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ENDLESSNESS 無盡

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Pupils in one of the schools there in the mountains boardering Kenya and Tanzania are preparing the "nutritious lunch" for their fellow students. This kind of lunch is made by maize and beans, perhaps the only solid food a pupil can get to eat per day. If the schools are lucky, they are subsidized by certain NGOs for this kind of food program which does not provide all schools suffering from droughts in the region. Besides, some younger ones need to go home after half a day in the school: this means the little ones go home without taking any food, for the food cooked is very limited.  此位居肯亞及坦尚尼亞交界地帶的學生們,正為他們的同儕準備著「營養午餐」。這種由黃色的玉米和咖啡色的豆子所做成的食物,裝在一個鋼杯大小的容器中,就是「營養午餐」所有的內涵。如果學校夠幸運--因為有太多這樣的原住民學校座落於山中--能夠得到一些慈善組織的提供,而有這樣的「營養午餐」可以吃的話,學生也必須達到高年級以上,才有這樣的「營養午餐」能吃,因為中低年級小朋友們只有半天課程,中午下課就必須再走一段長長的路回家。 這種「營養午餐」約略是學生們在一天當中,可以吃到的,真正的固態食物…… I tried to eat just a spoonful of this food and I almost threw up, for inside the maize and beans, there are sands, little stones and some other stuff.  我...