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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Junior

Junior is a 19 year old Gabonese male living in Libreville with his parents and brother. His family owns what they would call a house, but to use living in Bronxville might consider the size of 3 garages combined. They live easy not having to worry about finances due to a steady paycheck supplied by his father’s employer. His family dresses in modern clothes but African and Western. Western fashions include Hawk, Hollister, and American Eagle. Do not mistake there being these companies present in the country, the clothes are brought over by giving missionaries or sold in stores who buy the clothes from places like Salvation Army. Junior owns a television and a Playstation with numerous compatible games. Due to the fact that these are rare and very valuable items along with several other objects in their house they have constructed a fortress around their house. A 7ft tall 1ft thick cement wall surrounds there house, unfortunately since the average teenage boy is tall they need to add more to make sure others don’t simply jump over. In the construction they added broken glass and strands of barbed wire to the top making it a dangerous surface. One cannot climb over the wall without serious injury. This is not uncommon to the housing of the locals.

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