Kamal's Story

I'm Kamal Adli

This story is about Kamal Adli, a 12 years old boy. He is a good student and respects their parents. He is the eldest of five siblings. Each day, he will bring food cooked by his mother to school. Since before, his mother has always prepared food for him to eat during break. One day, Kamal left his food at home. So, he decided went to the canteen to buy food. Before this, he never felt excited buy the food there. 

After trying the food once, he started to like it. He sees the food being sold very tasty, smell nice, mouth start to watering and attractive. Since then,, every time he went to the canteen the smell of aroma of the food, he began to feel hungry and swallowed his saliva. After that, Kamal often went to school without bringing the food that his mother had prepared. He feels that the foods in the canteen are more appetizing and yummy. Furthermore, he notices that the aunty who cook the food at the canteen is very skillful and cook very well compared to his mother. Every time he heard the sound of the canteen or regardless the sound of the cooking t the canteen he will started to salivate. 

But days are not always bright, as one day, Kamal got food poisoning as a result of eating food prepared from the canteen. He was detained in the hospital for several days. He suffered food poisoning not only once, but quite a few times. Since then, he was determined not to eat in the canteen again. Every time he walks in the canteen, he has no desire to buy food from there anymore. When his friends invite him to go anywhere, he will bring food cooked by his mother even when they went to a restaurant.  As for him, all food that is not prepared by his mother is not safe to eat. Kamal was afraid having to suffer food poisoning again.

After completion of his primary school, he went to secondary school near his house. In the new school, the canteen is very large that there are many food choices and much more interesting than in the primary school. So, at first Kamal was tempted to try the food there, even though he brought food from home like he always do before. He suddenly feels the urge to try food prepared from the canteen. His stomach began growling and his mouth swallowing saliva. Kamal started to not carry food from home and buy food from the canteen again.

But one day, Kamal’s classmate name Amir suffered from food poisoning. Kamal began to remember the events on how he suffered food poisoning before. Since then, he completely stopped to buy food from the canteen after that even though he did not know the cause of the food poisoning suffered by his friend. He also will feel scared when every time he sees the aunty who cook at the canteen or outside the canteen. It kind of traumatic. In addition, every time he sees the canteen, he also will feel scared and after that he never going to the canteen or any restaurant.

BY: SET