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 very good. Yeah flour and sugar.

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Was it the last camp you were at
before you came to us. Um I was had and

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then you know I stayed there with the
camp from 1993 and then 1994

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and then now we have a baby a that
came there and interview people. So

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they joined volunteer agency. Uh they
came over there and they're looking

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for people and then they interview us
you know at first I I didn't make it

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for the first interview in the first
portion they came they came in 1994

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and then I remained there and then
later the person who took the guru the

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camp we leave the camp from our side
peter Yoko he came and then another

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person his name is Jordan man pain, he
become a camp leader too and then

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he left. So after they left then I'll
become the camp leader and then you

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get to come and then you got the car,
I became the camp leader and then I

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was the camp leader for like I think
five months and then later I came in

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1995. Were you scared to come? Where
did you know you wanted to? I really

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wanted to come because I heard from
the people who came here first you

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know they sent out money you know um
at that time we do not have like a

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Western union and send the money to.
So what we what we have with the

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american express. You know they put
their can I print that you see the

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angle you know on the envelope. You
know you have the money there you know

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so they send the american empress and
they send out the money there and

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they say you guys are very good have
education you want, you can leave

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this the way that the way online you
want. We were like hopeless in the

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room. You can because when we lived
there we do not have a hope for

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education. We do not have a hope for
where we what are we gonna be after

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that. And then in 1995

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didn't work out then I was able to
come here. I always ate that day. I

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will never forget. It was almost 8
1995 when I landed here in a small town

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of Washington Minnesota of Washington
minutes, washing wasn't Washington

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wasn't Yeah, it wasn't Worthington
wasn't it wasn't it was it was august

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so it wasn't cold at all at that time
it was barely a little heart going

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down. No, it was august 1995 when I
came, how did you feel about the

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airplane ride? Where is that nerve At
what did you think? The first thing.

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It was, it was very funny because it
was my first time to come through

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the airplane and on my way first we
were we were taking from from a smart

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tom in Nairobi by a transportation by
texas and then we went to the we

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went to the airport and when we went
to the airport you know this is the

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first time I ever go to the airplane
because I never I never sit in the

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airplane you know so what I did was I
was just looking trying to figure

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out what this is all about it you know
I see the airplane but I I never

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knew they are tied to the terminal the
way the way we walk into it.

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I

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thought you know like you gotta walk
into it just like you get into the

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car you know but it was different. We
were in the airplane in the airport

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and then we sit there and then later
they call us like they boarded us and

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then they tell us okay you can walk
this way and then we walk we find

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ourselves in the airplane and there
there's no there's no room you know

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like there's no open talk, we just
walk inside the terminal and then we

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get in there and then I'm like we are
the airplane now huh?

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You want to step into it. Uh and then
we after after the gate is closed

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there now the airplane pull out back
and then we I sat in the window and

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then I was looking very carefully
always always trying to see what is

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going to go in on here and then the
airplane took us you know run on the

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ground and then take us right there up
there and then everybody like it

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was like wait it was too scared and
then I don't want to scared I was

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scared inside. But in another way I
was I was excited because I wanted to

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go to the United States. You know I
wanted to go there and then 10 cards

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all the way we went all the way Death
Planet. I came in with a gun fair,

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you know like the Arab Air uh yeah the
United Arab Emirates uh there with

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the airplane I too. And then we went
to from Nairobi we went to

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Aba Daba. Okay. Yeah. And then from
there coming from there to new york

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city okay. Yeah. And then when we get,
when we get the J. F. J. F. K. Uh

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it was early in the morning you know
got the confusing thing with you know

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we live that at eight a.m. In the
morning in Nairobi and then we went to

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Abadan me and then when we get there
with the two a.m. Uh huh He made a to

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A. And then from two a.m. Now we flew
all the way crossing the crossing

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the world and then it was the morning
somewhere in the middle of nowhere.

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It was the morning, you know people
work us up in the in the airplane and

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say oh you gotta go write your teeth,
you know you get to eat breakfast

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like what the morning over A

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and there was three at the end and we
get here at eight a.m. In the

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morning. Oh my goodness. Yeah, so the
world is changing. You know, you

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wouldn't even know where, where you go
in and where you come from. Uh yeah

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, it was a different experience. What
do you think of new york city? You

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can just see it or was it? I've got to
see the new york city in the

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morning, but we were very tired at
that time. So when we came out we

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thought the America with like a
different world, like, like really, really

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different, you know, so when we came
in new york it looks like Nairobi oh

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to us, you know the building a little
bit different because new Yorkers

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are new buildings but the people who
walk on the street in the same way in

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Nairobi because the Nairobi, you can
see a crowd of people crossing the

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world, that's how we see it. And most
of the people look around the road

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in new york, you know, they very much
like african americans, you know, so

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when we came there were like it is
America

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back in neighborhood why it's too many
black people here, we thought we

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got to see white people here.

