Traveling to a place i have ever been

by Bakary Bojang (Gambia)

A leap into the unknown Senegal

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Once upon a time when i was in my ten years old my grandma told me to visit her i told my mum and dad they both reply you can go now, i was sad to hear that i when up to my room and my mum fellow me to my room and she said if you finished your grade 12 exams you go with me, and i was saying no i want to go with grandma, she try untill she convice me and i said after grade 12 exams she reply yes. Years later i finish my grade 12 exams, the next day i when to the living room and meet my mum and dad and i told them that do u remember when grandmother said i should go and visit her you guys said no untill i finished my grade 12 exams and i am done now so my dad said you are not going untill the results are out base on your performance you will be allow to go , i looked at my mum she yes i cannot do nothing i agree i waited untill the results where out and i toke aggregate 34th, when i reach home and my dad saw the results the first thing he said was you are not living this home talk less of this country, i cried the hold day , i lock myself in my room for days and my mum always take the second key and opened the door to Bering me food to eat but i will always tell her am not hungry but she will start telling me u are my son if you don't eat i will not eat too so u use to eat with her days have pass by i when to an instruction and i did my certificate when if finished my exams my dad tell me that now you can go and visit your grandmother i was very excited u when and told the news to my mum,e she said then i will take u there first thing in the morning i said okay but she first asked me are you not going for your attachment i said to her next month we will start our attachment she said okay in the morning we will live this country she said to me go and arrange your cloths i went, at night i cannot sleep thing how am i going to get there , early morning mum wake me up i take bath and then pray before living and i went to my dad he also pray for me and i huge him tide and we live the compound and entered in the car we went up Banjul the capital city of the Gambia and when to the terminal and we crossed the river and when to other side of the country we take a car that take us to broder of the two countries the immegration offices do there job that's the checking of ID cards or your passport for you to enter in to another country we then entered to another car that will take ur to Dakar the capital city of Senegal i was hoping to reach but the road was so far we reach around six o'clock in the evening , when we were going we take the starting of the country from the small village then in to the town and we the the capital city where my grandmother is called libertehsix my grandma was so happy to see me she said at last you are here in my house make yourself comfortable we sit for a while and we eat dinner, i and my mum when to bed because we have sitted for Soo long , when we work up we starting talking about the difficulities we have on our way coming and we were make fun of each other, some days later before my mum goes back she told me you have seen the beauty of Senegal yet i reply i have seen many things and they are all not that beauty as you are saying she reply wait untill i go home i be will waiting for story telling i said okay some days later my grandma tells me to go and wash my self we going, she take to to see the outer part of there statehouse it was very very big and beautiful and alone the way when we where going we show some startus and water flude in the nibble of the when going to statehouse was sawing some beautiful place like the statehouse, the independence place and the national assembly we where going to go to the University of Senegal but it was getting dark so we decided to go back home the fellow day i went to the market will my grandma there markets are very big some are small and there having a nice cultural dance that is mostly done at nights and people will come out and be dancing i have a lot of fun. To where i have every been so i decided that i will always travel to any country of the world if i have the chance and the financial to travel i will not even think of other thing but to travel to go and lean from another country from different people around the world. Thank you