In an apartment meant for non teaching staff in a university you can hear the sound of a woman screaming trying to give birth. After seven hours the wailing of a baby can be heard waa! waa!. It's a girl you can hear the midwife saying to a man standing outside the room.
This was the very day I was born, I grew up in a family of seven including mom and dad. With me being the second girl and and the fourth child 9f my family.
At age three I welcomed a little brother making our family complete. My name is Alexandra but people at home call me mama.
At age 10 I started helping mom in selling fufu. So my daily life since 10 was sleeping by 11pm and waking by 3am in order to help my mom in the making of the fufu. My siblings and I are to supply it by morning.
Due to this I'm always late to school leading to me getting punished.
This caused a lot of setback for me because I had to repeat my year six due not meeting the requirements for the next class.
The day it happened my brother Jonathan who we call big Joe came home singing mama no name!, no name.
And I burst into tears because it was trend for those who failed that class.
At age 15 I realize why mum worked so hard even with the fact that dad salary was more than enough to cater for our needs.
Dad would rather give food to his siblings and we should go hungry.
The day I understood this started as a normal day, mum was asking dad for money in order to get foodstuff and some of household goods but he said no money.
Which caused an arguments between them
Not quite long after the fight his sister pregnant came to our house.
Then father went into his room to a sack and left the house.
Mother was still decideing what to cook for her sister in law when dad came with foodstuff he had just bought from the market
The next day his sister went into labor and my father who claimed to not have money paid the hospital bill.
The funniest thing was that father paid for all her other childbirth.
Looking back life has always been hard for me I guess.
Honk! Honk! The horn of the bus jolts a young lady sitting in bus from her thoughts.
Alex check the bustling city of Alagna through the window of the bus and hope that the decision of coming to the city in order to help her sister Clara with her business and gain experience will be the right thing to do and a turning point in her life.