7 & 8 response Asante

I had this friend when I was an 11 turning into a 12. His name is Jonas. I remember talking to him before the ceremony asking him what he wanted to get as his assignment. He said he didn't know. He asked me what I wanted to get and I said a teacher of a food preparer. I was the 13th child  that year and got a great round of applause. A couple people later something peculiar happened, they did not call person number 19 to the stage! That person happened to be Jonas. So they kept going to person number 20 until all the new 12s were called, except for Jonas. Later he was named the new Giver. I did not know what that meant but then we left.