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.
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