Story of the Week
April 22, 2013
This week, we have a story written by Darlene Russell , from Huntingdon, Quebec. Darlene is enrolled in literacy classes at the Huntingdon Learning Centre.
Nigeria
by Darlene Russell
Okanya Chila is my friend from Nigeria. We chat every day on facebook for about three hours.
He is 25 years old. He has four sisters and five brothers. He also helps take care of his brother and sister because he loves the challenges. He is starting his own company. The name is Argo Allied. His company is working to establish a palm kernel oil factory.
Nigeria is the largest black populated country in the world. Nigeria has an area of 923.8sq.m that’s about twice the size of California. Nigeria is in Africa.
The population in 2020 will be 152 million people. The languages spoken are English and other language like Hausa and Yorba.
The religions are Muslim and Christian.
The health life expectancy in 2011 is 47 years old. The food of Nigeria includes meat, vegetables like chicken, mutton, lamb, turkey, geese, pidgin, fish, fowl, crab, shrimp and other sea food.
The fruits are bananas, orange, tangerines, pineapples, guacos, watermelons, melons, grapes, limes, mangoes and apples.
Nigeria’s animals are elephants, buffalos, lions, leopards, side striped jackals, wild dogs, cheetahs, warthog hippopotamuses, hyenas, sheep’s, goats, gorillas and a lot different snakes and antelopes, blue dukes, klipspringers.
Okanya and I talk about everything under the sun like our family and friends.
He talked about coming to Canada some day. It would be great to see each other in person because we are real good friends. He asks me about school all the time, which is great.
He likes to have a copy of the paper I am doing on him. I’ll send him a copy someday. I enjoy talking to people all over world; I learn something new from them every day which is great.
[This story was taken with permission, from this publication - Collection of Texts: Class of 2011 – 2012, p. 1, by the Huntingdon Learning Centre.]
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