Day 3

My father lives here, so this is the _________________ of the family,” says his son.

I meet new people, so I get some experience of the world—even though I’ve never ........................outside of Kenya.”

Tens of thousands of alleyways have been _________________ in the past few years.

Boniface and his wife Pauline live in Ongata Rongai, a small ____________ near the capital, Nairobi.

My brothers and their families ________________ most weekends. We are very close.”

They are sad that their daughter has _______________ alone because she has no brothers or sisters.

But for now, the Qus keep the old ways. The grandfather, Qu Huanjun, 84 and frail, is the ____________ of the family.

They have two ........................................: Joyce, who is in her third year of school, and 16-month-old Sharon.

Their home is a two-bedroom apartment, one of 20 in a single-storey ..................

Each morning he leaves home at 4:30 am in his white Toyota—................................ windshield, 200,000 miles on the speedometer—and is ........................by 10 pm.

Qu and Liu are proud of their daughter. Chen is bright and ______________. She wants to study archeology.

And their houses are said to be next for ____________.

“Our daughter is __________,” says Liu. “I always wanted to have two children.”

“It’s a hard job, but I ___________ it,” he says.

“College will cost _________________ of money,” says her father. “So we try to live frugally and save for our daughter.”

And when the old communities go, the traditional family _____________, in which children take care of their elderly parents, goes, too.

On a good day he __________ two clients. In a typical month, he _______________ about $215.

Boniface ..................as a taxi driver at the International Airport in Nairobi.