Home

Home makes me feel like my hometown, Ogun state in Nigeria in west Africa. Sometimes I barely saw my mom because she would often go to Canada or America. My family went to Canada first before I went so, I had to stay with my Grandparent for a few months and I really miss them it really hurts not to be with your family for a while. I really loved my mom’s soup it part of my traditional food in Nigeria, it called [egusi] it’s a of seed that call melon. First you shred the seed then you boil it and add an oil called [palm oil] then it boils for 45mins I think, after it done you could eat it with rice or [swallow]. Swallow is a different type of powder that you put in boiling water then you stir until it like dough, and you eat it with soup. We even find the powder at the African store. The day that my mom was leaving for Canada with my older sister was the hardest day of my life, she woke up my sister by 5:AM and told her that they had to go. But I had heard my mom, so I woke up and went to the living room and ask them where they were going my mom just didn’t answer. So, when I went to the bathroom, they left, then I ran outside, and I saw that the car was moving already I went inside then cried for 30mins and my maid told me that they were going to the airport to Canada, and I just cried I was disappointed in my mom. Then a few months later my dad and my little sister was going to Canada, and I had to stay with my grandparents they weren’t my biological grandparents, but they were close to my family. It really hurts not to be with your family for a while.