School Chairs

    Written by: Muhammad Anwar Andar

Aslam and Arifa are going home from school. Aslam’s school uniform is dirty with dust. Peddler comes and they welcome him. Peddler asks Aslam about his school uniform. Arifa says that Aslam broke his chair and then he sat on the ground.

Peddler turns on the talking box. A boy, a resident of Qarabagh district, Kabul province says: “one I climbed on my school chair and I broke it. Our teacher frorced me to sit on the ground.”

Arifa says that the headmaster wanted her to send Aslam’s father to school. Peddler says that other students also use the same tables and chairs in the school and if they do not pay attention to them, then would face problems. Aslam promises that he would never play again with school chairs and tables and would not allow his other classmates to write on the table or play with tables

 Peddler appreciates his opinion and goes to the next lane.

Second lane:

Adila and Hameed are making chairs and tables from the paper and then they place them in a row and say that this is a classroom.

Peddler arrives and they warmly welcome him. Peddler asks them about their business. Adila says the whole story to him. Peddler appreciates their enthusiasm to school. Children ask about their gifts.

Peddler brings out a small magical chair and table and the table and chair tell a poem about school tables and chairs and they want the children to learn the poem.

Adila says that she remembers a joke. Peddler asks her to tell it. Adila says: “a boy says to the other boy that eating bread in the night causes obesity. The other asks how bread know that it is the night!”

Peddler likes the joke and he goes to the lane of the story.

Third story:

Karim and Palwasha are waiting for the peddler and Golden Wing fairy to come and tell them the next part of the story: Nek-Bad.

Peddler comes with the fairy and they welcome them.

 Palwasha asks the fairy to tell them the new part of the story. Fairy asks them to tell them the previous part first and then she would tell them the next part.

Palwasha and Karim says the previous part as follow:

Nek-Bad: Part 5th