Hello everyone, welcome to my blog. Let me take you on adventure or what should I call it of when I was living with my grandma and my other Brothers are there too but of all, my grandpa is the funniest, he was an illiterate and try to act literate.
I was still very small then like eight or ten years old. Me being the only girl among the three brothers, I used to follow them every where and we play together a lot but they decided not to take me out again when I told our grandpa that all of my brothers are dullard and all they know to do is to play and eat.
What happened actually was that we were given an assignment and I was on my own doing my assignment when my grandpa came back from the farm. He saw me and asked what I was doing and I told him that I was doing my assignment. He then asked me why was I doing alone and and where are my brothers that supposed to help me with it.
I told grandpa that I did not need their help because they can't help me. They don't know what I want to do and moreover they can't even read, all they know how to do is just to play and eat. I told grandpa how they went to the stream the previous day and came back late in the evening.
I don't know that what I said infuriated my grandpa because he just went inside. Some minutes later, he called me and asked if my brothers are back but I said no, he told me to call them for him when they come back.
I finished my assignment and was about to go and play with the other kids in the village when my brothers came back, I told them grandpa is looking for them and they asked me what I told him when he asked of them which I lied that I did not say anything.
We all went to grandpa and met him in the sitting room listening to a program on the radio. When we got to him he asked my brothers where were they when he asked of them and the three of them said the went to the farm.
My grandpa asked me to go and bring my assignment book which I did. he asked me to read the first line for him, and I looked at him like what this man saying, because we all know that he can't read nor write but nevertheless I read it for him. "Ali is living in Mr Garba house, he is in primary three and he is a good boy".
Immediately I finished reading it he asked me to give it to one of my brother which I did, he knows our grandpa can not read and he also can not but he was sharp enough to use his number six he started reading jargons "Ali is a Garba he is chikinni of something, he come, he go" I started laughing inwardly and wanted to correct him but he step on my toes and I keep quiet.
My grandpa just nod his head because he thinks he read the right thing just because he heard Ali and Mr Garba. My second brother did the same but my third brother is the worst on, he couldn't read and also couldn't use his number six so he serve all the punishment. He was starved for two day and was given a hard work to do.
We all left the sitting room and immediately we get outside, we all started laughing but my laugh was the loudest, how can they think of such jargons and to my other brother who can't even read jargons, how can he be so stupid I keep laughing and when I saw that my third brother's mood have changed I left them gently.
When my uncle came around, I told him about it and he couldn't control his laughter he laughed so hard that I started to wondering what is wrong we with him. He called them and told them to started learning from because when next he come back and still couldn't read he will not take it lightly with them
I started feeling myself, I told my brothers that I will teach them but not for free. Anytime I want to teach them they must promised me maybe their meat or money because I was their young master.
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