What is the Class?

 

Written by: Najia Nijat

First Lane

Lima and Ilyas are playing in the alley.Ilyas is drawing something on the ground and says to Lima that he wants to draw a class.

Lima asks that what is the class? Peddler arrives with his rabbit and them great him. Peddler asks what are they doing? Ilyas says that he is drawing a class on the ground but as Lima doesn’t go to school, she doesn’t know the class.

Peddler brings out a magic mirror from his bag and shows them a class.

Ilyas becomes happy when he watches students and a teacher in a class.

Lima says that the class seems like house’s room but there are chairs and tables in the class.

Ilyas explains to lima that the board on which the teacher is writing on it, is called blackboard and the thing he writes with is called chalk. Lima asks about a small pillow near the blackboard. Ilyas says that it is a duster and teacher and students erase the blackboard with it. Lima says that some books are shown in front of the students.

Peddler turns the other side of the mirror.

Lima sees that there is a village and some children are sitting under a tree and a man is standing in front of them. She asks about them. peddler says that in some places of Afghanistan, there are no buildings for schools and students have to study under trees or in the tents.

Peddler put the magic mirror back in the bag and asks lima if she learned about the class.

Lima says that a class is a place where a teacher teaches lessons to his students. The class might have a room or students might study under a tent or a tree and there are students, a teacher, books, notebooks, pens, blackboard, chalk and a duster in a class.

The rabbit tells them a poem about the class as a gift and asks them to learn it. The peddler and his rabbit go to another alley.

Second Lane:

Khalida asks Mirwais to tell her a new joke but he doesn’t remember. Peddler arrives with his rabbit. Mirwais asks Khalida to tell a joke but Khalida doesn’t know any joke either.

The rabbit tells the following joke:

Once some ants went to drink water from a stream. An elephant came and made the water dirty by his feet. An ant climbed on the elephant’s head and asks others that if they allow her, she would sink the elephant in the water!

Mirwais and Khalida like the joke. Peddler asks them to find some new jokes for next time and he goes to the other alley.

The Lane of the Story:

Haroon and Masooda are waiting for the peddler to come and tell them the new episode of the story of “The Letter”.

Peddler comes and after greeting he asks about the previous part of the story.

Haroon says that Malai’s aunt was living in another village and she was sick. Malalai ’s father and Tooryalai left the home for her visit.

Masooda says that when they reach to a desert, as there is heavy snowfall, Malalai’s father’s leg slips into a canal’s well and he breaks his leg.

Haroon says that there is no one to help Tooryalai’s father. Tooryalai writes about the event in a piece of paper and hangs it around the dog's neck and the dog goes back home.

Peddler continues the fourth episode:

 Episode Four:

When the dog reaches home, Malalai is busy in sweeping the yard. Malalai sees that a letter is hanging around the dog’s neck. She opens the letter but could not read it and throws it in the garbage. End of the 4th episode.