

Then i just pick, pick them up
That time , it's full of sand
I put them on the bowl
Then I take it to our teacher
I walk into my teachers house
that time my teacher is lying down
I put the food next to the door
Then I ran out

And the next day
I went to school
The teacher say 'eh Elsa, the food has pour down'
I sat 'Teacher, it happen like that'

The teachers name is Mr Fatty . . .

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