The Rubbish Dump

This story, about a young boy who would much rather be at the local airport watching planes land and take off than in school, was a little bit gross. The young boy watches the workers come and go from the planes with their wheelbarrows full of discarded food and garbage from the planes. The childs fascination with the planes as they take off and land is easy to understand considering he lives in a part of the world with very little connection to everyday technology. He is in wondermeant of how a machine can fly in the air. The gross part was when the young boy reveals that the workers are actually spending time foraging for food in the garbage pit (after it has been discussed that the barf bags have also been tossed in the pit ew!) Although this again just shows what kind of impoverished area these people must live in. Also, it was very interesting that the workers thought of the planes as nothing more than a vehicle for the "fat white man" to be transported into their country in. Kind of a sign of the changing times I suppose.