daph and onku

We went to apply for daph’s social security number sometime back. The process didn’t take much time and Chantel was fine overall. Then the lady asked daph to come inside the office and left us both outside. C started crying and and tried to follow daph. But the officer closed the door behind Daph and so C could not get it. She came running to me and started crying loudly. There were others in the waiting room and so I told C the thing that came to my mind first: “Amma has gone to onku”. C looked at me and was satisfied with my answer and started eating the fruits and chocolates and cakes and kadalaimuttai that were brought by daph. After 5 mins, C told me that “Amma onku poitu, varuvanga”. Daph came back after 5 mins. C ran towards her, and asked her loudly, “Amma onnukku poitiya?” We were happy we have been teaching C only Tamil and not English!