Gift - summary

Gift is a boy. He is St.Martin’s best sprinter. He’s tall and super fast. They call him gudji-gudji like a spider that runs like lightening. The girl that the text is about didn’t even know that Gift knew her. But two weeks ago he invited her to his family house. The girl asked her mom if she could go and her mom told her yes straight away. The girl lives in Africa but she is the only white person in her village but people don’t care if she is white or black. She dosen’t sleep in her mom and dad’s house. She is sleeping in the school dormitory with the other students. She thinks that Gift is really handsome and she can’t understand why he picked her and not Grace because she is more beautiful. When she finally arrives to the village it turns out that she isn’t going to share room with Gift but instead she had to share room with his three little sisters. They are really annoying and they are making jokes about her skin color. But finally she gets to spend some time with him. They walks around in the village and Gift wants to introduce her to some people. He introduces her to a girl, Sunni. And he tells her that this is his future bride. The english girl thought that she was Gifts girlfriend but she was wrong. When she comes back to St.Martins she asks Grace if she knew something about the whole bride thing. Grace said yes. She is trying to get over him but it’s very hard for her. But sometime she will get over him and her life will turn back to normal.