"I wake up when I hear my mum preparing breakfast. On weekdays it’s usually
still dark. We do have an electric light in our room, but we often have power cuts. When I
get up I wash my face and then feed my pigeons -- they’re my own pet birds."The
pullover I have on today is really for weekdays, but this is the cold time of year, so as
it’s the only one I’ve got, I’m wearing it on a Sunday. My favourite
clothes are jeans, but unfortunately I don’t have any. I don’t know how much
they cost, but I know that they are very expensive. To sleep in, I have an old shirt and
some tracksuit bottoms. I don’t have to wear school uniform.
"I eat various things for breakfast, it depends on the day. Mainly porridge,
sometimes with beans and coffee, or milk and bread at weekends. My mum usually makes it.
She buys millet and sugar for the porridge once a month. My dad buys powdered milk: we
don’t use fresh milk. My favourite food is beans, because they make you fart!
"We all eat breakfast together, in the passage outside our rooms. We eat in
silence. There is a saying: ‘The eating mouth does not speak.’
"I leave the house at 7.30am, and it takes about ten minutes to walk to
school. It’s called the École Fondamentale Fasso-Kanu."
