Memories
This is a hot and humid area with little to no precipitation that Mawi and his family crossed to get to the refugee camp.
What is the desert?
These are the years that Mawi's family lives in the refugee camp.
What is 1980 to 1983?
This is the name of the Christian U.S. based organization that locates refugees.
What is World Relief?
What is a motel room?
This is where the angels descend from and what they do.
What is from the mountains to mingle with people?
What is Adi Wahla, Ethiopia?
This is the food our village survives off of.
What are goat milk, eggs, and UN rations?
Names of two of my family members
Who are Haileab, Tsege, Mulu, Tewolde, Mehret?
This is why we moved to another motel in the suburbs.
What is we could not find a sponsor?
OR
What is we did not have a sponsor?
This is what angels are disguised as.
What are the lowliest of beetles?
OR
What are beggars, vagrants, and misfits?
This is what Maw saw and could never forget.
What is the woman's feet or bloody soles?
Brutal beatings take place from the hands of these people.
What are kindergarten teachers?
She comes from Sudan and our trip to America is delayed by one year.
Who is Mulu?
This disease makes my dad sick.
What is Malaria?
This is what the homeless angel gives us as a gift.
What is a rainbow-colored address book?
This is the border Mawi and his family crossed.
What is the Sudanese Border?
This is why the one-armed math teacher beats Mawi.
What is Mawi had more right answers than his son.
This is where we made our way to before arriving in Amerikha.
What is Gedariff?
This is the kind of pain that Beth sees in my parents.
What is the pain of people torn away from loved ones?
OR
What is the pain of losing culture, place in society?
This is why we are cooped up in the house.
What is too scared to go out or for our parents to take us?
Awad is home for the helpless. Mawi says they must beware of whom?
Who are fishermen?
This is why we fight in the camps.
What is to survive?
Believe or not, these are the things you will miss.
What are bullies and cruel math teachers?
These are two of the first angels we meet. They bring us two gifts from home.
What are two habesha women and injera bread and sebhi stew?
This is why my parents trusted Charlene.
What is she looked like an angel?