When I studied at MonctonU, I lived in Lefebvre dorm and the special needs room was just next door to mine. The guy living there had a prosthetic hand and I never saw his other arm. His other sleeve was always in the wind, empty. When I talked to him I saw burn scars around his face and he told me he came from Burundi, a country near Rwanda and Congo.
I never dared to ask him what happened to his arms and face. I’m not sure I wanted to know. But I wanted to really figure out what happened in Rwanda. All of a sudden, something I heard on the news as an 8-year-old stopped being fiction and became part of reality. I thruly realized that we live on the same planet as those guys.
Corosive Frog, you reminded me of when I first came in NYC in 1978… I was waited on in some deli on the Upper West Side by a Jewish guy in his 50’s who had a series of numbers tattooed on the inside of his right arm.
We are on the same planet, but sometimes we are so many miles apart.
Also now recall the term “Belgium Congo”…
alife over 15 years ago
Like the vulture touch:D
MaryWorth Premium Member over 15 years ago
Are they going or coming back from the mall?
CorosiveFrog Premium Member over 15 years ago
I heard that the guys making trouble in Congo are the same guys that were responsible for the genocide in Rwanda.
HUMPHRIES over 15 years ago
CF,You’re right on target.
MaryWorth Premium Member over 15 years ago
Were the Brits to blame for spreading bigotry in the Congo as they did in Rwanda? I barely can keep abreast of plain ol’ American history,,,
CorosiveFrog Premium Member over 15 years ago
Congo wasn’t colonized by England but by Belgium.
When I studied at MonctonU, I lived in Lefebvre dorm and the special needs room was just next door to mine. The guy living there had a prosthetic hand and I never saw his other arm. His other sleeve was always in the wind, empty. When I talked to him I saw burn scars around his face and he told me he came from Burundi, a country near Rwanda and Congo. I never dared to ask him what happened to his arms and face. I’m not sure I wanted to know. But I wanted to really figure out what happened in Rwanda. All of a sudden, something I heard on the news as an 8-year-old stopped being fiction and became part of reality. I thruly realized that we live on the same planet as those guys.
MaryWorth Premium Member over 15 years ago
Corosive Frog, you reminded me of when I first came in NYC in 1978… I was waited on in some deli on the Upper West Side by a Jewish guy in his 50’s who had a series of numbers tattooed on the inside of his right arm. We are on the same planet, but sometimes we are so many miles apart. Also now recall the term “Belgium Congo”…