[British and American Entertainment] Sonnets to Olivia

~~~~~ If people do not eat well, they cannot think well, rest well, and love well. ~~~~~ Tom looked out the plane window, and now the plane is flying over the Great Rift Valley.This scar on the earth can also be clearly seen in space.As the plane landed, he saw the endless grassland again. The rainy season was about to enter, and animals could still be seen running among the green and yellow grass.

After landing, a heat wave swept over quickly.Although it is already winter in Africa, the temperature is still very high.He unbuttoned the second button of his shirt and couldn't help wiping his forehead.

The airport is built in the capital of this country, and you have to transfer to the place where Olivia is.And the plane that flew this time was African Local Airlines. The plane was old and worn out, and the passengers were not only human, but also various animals.

Although the smell in the cabin was a bit unpleasant, Tom was very happy.He chatted with the locals in French for a while, and then he started grabbing the armrest of his seat.

By the time the plane landed again, he had reached his limit.Unable to control his discipline, he was the first to rush out of the cabin, and then vomited it out.

"Son, just get used to it." The aunt sitting next to him kindly patted him on the back. It was the first time for this child to come to Africa to make this kind of indigenous aircraft.

Tom went to the very original restroom to wash his face, and then pulled himself together and walked out of the airport made of earthen walls.

Olivia had been waiting outside for a long time, and she drove a jeep over by herself without letting Grant take it.

"Wow, Ollie, you look like an animal expert now." The moment Tom saw Olivia, those terrible memories of flying in the air were immediately erased.He reached out and hugged her.

"You look exactly like a tourist now." Olivia didn't dress like the adventurer in the movie today. She was still wearing a denim shirt with a pair of linen shorts.Tom also wore a shirt and linen trousers, but he was all white.

She lingered in Tom's arms for a moment before letting him go.

Tom also kept looking down at her, and he noticed that she had grown a little taller, probably 173 by now.However, girls will basically not grow taller after the age of 20, so the height difference of about 15cm should be fixed.

"Let's go, there's still a long way to go." Olivia jumped into the jeep directly, and she took out a hat and threw it directly to Tom, "You'd better put on more sunscreen yourself. It’s not just about getting tanned here.”

Tom must have been prepared before he came, but he still took the hat and sunscreen that Olivia gave him, "Why aren't you tanned?"

"We basically have classes in the camp during the day, and we only go for a walk on the grassland in the evening. And we don't need to do the physical work here, and basically contract it to the locals." Olivia actually still I wish I had a little tan, so I would look more toned.

Tom held the hat with one hand and the handle with the other.He found that Olivia's driving skills were very bad, even worse than the road conditions.The road was bumpy, and I almost hit the cactus on the side several times, and there were small animals that suddenly jumped out from time to time, which was much more exciting than the flight just now.But he held back and didn't spit it out.

"We're here!" Olivia rubbed her hands, her palms were covered with sweat.Not because of nervousness, but because it was too hot.

"Finally." Tom heaved a sigh of relief. He got out of the car and looked at the vast grassland in front of him.

On his left is Olivia's camp, with a dozen green tents and two houses under construction.On the right is the endless grassland, and just about 50 meters away, there is a male lion lying down.

"Ollie..., Olivia." Startled, Tom walked slowly to Olivia's side, "There is a lion over there."

"This is the East African savannah, of course there are lions." Olivia smiled, patted Tom on the arm, and pulled him to the camp, "Don't be afraid, it's full now, it won't It eats people. And humans are not on its diet, so beef is delicious."

"I hope that humans are not on the diet of the great white shark." Tom swallowed, and raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead.

"Of course it's gone, maybe you can't digest it after eating it." Olivia laughed loudly, "Oh, Tom, aren't you a victim of that movie?"

"Basically everyone who is afraid of sharks is a victim of that movie." Tom shrugged, making no effort to hide his vulnerability.

"Don't worry, the great white shark won't eat people. But maybe it will bite you out of curiosity." Olivia frightened Tom, she thought his worry was really unnecessary, now the great white shark's The number is decreasing rapidly, and the probability of encountering them in the sea is almost the same as encountering an air crash.

"Fortunately, this is the grassland, not the sea." Tom followed Olivia to the two dirt houses, and he found that the workers were filling the Coke bottles with soil, completely unaware of the meaning.

"Put wet soil into a bottle, and then use soil and this bottle to build walls. It is environmentally friendly, has zero emissions, is warm in winter and cool in summer, and is also bulletproof and shockproof." Olivia explained to Tom that although the people here are poor, But creativity is powerful.

