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"We all eat together at about eight
o’clock. My favourite sweet is chocolate. Most of the chocolate you can buy here is
European. I go to bed at about nine o’clock on weekdays, and ten o’clock at
weekends. Sometimes my mum gives me a special treat just before I go to bed: it’s a
kind of sweet flavoured pea which she buys in the market. Some nights we are troubled by
mosquitoes, but we don’t sleep under nets, we just burn mosquito coils to stop them
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animals because I love all sorts: sheep, goats, big dogs like Dobermans, and my pigeons. I
was given the first pigeons by a cousin. I love them because they never go far away. "This
is quite a new area of Bamako. People are building a lot, and a lot of people are moving
into the area, which is a good thing because it means I will have a lot of new friends.
There’s no serious crime, no murder or anything like that. The only real problem is
that the place is very dirty. There is so much rubbish around, and there is no proper
drainage for the sewage, which encourages mosquitoes.
"I imagine that children in England do karate, ride their bikes, and learn to
play football, but I don’t think they have the space just to wander from one place to
another like we do here. I think they do a lot of the same things as we do, but don’t
have much room to play."
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