Summary: Remi as she meets her mother again after so many years, feels as if she doesn't know her mother anymore. She blames her mother for not caring about her all those years as she was apart from them in England. Aunty Madge tells her that her mother couldn't do anything and that all those years she felt as if a part of her was missing. Soon Remi starts to remember her mother and they hug. Her father later decides to change her to a new school which he feels is better. Remi's siblings also go to England and they all attend Dove House School. They go on holiday break. Now they have a new family to stay with, the Braithwaite's. They go to church and have a great time. They soo go back to school. Remi has a best friend there, Phoebe. Remi then gets invited to go to Germany with some friends. Herr Schofbeck is her host there in Germany. She delt with many cultural problems there and she also began to think more about boys-if they liked her or not. The boys would mostly fall for her friends. The ones that did fall for her were creepy and old. She gets back from Germany and she tells Phoebe everything. They go to a school dance and no one asks them to dance. Two boys are soon forced to dance with them. As the boy dances with Remi, he speaks about another girl as she passes by saying that she is really beautiful. Then he asks Remi if she is considered attractive in her own country. Remi doesn't feel as beautiful as other girls. Soon, her family and friends from Lagos come. She feels beautiful again and she even gets a boyfriend, Akin. They go to parties and she realises as she dances that there is nothing more beautiful than a Yoruba Girl Dancing.
Quote: " ' I say,' he said, 'are you considered attractive in your own country?' " (Bedford 174).
Reaction: This is when Remi dances with the boy and he asks her that rude question. You can't just ask someone that question. He is ignorant.
Monday, December 20, 2010
Monday, December 13, 2010
Yoruba Girl Dancing (pgs.82-131)
Summary:As days passed Remi continued to have to sleep in the dormitory alone, even though she persisted in asking Matron, the woman who watched over her, if she could sleep with her. Soon girls in all shapes and sizes began to arrive to the school. They crowded the place and made it noisy, each looking for their dormitorys. Matron brought Remi to hers and introduced her to her new roomates. There was Jessica, who would be in charge of Remi, Anita, and 2 other new girls who broke down in tears from being far away from family. As Jessica tried showing Remi around, Anita started a romour that the black skin color on Remi would rub off on the lighter skin girls if they touched her. The girls tried not touching her. Anita was really jealous, though, of Jessica spending all this time with Remi, so that's why she started the romour. Remi tried so hard to fit in the school, explaining her culture, where Anita made it harder. She began to make up stories about her life in Africa in order to keep them interesting. Remi finally stood up for herself and confronted Anita. Remi got bad reports in school which her dad who wrote to her, wasn't to happy about it.
Years passed in England and Remi was getting along with everyone now, even Anita. Soon summer came and in the letters she got from her father, she awaited a response saying she was going to Africa, but istead her father said she would be staying there. For the holidays, she would be staying with Aunty Betty. Gerald, Bettys son and also Remi's crush, was whom Remi played games with. They went on a vacation to a resort and had a great time that summer. Soon, Remi went back to school and made a promise to herself that she would get good reports in school. Then, she hears that her father is coming to England to go see her in school. He gets there and Remi doesn't recognize him, but soon she remembers.
Quote:" 'The black comes off, ' she declared in a voice of doom"( Bedford 86).
Reaction: This is when Anita spreads the romour of black rubbing off. That was very rude to say because it is just skin.
Years passed in England and Remi was getting along with everyone now, even Anita. Soon summer came and in the letters she got from her father, she awaited a response saying she was going to Africa, but istead her father said she would be staying there. For the holidays, she would be staying with Aunty Betty. Gerald, Bettys son and also Remi's crush, was whom Remi played games with. They went on a vacation to a resort and had a great time that summer. Soon, Remi went back to school and made a promise to herself that she would get good reports in school. Then, she hears that her father is coming to England to go see her in school. He gets there and Remi doesn't recognize him, but soon she remembers.
Quote:" 'The black comes off, ' she declared in a voice of doom"( Bedford 86).
Reaction: This is when Anita spreads the romour of black rubbing off. That was very rude to say because it is just skin.
Monday, December 6, 2010
Yoruba Girl Dancing (pgs 49-81)
Summary: As Remi gets up from bed, she realizes she is on the ship, in the middle of nowhere. She then races from the cabin to the railings of the ship to hang head down, with her feet wrapped around them. In her nightgown she feels the wind against her skin and is lost for a while. She then feels someone tugging on her. Remi swings upright to a girl her size, thinking it is a child just like her. The girl tells her it is a shame she is out there in her nightgown and grabs her with a hurtful grip by the arm and takes her to Bigmama in the cabin. There she finds out that the girl she thought was a child was really an adult. Remi and the woman, Miss Smith, did not like eachother.
Bigmama needs a lot of rest and so they came up with a way to supervise Remi. Miss Smith is going to teach Remi what she is going to learn in boarding school, to have a head start. Remi thinks Miss Smith is very crazy. One day as they start the teaching, Remi fakes that she is sick and Smith brings her back to the cabin to rest. Remi wants to then explore what the ship has because she figures it has much more. She goes downstairs to the third deck where she knows Miss Smith won't be. She meets the guy that runs the ship, Mr Lowther, and he shows her around. Soon the ship arrives to its destination. Remi meets all the family members that are there, but she is sad her mother and father are not there. She misses everyone back in Lagos. Later, she meets with Aunt Grace who is there studying in college. Aunt Grace takes her to her new school, but they soon find out that they have gone a week early. Remi stays anyway and doesnt like it.
Quote: " 'Don't go,' I wailed.." (Bedford 79).
Reaction: This is when Aunt Grace has to leave her at the school to go back to her college. Remi doesn't want her to leave and feels as if she is getting pulled away from everyone, while she is only 6 years old. That is very sad because she is very young and she has to be far away from her family.
Bigmama needs a lot of rest and so they came up with a way to supervise Remi. Miss Smith is going to teach Remi what she is going to learn in boarding school, to have a head start. Remi thinks Miss Smith is very crazy. One day as they start the teaching, Remi fakes that she is sick and Smith brings her back to the cabin to rest. Remi wants to then explore what the ship has because she figures it has much more. She goes downstairs to the third deck where she knows Miss Smith won't be. She meets the guy that runs the ship, Mr Lowther, and he shows her around. Soon the ship arrives to its destination. Remi meets all the family members that are there, but she is sad her mother and father are not there. She misses everyone back in Lagos. Later, she meets with Aunt Grace who is there studying in college. Aunt Grace takes her to her new school, but they soon find out that they have gone a week early. Remi stays anyway and doesnt like it.
Quote: " 'Don't go,' I wailed.." (Bedford 79).
Reaction: This is when Aunt Grace has to leave her at the school to go back to her college. Remi doesn't want her to leave and feels as if she is getting pulled away from everyone, while she is only 6 years old. That is very sad because she is very young and she has to be far away from her family.
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