Yaw Balloon does not visit you for nothing. He often combines his social abilities with begging. He likes to receive candy, a piece of your bread or a sip of your coke. Yaw Balloon also sometimes likes to steal your food, (if you don't pay attention), just as he likes taking all kinds of your other belongings. So keep your eye on your food and things when Yaw Balloon is around! Yaw Balloon likes to hang out with adults. He has little contact with the other children. He wanders by himself over the compound if he can escape school or other routines that are boring to him. Between 11 and 12 in the morning he functions as the errand boy of whoever needs something from town. He walks with Kwaku, backpack on his back, to the postoffice, the market and the stores and when he returns home to you with your letter or loaf of bread he is as proud as can be. Yaw Balloon likes to be helpful, neat and clean. He understands a lot and in general listens very well (except when he has to give back 'stolen goods'). He owes his remarkable name 'balloon' to the fact that he always has a cute round belly and because of his love for balloons.