GFC

Last Thursday I went to GFC where they serve 'Good Fried Chicken'. If I'm honest personally speaking I couldn't quite work out what the attraction of the place was when I first came across it.When we told the children at the orphanage that we were taking them to GFC they were very excited indeed as were the staff.

GFC is the local equivalent to KFC so you might appreciate why the children were excited. If however, I told you that about 90% of the children had never been there before and the other 10% were 'lucky' enough to have been taken there once a couple of years ago I hope it will put into perspective exactly how much of treat this was for them. Given how fortunate we are, with everything that we have I can fully appreciate that it might be difficult struggle to imagine such excitement for something that most of us wouldn't give a second thought to and so I will do my best to try and relay it to you...

When we told the children that they were being taken to GFC one of the boys who goes by the name of Oliver came over to me and quietly asked 'Mina, can I have pizza?' my response was 'yes of course you can, you can have whatever you want to Oliver' to which he replied 'but pizza is so expensive, but I've never had it before, I would really like to try it'. From Oliver's body language it was very clear that he felt uncomfortable asking me this and I can't even begin to describe how it made me feel that a young boy was so conscientious and embarrassed even to ask for something that children in our society wouldn't give any thought to, let alone thinking about the cost of it.  If anything you might expect these children to make the most of this menu and pretty much ask for as much as they could get away with, however, for the children at the orphanage this could not be further from the truth and in fact the children behaved in the most opposite way.

In an attempt to be organised we asked the children to pre-order their meals and all of them with the excepton of Oliver ordered a chicken leg and chicken wing, when asked if they would like anything else they said that it would be enough for them because it was 'so expensive'. When I was told about this I made it clear that the children must have whatever they wanted and regardless of their order they were each to be given fries and a drink followed by a dessert to ensure they ate a proper meal. I would say that referring to them as 'considerate children' would be an understatement.

You will be pleased to know that the children had a fun evening and thoroughly enjoyed their Good Fried Chicken, fries, drink and a local milky rice pudding. Unfortunately Oliver did not enjoy the pizza and couldn't understand why it was so popular and so we got him some fried seafood rice! We also ordered pizza for the other children so they could taste it ...I can confirm that the chicken was the  favourite.