Roy:Hello, I’m Roy and I’m 11. I live in Ivory Coast – Côte d’Ivoire. I live with my father – mon père, my mother – ma mère, my cousin – ma cousine, my big sister – ma grande sœur, my sister – ma sœur and my two dogs, Lupita and Alex.
We live in a house in Abidjan, which is actually on its own mini island of the Ébrié Lagoon in the city of Abidjan. Abidjan is a city of West Africa, where we speak French.
I like playing outside. We can play on the trampoline and we can play soccer in the garden.
These are the hammocks, where I like to rest.
On Saturdays, we eat a traditional African meal. Here there’s alloco, which is banane plantain, fried. African food is very spicy and flavourful. This is a spice and this is the fried fish.
Here in Africa, we eat with our hands. I prefer to eat with my hands, because you can mix the spices with the attieke.
Now I am coding an app. I need to know how to code, because in engineering, we need to know how to code for the job.
On Saturday afternoons, I go to soccer. Here I am going to do training with my friends and a match afterwards. The nationalteam’s name is the Elephants – les Éléphants.
On Sundays, we usually go to the lagoon. There is a piece of land and then the sea. I like surfing, because you can be in the water while doing sports and it’s like the wave that is pushing you.
I like living in Ivory Coast, because you are so near to the sea and when you are near to the sea, you can go surfing, go swimming and you are surrounded by water.