KATEMBO TP D’ANGLAIS 102

KIBASUBWAMO
Gratien
N° 37
GGT 2023
GROUPE B

Once upon a time, somewhere on this marvelous

Earth.
My family rented this house in the middle of the
countryside. I was four years old. In the field next to the house, there were
radioactive drums, and we were forbidden to go and play there!

But behind the house, a huge, unfenced orchard

spread out. It was my favorite playground. Certainly, in my eyes as a little girl
it seemed huge to me! It was stil more than four hundred meters long! At the
time, we knew of famine, and thanks to this orchard, we had been fed for year:
apricot trees, cherry trees, pear trees, fig trees, almond trees, meddler trees,
plum trees, olive trees, pomegranate trees, date plum trees, wild grapevines,
and so on. All we had to do was to cross this countryside path that bordered
the house. This path was vanishing in the nearby forest, where there were pine
trees, and their pine kernel, oak trees, and their acorn.

At first, Mum accompagnied us there, we played

and watched all this little world at our feets, and Mum taught us about
everything we could find there.