"It's amazing." Tom squatted down, and began to play with mud. "We must help, or the two houses will not be repaired at night."

"Tom, we don't live here." Olivia pulled Tom up, she didn't want his beautiful hands to be covered with mud.

"The sleeping tent?" Tom turned his head to look at the tent on the other side. He felt that the tent was very fragile, and it would break if the lion scratched it.

"No, sleep on a tree." Olivia raised her finger and pointed.

Tom looked up, and there was a very strange tree not far away.The trunk is thick, the branches are short and branched.There is a small wooden house on the trunk, with a pointed top and a cylindrical shape.

When Tom walked under the tree, he realized that the tree was actually very tall, but the tree was dead, and its trunk was directly chiseled into steps, so he could climb up to the tree house directly.

Olivia went up first and opened the door.Tom climbed in, because the door was only 1.4 meters high, and he would bump his head while squatting.

Olivia also had to climb in, but there was a height of two meters in the room. After all, Grant himself was also very tall. "How about it, is it better than a tent?"

"Of course." Tom nodded. He found that the cabin was square and had windows on all sides.At one end stood a mattress, already made up.There are also gauze curtains hanging on the windows, and the white curtains are blown away by the wind, dancing around the windows.

"Don't open this curtain, or the mosquitoes will come in." Olivia warned, one of their team got dengue fever after being bitten by a mosquito, and is now being sent to South Africa for treatment.

"I have been vaccinated." Tom wanted to see the scenery outside the window. He felt that the night here must be beautiful.

"Vaccines are useless for a while, and people's physiques are different, and the mosquitoes here are super vicious." Olivia fixed the gauze again, took out the mosquito coils, and lit it, "First, get rid of the mosquitoes here." Kill them all, or you won't be able to sleep at night. Now I will take you to dinner, and I promise you will like it."

"What is this?" Tom became interested in the mosquito coil in Olivia's hand.

"Oh, this is for smoking mosquitoes. Some local Chinese gave it to me. It works, but the smell is a bit strong. So we don't want to be here when it is lit." Olivia crawled out again, her stomach A little hungry, thinking Tom must be too.

After driving to the market, Olivia found the shop selling mosquito nets again.

"Olivia!" A girl came out, she hugged Olivia, and then hugged Tom again, "Wow, you are all so tall, why don't I change my name to Alexander."

Tom gave her a hug too, and he saw that the girl was a Chinese, with very pretty black hair.But what did that Alexander mean, he couldn't understand.

"This is Song, her cooking skills are super good." Olivia is not boasting, Song Ye's cooking skills can be a chef.The two walked through the storefront and into the backyard.

After walking to the back, Tom realized that there is a different world here. There is actually a lotus pond in this courtyard. Although it is not big, the lotus is blooming very well.

But this is not a restaurant after all, so Song put it in a fresh-keeping box after it was ready.After Olivia paid the money and returned to the camp, her stomach was really growling.

The two returned to the tree house, and Olivia took a small table, and the two could only kneel and eat on the ground.

Tom looked down at the contents of the box. He could only recognize a scrambled egg with tomato. Everything else was a little strange to him.

"This is potato shreds fried with vinegar, this is fish-flavored pork shreds, and this soup is cucumber preserved eggs. But you definitely don't want to eat preserved eggs." Olivia introduced to Tom, her first When I went to Song Ye's shop once, I thought it was on fire, but in fact it was just her cooking.Song Ye's parents were both engineers in the construction aid team, so she simply came here to sell mosquito nets to earn some extra money.Although the water and soil here are fertile, the locals are not good at agriculture, so the food materials are grown by their aid team, and even the pigs are raised by themselves.

Tom is naturally more interested in meat, he picked up the chopsticks, picked up a pinch of shredded pork and put it in his mouth.

Olivia saw that he was proficient with chopsticks, so she changed the fork silently to avoid embarrassment.

"It's so spicy! And it doesn't taste like fish!" Tom covered his mouth and cried out. He thought this dish would be sweet and sour fish.

"Welcome to wild Africa." Olivia handed Tom a glass of water, but there was no Coke available here.

Tom took a sip and swallowed the spit of "we eat Chinese food" together.

The author has something to say:

The former French teacher went to Africa with the construction aid team. He said that at that time they had a small vegetable garden and raised a few pigs, and their life was super nourishing.