Childhood Activities
Muring talks about the lives of children today compared with when she was young in the Ba Kelalan dialect of Lun Bawang. The recording was made in Buduk Nur on 1st November 2017.
when we were young
when we didn't have phones and internet in our village
when we were young
we went to play in the farms
we went to collect wild fruit
play traditional games
but, yes, we went to fish in the river
go and collect snails
not like children today
they play on the internet
telephone
so they don't have much time to play in the forest
to gather wild vegetables
as we used to do
so they don't talk much to people
they don't really know how to talk to other people
like they are antisocial
yeah
we had a lot of fun as children
we knew how to make our own food
when our mothers and fathers went to the farm
we went back
and we made our own dishes
and cooked rice
for us to eat
yes