My friends from Abuzaria
Our students from Abuzaria university, Nigeria, originally uploaded by peeyush.
The tale is almost two years old. I, with smdesai, were to teach 5 delegates from Abuzaria university my favorite topic - Fundamentals of databases.
The gang was pretty cool. The person on the left is whom we tagged as the king. A king with two wives. He was a true leader as he would control the rest of four or slay those who wouldn't obey him.
Me remembers him most for the following two conversations. It was fun to be with him.
Occasion 1:
smdesai informed the gang that a vehicle will be escorting them to juhu. After sometime, King approaches me.
King: Which all animals are there?
Me: where?
King: Zoo
Me: (remembering from madam's conversation and thinking he is talking of juhu) There are people there. At most, you may see some pet dog.
King: You keep people in zoo?
Me: (thoroughly confused) What are you talking about?
King: zoo
Me: juhu?
King: zoo
Me: you mean, Z-O-O?
King: yeah
Me: They are taking you to juhu, not zoo. Juhu has a beach.
King: What do we there?
Me: (Can't think of an answer. Just can't tell them to take bath in that water.) Just roam around. And protect yourself from junk food and crowd.
Occasion 2:
In between class break, we accommodate ourselves in cafeteria for tea and snacks. The conversation goes like this -
King: Where are those people?
Me: Which people?
King: Those who dance on streets.
Me: (Thinking of street dancers) They don't dance always on the same street. They choose different streets. May be if you are lucky you will see one yourself. By the way, where did you try look for them?
King: We tried looking in all direction while coming by bus.
Me: Oh, they don't dance on busy streets.
King: But in movies they dance only on busy streets.
Me: (Shocked!) Who are you talking about?
King: Public in general. Like those boys girls dance in movies, I guess, people would also do the same.
Me: That happens only in movies.
King: (Shocked!) So, real life is different?
Me: In India, very much!