Thirty Girls
“What has been true no longer is.
WE SOON LEARNED things. You would always be tired from walking and your feet always sore. You would always be hungry. You did not forget your life before, but it was like a movie you saw, not believing you were really there in a bed with sheets or eating chicken from a plate or putting on your purple skirt for Mass.
The rebels told us in any case our families did not want us anymore. They would teach us to be in Kony’s family.
What they taught me was to hide—my ...fear and myself. Sometimes it was like dragging a dead animal behind me. Sometimes I felt a thick pad of cotton come over my head.
How were our days? We searched for food. We gathered vine leaves and cooked them. We ate cassava leaves, simsim, boiled sorghum. We carried the radio, carried water and were always thirsty. We cut grasses for thatched roofs and collected firewood, dug for potatoes and planted maize beans. Our blouses were filthy. We washed clothes. We would walk from place to place and find other groups of rebels in deserted villages or sleeping in dry riverbeds.MoreLess
WE SOON LEARNED things. You would always be tired from walking and your feet always sore. You would always be hungry. You did not forget your life before, but it was like a movie you saw, not believing you were really there in a bed with sheets or eating chicken from a plate or putting on your purple skirt for Mass.
The rebels told us in any case our families did not want us anymore. They would teach us to be in Kony’s family.
What they taught me was to hide—my ...fear and myself. Sometimes it was like dragging a dead animal behind me. Sometimes I felt a thick pad of cotton come over my head.
How were our days? We searched for food. We gathered vine leaves and cooked them. We ate cassava leaves, simsim, boiled sorghum. We carried the radio, carried water and were always thirsty. We cut grasses for thatched roofs and collected firewood, dug for potatoes and planted maize beans. Our blouses were filthy. We washed clothes. We would walk from place to place and find other groups of rebels in deserted villages or sleeping in dry riverbeds.MoreLess
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