Story and Photo | That Boy Spent his Afternoon to Help His Mom

Come on, fire fire

Look Mom, the fire is burn on

Keep focus

Fun work, I was surrounded by girls ;)

Today, coming home from work, today I enjoy the afternoon in Ule Lheu area, an area on the seafront of Banda Aceh City. This place is not far from the city center, every afternoon this place is always crowded by visitors to enjoy the natural beauty around and sunset.

There are many food and beverage hawkers in this place.

Today I am enjoying a glass of young coconut water. Across the street, there are many sellers of roasted corn. There is one where the grilled corn seller is catching my attention. The seller is a boy.

When I noticed, he seemed busy alone to turn the fire from the coconut shell. Every now and then, a woman comes to her, I suspect it is her mother. And I suspect, the boy was given the task by his mother to light a fire from a coconut shell.

Charcoal from coconut shell is used to roast the roasted corn.

The boy spent his afternoon to help his family sell corn roast. I suspect so, and I'm sure I'm right.

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Photo and Text @akkadia

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