House of Children

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Ropa...

OK Charity?

OK as for food I didn't, um...

Uh...

I don't know, if I have any.

Cos I love food.

All kinds of food, I love food, I love eating.

So I don't think I have favourite...

Like, "This is my favourite."

But I've got this, I think...

Apple, will do for me.

Yeah.

An apple?

-An apple. -

Sorry I ate mine.

Ah it's fine.

And then for, for the movies, I just,

watch any movie, as long as it's not horror, or...

Action, I don't like guns and...

What do you call it?

Zombies! I don't like those movies, they...

They frighten me a lot.

My favourite film is called,

"The Perfect Guy."

Yah, sure!

Why is it your favourite?

It's my fav... it's just because maybe I watched it once and I never, like,

had a chance to get a copy of it.

Yeah.

And then I just got interested in it cos it's...

It teaches about who to have trust on and...

I learned that you shouldn't, er,

have, er... like, divided attention, you should have to love one at the same,

one at a time, then...

If you have to make choices, alternative, you have to choose the best.

Not the "better."

Yeah.

So...

Who is your "Perfect Guy," how would you...?

Oh! Not yet, not yet, I'm still like, I'm still young for that.

But soon, when I'm 23, I will have one, then I'll know it...

I will know how to choose, like...

What's the plan?

The plan is to meet a guy, who's hunky...

Light, tall, erm...

W-Who got sense of humour, who got this...

Funny character, who's always happy.

Wow...

Yeah.

That's my wish, to meet "The One," yeah.

Light in complexion, more like coloured.

Jesus...

OK...

You have a... big list there...

Why is the light skin... like the light complexion important?

I love light guys, because I got this thing for the skin, you know the light ones, it's...

Something... just to mix the race, I think.

Yeah, nothing much.

Is there anything you'd change about yourself?

Maybe lifestyle.

Lifestyle.

Yeah.

Like, change...

Country.

Change...

My diet.

Even change my hair colour.

Yeah.

My friends...

Wow, everyone is my friend.

Everyone.

What do you think's a waste of time?

Bathing.

I think it is a waste of time... spending a lot of hours in the bathroom.

Yeah.

I find it boring.

So what makes you happy?

Food.

You love food...

I'm, whoosh...

110% good at maths, I love mathematics.

I love my maths, I love I love maths.

I love maths more than food.

Yeah, I see.

I've got this attitude, like, I say,

I don't live for, um...

"I don't live off the past, I live for the future."

So it's... the past is the past.

And I'm focusing on the future.

Do you think it's important to reflect on the past?

No.

It's different cos when you're... when I was young,

I would just think of...

I didn't, I wasn't that much focused about...

Who I want to be.

Cos I would change, like, "Today, I wanna be a doctor, tomorrow I'll be a..."

But for now because I'm studying accounts...

That's why I'm like focused for, on the future, cos...

Of the past, I didn't think of... whom like...

Anything about my career and stuff, yeah.

So I just think, it doesn't ever flash like for my future, so I just,

just put it behind my back, and then, let go of the past.

In 5 years to come?

I'll be studying law.

In 10 years?

I will be a lawyer.

In 20 years?

I don't know.

In 40 years?

I will be dead.

I don't want to grow old.

I don't think old people have happiness.

They are always suffering, like, some of them will be blind.

I don't want to reach that stage.

I don't want to give people problems.

I would love to...

To stand for children's rights.

To make sure that...

Children are being treated well.

And they are... being heard.

I'm loyal.

Prove it.

Ah, like...

When someone shout at me, I don't shout back.

I just keep quiet.

It's good to avoid violence.

Do you think sometimes you need to confront people?

I don't have that courage.

I just feel it's something that I don't have to do.

It's not part of me.

But if you're a lawyer, if you wanna be a lawyer...

You're gonna have to, you know...

Present arguments all the time.

Being against people...

That's what I'm trying to learn, but...

Maybe, that would be reasonable.

It happened that...

One day I was on duty, I had to sweep the yard.

So, I did my duty.

Then Dorcas came.

And she said I was not the one who was supposed to sweep the yard.

I was supposed to do the dishes, so...

I was supposed to go... after sweeping the yard,

I was supposed to go and do the dishes again.

Then I refused.

I was angry, she started shouting at me.

She was just talking in harsh voicing, that,

"Be it you like it or not you have to do those dishes!"

Yet she had done nothing since morning.

"You have to do it, it's your duty..."

And I was silent.

And what did you do, just walk away?

I went into my room...

And I cried.

Because of... chores?

Because I couldn't answer her back.

She's the one who came to me and apologized.

I just said, "It's OK, it happens, that's life."

So she realized she was supposed to do the dishes?

Do you think... she's lazy?

Yeah she is!

I wanna have the courage...

To answer back when someone shouts at me.

-What would you say? -But I can't....

I wanna have the courage...

To let them know how I feel.

It's just because...

I'm not confident.

And just because...

I'm afraid.

Of what?

Of people.

Of people?

I don't have that courage.

You don't have it now but...

Of course, I will, soon...

Like...

Right now...

I'm learning how to...

Like, I'll be talking to my wardrobe...

Seeing it as a person.

Yeah, like...

I'll be imagining...

Standing in front of thousands and thousands of people, talking to them.

That really makes me happy.

I was once dreamed about...

Being a lawyer...

But...

The country that I was, I don't even know it.

It was really a beautiful country.

With many people, people there were very friendly...

I just liked it.

-Why was it beautiful? -There were...

Tall buildings... many of the buildings were very tall.

And...

It seems to be...

A very rich country.

I would love to stay in Zimbabwe.