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Greetings from St. Theresa’s Lower Basic School in The Gambia.
How are you all in England? We hope you are all well and
we are so glad you are our friends.
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You find us at the end of the dry season. It
has not rained since November.
But now the first rain has
come.
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So now the rains have come it is
time to plant crops and check our
roofs to make sure they do not leak.
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The mangoes are almost ripe and ready
to eat. They are delicious. We have a mango trees in our
school grounds. Do you eat mangoes?
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We have been learning about clothes and we
have made a presentation
about what we have learned. We hope you like it!
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People wear clothes for many reasons like to cover their nakedness or to make themselves look beautiful. They also wear clothes to
show they are part of a group - like your school
uniform or a football team strip or what the supporters wear
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In Africa , because it is hot we have traditionally worn light airy clothes that let the air get to our bodies so we can keep cool. The ladies are wearing bulabah and men are wearing haftans. But more and more people
are wearing European clothes like jeans and T-shirts, especially in the towns. So on Friday all the adults try to wear traditional African clothes. And when it is special occasion like weddings and the naming of a new baby we all dress up in African clothes. And at the Muslim festivals of
Tobaski and Koriteh we are all given new African clothes and shoes to wear.
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Look at this tailor workshop. The young tailor nearest the camera is wearing jeans and a T-shirt. The older
tailors are wearing traditional African clothes.
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There are many tailors in the Gambia who make clothes. You choose your material
and tell the tailor what design you want. Most
tailors are men.
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Today we are off to see Mariama.
She is a very good lady tailor we
know.
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Hallo I am Mariama and I am going to make some clothes
for Musa and Binta. First they have to chose the materials and then tell me the designs
they want.
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These are the materials we have
chosen. Mine is tie-dye and Binta’s is a printed pattern of Africa and African
drums
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Now we have told Mariama the designs we want she measures us carefully to make sure she makes them the right
size.
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Here is Mariama with her sewing machine making
clothes.
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And here is what Mariama made for us
from the cloths we chose. Do you like
them?
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We are at the market in
Serrakunda to buy some
second hand European
clothes. Most of the clothes
arrive in large containers by
sea. We have 25 dalasi each to
spend.
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Often they are just dumped in a pile and you have to sort through and
find something you like?
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I have bought this T-
shirt for 25
dalasiMy T-shirt
cost 25 dalasi too. Do you like
what we have
bought?
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We are going to say Good bye now. We hope you enjoyed
our presentation on clothes. And we
hope we will hear from you soon. Bye.