“I’m here for the show,” she says, looking at me unboxing my lunch. My coworker was just about to leave the lunch table when she saw me with my meal.“What do you mean? I feel like such a spectacle now. Hah!” I reply.

Today, I picked fufu and turkey in light Soup from the lunch menu. We had other kinds of options like shawarma or a salad. But I wanted something different.

“Tai, teacher, why are there so many wars? We’ve studied war after war in this textbook,” a student asks during our fifth-grade history class.We had just finished reading about the Thirty Years' War, a religious war in Europe between Roman Catholics and Protestants from 1618 to 1648.

“Comment tu t’appelle?” [What’s your name?]
“Tu parles Français?” [Do you speak French?]
“Tu manges?” [Did you eat?]
“Aujourd'hui, tu as un Français test?” [Today, you have a French test?]**

“Tai! It’s been forever since I’ve seen you! How are you? How are things? What’s new?” they asked while sipping their coffee in a local cafe.
“Not too much! I’m finishing up my final year with my master’s. I’m working on my defense for graduation at the moment, and then I graduate in June,” I reply.
“And then?” they ask, raising their brows.
“Then I head to Ghana for a summer internship,” I respond nonchalantly.