On my street

On my street there’s a toy shop. There’s a toy there called “speaker man”, which I recognize from the drawings I see the kids do on the backs of their worksheets in my class.

Some of the boys are really into speaker man. I thought about buying myself a speaker man toy, since I know they’d go bananas when they saw it. I remember being bananas about pokemon when I was that age, but pokemon is better than speaker man.

There’s also a banh cuon place on my street which I sometimes go to. The aunty is very welcoming but the uncle is reserved. I think that at first he didn’t feel very comfortable with me. But the aunty asked a lot of questions and I talked to her, and I think that the old man changed his mind about me a little bit.

People have different values, and it’s not always clear what shapes them.

Q. Can you trust most people?
Q. How important is obedience in children?