At age 8 he was yanked from his sphere of comfort and dropped into a school speaking a foreign language, teaching a foreign language. Plus, he dealt with crocodiles. But my dad says that the command of his father was the final word on everything, period. His parents farmed white and black pepper. He and his six brothers and sisters chased chickens around the yard and gossiped about the snake that ate the neighbor s baby.
Life is basic.
No frills just sort of hard. That s about all. Transcription Click the croc to listen to text in blue below. I usually cross the river first at a diagonal, and then go down the river to, to uh my school. Crossed the river and went to school.