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An orphaned child
Oh! Oh! Oh!
Mother where are we?
My mind turned East, West, South and North
I could not believe
I looked all round; I could not get a sponsor
Oh! Oh! Oh!
Mother where is my father?
I cannot find my father
Who will pay my school fees?
Oh! Oh! Oh!
Mother why is there no free education for refugees?
Shall we ever go back to our country?
Oh! Oh! Oh!
Mother I wish I was in my country
I could continue with my education up to university
May god bring peace in our country Sudan?
Though I am an orphan
I would enjoy my sweet homeland
Name: Amoti Lillian, 15
School: Can-Rom Primary School, Primary 6
This poem comes from Refugee Children’s Voices: Thoughts and Art by Children Studying in UNHCR Settlements in Uganda, a booklet published by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in 2004 that can be downloaded from the Additional Resources in the Teachers’ Corner section of UNHCR’s website.
The UNHCR has just issued this video summarising the sobering 2011 UNHCR Global Trends Report…
This year the UNHCR invites us to show our support for the millions of refugees around the world by taking a pledge to spread the word of their plight – because “1 family torn apart by war is too many.”
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My friend Doodaddy gives me endless grief about hiring a painting company that included a free “color consultant” — and I just know he’s going to give me even more grief knowing that after weeks and weeks of flaking on us, the color consultant ultimately led us to the prettiest shade of living room lavender you will ever see.
The thing is, we wanted gray.
Not light purple.
Gray.
So now we are trying to select a gray and we need your help. Let’s call the one on the far left A — with B, C, and D following from there. Which one gets your vote?
Also, I have finally managed to capture Emmeline dancing. She usually stops when I pull out the camera. Here, she is obviously doing a jig.
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And thanks for your kind words in response to my previous pity party about time and blogging. Words and photos resume Monday.
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“Daddy Daddy?”
“You’re awake!”
“Daddy?”
“Yes, Emme?”
“Daddy go new home?”
“Yes.”
“Mommy go new home?”
“Yes.”
“Emme stay old home?”
“Does Emme want to stay in the old home?”
“Emme go new home.”
“Of course. Hey, Emme?”
“Hmm.”
“What did you dream about?”
“Hmm.”
“Emme? What were you just dreaming about?”
“Mommy daddy go new home.”
“Yes?”
“Emme stay old home.”
“Oh kid, we will never leave you.”
MacArthur BART, Oakland
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Things I never thought I’d say:
“We don’t rub mayonnaise on our bodies.”
“Potties aren’t hats.”
Things I never thought anyone would say to me:
“Oooh, daddy walking like a big girl now!”
“Diaper cream goes on lady business.”
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A Sean Penn movie about Harvey Milk is shooting in the city right now, and they’ve revamped the Castro Theatre to make it look like it did in the 1970s. We stopped by to see it a few days ago and I couldn’t miss sharing the beauty. It. looks. awesome. (And yes, that is the illicit bus booty in her hands.)
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“Emmeline, what’s a pig say?”
“Oink, oink.”
“What’s a cow say?”
“Moooo!”
“What’s the moon say?”
“Catch you ’round the way, yo.”
We did not teach her that. She’s just naturally cooler than us.
By: Rebecca,
on 12/20/2007
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To celebrate the holidays we asked some of our favorite people in publishing what their favorite book was. Let us know in the comments what your favorite book is and be sure to check back throughout the week for more “favorites”.
Erin Cox, Book Publishing Director for The New Yorker, avid reader and lover of books.
Wow, to pick just one is actually quite hard. So, I’m going to actually list a few. Some old, some new.
Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins is a book that I’ve long mentioned I would like to read, but never actually had. One stormy afternoon this fall, I finished a book and thought, okay, now is the time. I started reading and didn’t look up until the room was so dark I couldn’t see anything. I spent the next two evenings ditching plans and reading into the night. I had to see what happened to Fos and Opal and Flash, the main characters of the book, who live in Tennessee post-World War I and are all enchanted by light in all its many forms. (more…)
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