Recording 5

Speaker 1: Er, about 3 years ago I was on a, a tour sort of round Africa and er we, we’d already been to several, er, countries, and um this was the fifth country that we visited; and it soon became very clear that Nigerians have a, a great fondness for making speeches at almost er the drop of a hat; um, you could be just going for a cup of tea with somebody, and somebody would have to make a speech about how nice it was to have you for a cup of tea and then somebody else would get it and say how nice it was for them to have made the speech to welcome you and give you a cup of tea and – then somebody would get up and say that somebody else would be making a speech later – um – it’s very, um, it’s a great love of sort of um performance and um sort of making a great formality on any, anything how, however casual it was supposed to be, there would be this feeling that it was a very formal event and this is the way it, it is…

Speaker 2: I’m from Swansea in South Wales, and a couple of years ago I went on a trip, um, around the Greek islands and, er, we ended up on a tiny island called Siphnos; and, um, we stayed in a little village room which was on the back of, a gentleman called Angelos, on the back of his house; and, er, we found out that they were very hospitable and in Greece they have a tradition not only on having, um, a birthday but also a saint’s day; and, er, in fact it was the daughter of the house’s saint’s day while we were there; and, um, what they did was invite us into, er, their house, and they make a special cake of, er, honey, I think is in it, and almonds, and um also, er, the wife of Angelos, um, she actually produces her own, sort of distils her own wine, um, and er we had a few glasses of this and the home-made cake. So there you not only have, as I say, birthdays but also saints’ days as well which they celebrate on completely different…

Speaker 3:Well my first visit to Britain was when I was fifteen and it was with, with a school exchange, I was staying with a family for three weeks, and, well I used to go to school with this girl, she was my penfriend in these days, and, um, well we took a double-decker bus every day to go to school and I was very surprised when I, on the first day, when I saw these girls wearing school uniforms; well at, at school everything was more or less normal and like in my country, but the very funny thing was that they stayed at the school over lunch and had all these sandwiches and crisps with different flavours, vinegar and salt, and things like that, and this white floppy bread, it was really, it was an experience for me because in my country you can, you go home for lunch, and you have cooked lunch because you don’t have school in, every, every afternoon, so you can just go home and be, be with your mum who has cooked a fine, very nice lunch for you; so this was something, something very different from what I was used to …

WHEN IN ROME…

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