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Dreams
and obsessions
We
find out about the things that are important in your life. Do you live
for football, or theatre or - like one of our guests on this programme
- collecting junk!
Henry
is my name and my pals nickname me footie addict because of my obsession
for sports especially football.
My
obsession began just over a decade ago during the Italia 90 World Cup.
In the opening game between Argentina and Cameroun, I supported Argentina
because of Maradona while everyone in my family supported Cameroun because
we are Africans.
After the
game I cried very much because Argentina lost and from then on my obsession
began. Since then, I have never lost track of any major football tournament
and I keenly follow all the major leagues in Europe.
As a result,
whiles in High School I was nearly dismissed for sneaking out to watch
UEFA championship league matches. I was always ditching classes to listen
to Sports Roundup on the BBC World Service and this eventually affected
my results in my exams but nothing can stop me.
When I was a kid, I was once asked my future profession. I couldn't tell
them, because I know they were going to get mad at me but after hours
of persuasion, I opened my little mouth and said a football star much
to the amusement of my parents.
My dream is to be a top class defender who will play in all the top five
leagues in Europe. I hope it comes true on day.
Henry Kwenin
I was born
in a very beautiful country, Vietnam. Since I was a little girl a dream
of seeing the whole world has become bigger in my mind.
I desire one day I could travel around the world, see how the outside
looks like and how the other people live. I strongly believe that my life
would be less meaningful if I never know new people, new culture.
It really frustrates me since I seemingly have no chance to travel without
money. I cannot leave Vietnam with ease.
I highly admire one who can cycle around the world and wish there is someone
out there who shares the same dream with me.
Is it crazy enough for a girl to feed up a dream of cycling round the
world?
Quynh Le
Literate people take reading for granted. My
life and that of my father - an illiterate miner - have been deeply touched
by it.
I was born in 1965. The British colonial officers in the early 1940's
employed my father in the tin-mines. He made a small fortune and had a
family in jos, Nigeria.
One thing plagued him however, he lacked education. Educated people exploited
him as he claims. He vowed to spend anything he got to train his children.
I was to become a beneficiary.
I was sent to an expensive private school. Learning to read books in my
environment meant a lot of me and my father. It always amazed him to see
a book 'talk' - same with my mother.
She later on got acquainted with a buyer of auctioned household goods,
who visits white missionaries, and asked him to start buying old books
for me - no subject in particular.
Through this I got books in all manner of fields, even the occult. This
was to shape my outlook to education. I love everything. I have degrees
in Veterinary Medicine, Applied Parasitology and a Postgraduate Diploma
in Journalism.
Books are like human brains to me. I hold them in supreme reverence.
Nothing gives my father greater satisfaction now than seeing me educated.
I have sponsored three of my brothers through University. For all of us
the experience is like being given a torchlight in a deep dark well.
My father too learnt to read at the age of seventy. We have now broken
the circle of darkness called illiteracy. I now see clearly the exploitation
my father cried about as an illiterate.
What is anybody's hope without education in our rapidly changing world?
Reading is the hope of mankind.
Dr. Samdi Lazarus Musa
Borno State
Nigeria
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