I would like to talk about my buddy who was my best friend when I was a little child. During that time I had a few friends, oh my god, my best friends, but this particular person I am still in touch with him now. So yeah, he is my best friend and besides that I call him my brother. You know, when I was a little boy I grew up in this small village in Balakka and when I was at the age of 18 this person came to our neighborhood. His name was Dawa. Before that he used to live in Llongi but they moved to this particular place because his mother was from my neighborhood. And since he was my neighbor then it was automatic that we became friends, you know, children they don’t have much of a choice, they don’t look into the character of any other person. Everybody they can be friends with. So this happened to me, we became friends and I am so glad that we did because you know, we became friends because of the closeness we had, you know, every time when I woke up he was the first boy I would see, you know, more in my family we were 8 children and 5 girls and 4 boys, so 3 boys I mean, and they were much older than me so it was difficult to find my peer, my peer, like a person who had the same age with me and we became friends because of that and we used to do things a lot together or for example we could go hanging out playing football and doing all sorts of stuff that children did like playing games like hide and seek and our favorite game was football, you know, we could go out in the morning and coming back in the evening when we had dairy and Dawa, I remember our parents used to shout at us, oh don’t do this blah blah blah so he was like, yeah. And of course we are still in touch right now because you know, the friendship was so strong that we became friends, like from friends to family, like I call him my big brother and he does the same to me. Thank you so much. Stop recording.
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I would like to talk about my buddy who was my best friend when I was a little child. During that time, I had a few friends, but this particular person I am still in touch with now. So yeah, he is my best friend, and besides that, I call him my brother. You know, when I was a little boy, I grew up in this small village in Balakka, and when I was 18, this person came to our neighborhood. His name was Dawa. Before that, he used to live in Llongi, but they moved to this particular place because his mother was from my neighborhood. Since he was my neighbor, it was automatic that we became friends. You know, children don’t have much of a choice; they don’t look into the character of any other person. Everybody can be friends. So this happened to me; we became friends, and I am so glad that we did because we became friends because of the closeness we had. Every time I woke up, he was the first boy I would see. In my family, we were eight children: five girls and three boys, and they were much older than me, so it was difficult to find my peer, a person who was the same age as me. We became friends because of that, and we used to do a lot of things together. For example, we would hang out, play football, and do all sorts of stuff that children did, like playing games like hide and seek. Our favorite game was football. We could go out in the morning and come back in the evening. I remember our parents used to shout at us, saying, 'Oh, don’t do this,' and so on. And of course, we are still in touch right now because the friendship was so strong that we became friends, like from friends to family. I call him my big brother, and he does the same for me. Thank you so much. Stop recording.
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