     Anonymous | Unrecorded Date
This is how it's for us to respond any kind of question, no matter how complicated it's. Here is proof example! Even a kids can relate to this and here is how a young Somali kid from Minneapolis responded to his class after the teacher gave them an assignment.
The Story of Uncle Elmi
.The teacher gave her fifth grade class an assignment: get their
parents to tell them a story with a moral at the end of it. The next day, the
kids came back and one by one began to tell their stories.
.Kathy said "My father's a farmer and we have a lot of egg-laying hens.
One time we were taking our eggs to market in a basket on the front seat
of the pickup when we hit a bump in the road and all the eggs went flying and
.broke and made a mess. The moral is don't put all of your eggs in one
.basket. "Very good Kathy", said the teacher, "what is your story Lucy?"
"We had a dozen eggs one time, but when they hatched, we only got 10
live chickens. The moral is don't count your chickens until they're
hatched. "That was a fine story, Lucy. Guled, do you have a story to share?"
"Yes ma'am, my daddy told me a story about my Uncle Elmi. Elmi Gaab
was a green beret in Ethiopia war back in 77 and his MIG got hit. He had to crash
land in enemy territory and all he had was a Kilo of Qat, a machine gun
and a mindi (knive). He half kilo of the qat on the way down so it wouldn't burn and
then landed in the middle of 100 enemy troops. He killed 70 of them with
the machine gun until he ran out of bullets, then he killed 20 more with
his big mindi till the blade broke and then he killed the last 10 with his
bare hands."
.
."Good heavens," said the horrified teacher, "what kind of moral did
your daddy tell you from that horrible story." And what is that Qat thing?
"Don't •••• with Uncle Elmi when he's been eating qat." And Qat is the first enemy of man, especially Somali one's…………! |
