"What do you want to be when you grow up?," the teacher asked, leaning back into his almost rotten, broken black chair in which he always sat carefully, supported by the deteriorating, dirty classroom walls. His voice could be heard by anyone who could pass near by his classroom. All students were attentive and eager to hear the response from this slim, miserable and unhealthy Hakuzari. Few students from his village knew that both his parents had died after succumbing to the ravages of unknown terrible disease, which children were not allowed to mention except the elders. His father was the first to die, followed by his mother few months later, leaving Hakuzari in the guidance of his very old maternal grandmother. He loved his grandmother. She had been everything he had. Every day, early in the morning, she cooked corn porridge for him." Children of these days are too much fragile like eggs, that’s why they like eating eggs and bread at breakfast. Eat porridge,...