Lunar's Fate (Nigeria themed)

PTE

years old girl and the fifth child out

vorite kid as I was

while my older siblings stayed back at home to do the chores. My parents love

e was an outpour the last night. I

cut grass as my parents were clearing t

d so my father suggested we cleaned up our t

other villagers who were al

each other. Sometimes, two different families will come together and prepare meals fo

the moonlight to play hide or seek or wrestling for the boys. Sometime

I was going to write my First School Leaving Certificate examination which would take me to a Secondary School

as a "lady meant for cook

always inquisitive both in

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days into months an

and was prepared for my First School Leaving C

ms because my poor parents wer

hink of way to support my parents

ing evening time at the market square. I did that everyday a

some chores off my shoulders to enable her read and con

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for my exams. Saturday was chosen by the Government so as to allow the parents opport

located outside Udu town as the primary sch

he exams. Few hours later, I was out of the exam hall with a soft s

how was the exam?

m glad all what I read was what

thank

d eat. I'm sure your made must have prep

ords, they headed

meal of pounded yam and Egusi soup(Melon

but I was awake. I was fee

ight making their usual sounds and I could also hear children voices

heard my parents speaking in low tunes. T

is done with her primary scho

of all our children, I would have loved her to further her educatio

ere followed

ess in his voice as h

y parents as the light from the lantern was too dim. I also knew

ly window we had in the room and p

o the city either as a house-maid or marry her o

me sad and I made loud sou

ure answered them in negation because I didn't want to make them

as if no one cared. It was like, I was watchi

y, my parents

er were thinking on what to do about your case and we came to a point that you'll have to choose.

decisions, I made up my mind to choose the opt

ll be coming from the city and will help me out. I was glad