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So now it's different. Uh

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yeah, so in the media in the evening
then we were distribute, you know

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everyone was taken to their
destination state. So I was taken with one of

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the drive, we came together at the
newer guy. We came all the way to

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Minnesota. And then we learned in a
twin city, you know Minnesota

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International Airport like uh
Minneapolis in the international airport. So

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we thought because I read when I read
our ticket to say your discretion in

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Minnesota, but I didn't pay attention
to the small town of Washington

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Minnesota. You know, then we were
sitting right there after we get out of

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the airplane. We were sitting waiting.
And at the terminal we did not go

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out there because we thought people
would come and and pick us up. So we

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sit there, we sit there for like two
hours. All right. So there's more

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shutter airplane waiting for all the
outside from the terminal one waiting

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for us. This is what I realized after
after I knew everything. You know?

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So they're waiting for us outside
there. They knew they have two people

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that need to go to a small village. So
at that time mhm. You're scared. So

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at that time there was one of the
Somalia. Uh huh. So Monica, you work at

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the airport and then he keeps coming
around, you pass us and then you come

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and see us again. You know uhh

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And then when you came the third time
or fourth time,

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the people at the terminal knew that
you know, we the two people that's

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sitting here. We didn't know where we
were, what you were doing. So he

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called that person and uh talk to them
and then they call us and say where

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are you from? So yeah we are. We just
came from africa. Yeah yeah. Where?

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Oh yeah I'm so money. Yeah. So we feel
like, oh I just talked to him you

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know he's like your whole world,
right? You come all the way over here

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because he's someone from Somali.
Yeah. And then he's like I think man I

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didn't know I was I would say so. I
would I would ever meet somebody from

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from africa you know because this is
different. Yeah we have too many, too

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many, too many people here and to
money. Two minutes. Uh Sudanese too. You

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know. Yeah yeah okay. Give me your
ticket and I've given my uh yes. And

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after I gave him my ticket he said
okay now look you this is not your

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airplane. So you're going all the way
to terminal one. You go to kind of

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shorter so it's shorter, will take you
to your destination. Your

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destination is more time Call
Washington men right here. Okay. Okay. Okay.

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So now in to God he put us in a small
car. Yeah it took us to the

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terminal one. How did you like your
small town? Did you like the small

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town was it? When I when I learned the
airplane, the two guards, we were

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the only two people and the two and
the pilot and the copilot. We were

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like four people waiting

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and that one you had to walk into
right that's when I had to walk into the

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plant was affecting the way

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it just run on the ground and then it
took off and then it was like

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shocking you know because I don't like
we didn't really like it. Yeah so

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up to that we land there and then we
can organize people because we have a

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relative, the person who sponsored me
with actually they're waiting for me.

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 You know two parts

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he was here, they were actually
waiting for me. So they pick up a relative

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relative from Sudan from Sudan. Yeah
yeah and now the pick us up there and

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you know the funny thing was when they
came we didn't know a person can

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drive a car, okay because in africa
you know see my story back then you

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know like we do not have a car, no
running water. No it's street nothing.

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You know we never affect anybody from
us to drive their own car. So when

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they pick us up from the airport they
say okay yeah you can take you with

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me and then this person can go with,
I'm like who's who's driving us? We

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drive it. Hey you have a car. He said
man you two you will have a car in

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just a few months hey is that right
now the life is completely different.

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You know this is where the lives. And
so they took us home and then now

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uh after 28 days I started working at
the meat factory, you know and uh I

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started serving the money, you know,
this is how I settled on, you know,

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And then did you have a car in two
months and in november 2000 and

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november 1995. This is when I wore my
first car and you get your driver's

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license, I get my apartment and then I
was driving, this is this is the

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first time too. I had a big accident.
I read my car that was very excited

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, you know? Where did you record? How
did you wrecked how I reckon with?

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Okay, after 28 days. Then I started
working with august when I came and

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then in in september I started working
and then I said money, a little

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money and then october

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I have a little bit more. And then I
remember I bought my first guy with

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the Koran victoria. Ford. Crown
victorias cannotforget