•Byron
had wooden furniture made for the living room. In
typical rural homes, furniture is rare.
People often have simple short benches to sit on. Local people don’t bother with benches,stools or chairs,
but when visitors come it is polite to offer them a stool to sit on. At church & rural schools people sit on
a small brick.
Books - it is difficult to
get books here, & they’re expensive.
It’s also hard to maintain them. The
humidity during rainy season destroys them.
Byron has more books on his shelves than any of the school libraries we visited!
Even without schoolbooks, the secondary (high school) students we met are knowledgeable about literature. Sinya & Samuel can quote Shakespeare &
are infatuated with “The Diary of Anne Frank”.
Byron’s house is very bright & airy. He has books, but his neighbors do not!
See the bricks?
Those are seats at church!
In the Living Room