The children
Mr. UNICEF
“When I talk to children on my journeys for UNICEF, I think back to my own school days in Westminster. At that time, I had to cut my finger nails, comb the hair, and dress properly because some bore came to our school to hold a speech. After a few sentences already, we all – properly dressed – became very tired. Now I go to Kenya, Thailand or Tibet and see well-dressed and clean children in their churchgoing outfit and with hair ribbons. Instead of learning some sentences in the corresponding language of the country by heart, I decided to turn into a dog.
As I stood before all those children from Tibet, I barked like a dog instead of speaking to them. At the very first moment, all children were shocked. Then they realized that I was too much dressed to really be a dog and they started to smile and bark back at me. After a while, they got more confident, and finally ten of them crawled on my back. As I could no longer stand that much bodily closeness I turned into a cat with a buckled back. They understood at once what this cat’s arched back was supposed to mean and let go of me.”
