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- Do you have a driving license for a bus? My cousins agreed with me. I checked the time
- Yes, of course. for iftaar, we only had 10 minutes for iftaar. I
said:
He said with a proud smile. While my brother - Look! They are coming. Hide! All of us, hide!
was driving, I noticed something. People on the
streets were wearing very bad clothes and there My parents came with my brother. My brother
weren’t high building. There wasn’t even a said:
straight road. - Tadaa!
- Oh son!
- Uncle!
- Yes. We yelled:
- Uncle, there is no asphalt on the roads. Why - Ramadan Mubarak!
are people’s houses made from soil or rock?
Why are they wearing such poor quality clothes? My mother saw us and said:
- Look dear. Since Africa has been exploited - Did you all come and prepare food for us?
many times for many years, this African country
has become poorer and is an underdeveloped I said:
country compared to other countries. - Yes mom! I missed you so much.
- So, people took everything from them. And I hugged her. I hugged my dad, too.
- Yes, unfortunately, some countries are making Then, we heard the azan.
colonialism to increase their wealth but this is a - Let’s have our iftaar.
very wrong behavior. Today colonialism is
prohibited in line with human rights. My grandpa wanted us to sit at the table. This is
- Well didn’t they give back the money they a really special meal. We told a prayer and
exploited from Africa? started to eat. I felt really happy because this is
- No, they didn’t. my first Ramadan with all of my family coming
together in a very far away country.
I was really surprised about what Africa has
experienced. I felt so sorry. Then we came
home. I mean the home where my parents and
my brother were staying during their job. But
they didn’t know that we were in Africa. It was a
surprise. My brother went to my parents to help
them and hold them out of the house. My aunts
and my grandma did the cooking and we were
the apprentices as usual. When the meals were
ready I and my cousins set the big table. Everyt-
hing was ready for the iftaar. We looked at the
table and said to each other.

- It looks so delicious. I am so hungry.

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