WEBVTT 00:00:11.978 --> 00:00:13.978 My name is Sarah. Mil. It's, my name is spelled Sarah. My last name is 00:00:19.399 --> 00:00:27.399 Spelt Ma Nyiel. 00:00:33.149 --> 00:00:40.417 I was born 1990 December 16th in Porto. We, I was, we were, I was born in 00:00:40.450 --> 00:00:48.450 a private hospital that was run by a Catholic church. 00:00:56.179 --> 00:01:03.116 Yes. My mom and my dad are from the same town and they were, they were 00:01:03.149 --> 00:01:07.467 born there and they lived there most of their lives until they moved out 00:01:07.500 --> 00:01:15.147 of the south. Um They were both born in Europe and my mom's name is 00:01:15.180 --> 00:01:23.180 Rebecca Eduard Hailey. And my father's name is Inna Ka Miguel. 00:01:33.489 --> 00:01:41.489 We belong to the DCA tribe. 00:01:46.939 --> 00:01:54.025 Um My parents moved to Khartoum that's in the north um way before we were 00:01:54.058 --> 00:01:57.426 born and that's where they started their lives. My father, I went to 00:01:57.459 --> 00:02:02.385 college, um got his degree in accounting and he had a job and we lived 00:02:02.418 --> 00:02:09.245 there most of our lives and we had this house where we all lived in my 00:02:09.278 --> 00:02:15.416 grandmother and my aunts, my cousin's huge house and that's where I was 00:02:15.449 --> 00:02:23.449 until I was about 77 years old. And we moved to Egypt from there 00:02:31.649 --> 00:02:38.725 a typical day before school started, we would, um, we would wake up early 00:02:38.758 --> 00:02:46.758 , always, we weren't allowed to sleep in. Um, and we would wake up, we 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:51.975 would get ready. We would clean up. We would always sweep the backyard and 00:02:52.008 --> 00:02:55.936 the house and everywhere. And during the summertime, we would sleep 00:02:55.969 --> 00:03:01.225 outside in the yard, we had high brick walls that secured our house. So no 00:03:01.258 --> 00:03:06.505 one can really see um, what's going on inside and we would bring the beds 00:03:06.538 --> 00:03:11.525 out and put it outside and that's where we can sleep. And then in the 00:03:11.558 --> 00:03:16.816 morning we'd have to take all those back inside and, and then we would 00:03:16.849 --> 00:03:24.646 have tea in the morning with bread. Always in peanut butter, always. 00:03:24.679 --> 00:03:30.446 And then, um, we would, 00:03:30.479 --> 00:03:36.186 each child gets a chance to go to the market that, that day with your aunt 00:03:36.219 --> 00:03:41.106 or your older cousin or your um, grandmother. And then you, at the end of 00:03:41.139 --> 00:03:45.366 the shopping trip, you would get him a retreat and then you would come 00:03:45.399 --> 00:03:49.487 back and then it would be a turn to like help around the house with the 00:03:49.520 --> 00:03:57.520 stuff in the kitchen and stuff 00:04:01.240 --> 00:04:04.856 different. Yeah. Biotic. We would wake up in the morning and then we would 00:04:04.889 --> 00:04:10.186 have to get some breakfast and then we just tea again and we would have to 00:04:10.219 --> 00:04:16.156 get ready and go take the bus and then we go because we went to school in 00:04:16.189 --> 00:04:21.555 this private um, church. So it would take us a long time. To get to the 00:04:21.588 --> 00:04:26.515 school. So it's, it's a long trip and we would have to go walk to the bus 00:04:26.548 --> 00:04:31.526 stop and then we take the bus and then we would go to school. And then 00:04:31.559 --> 00:04:37.377 after school we would walk to my mom's job because her job was right next 00:04:37.410 --> 00:04:41.726 to my school. And I, I would stay with her, me and my younger sister would 00:04:41.759 --> 00:04:49.759 stay there until she was done around six. And then we would go home and my 00:04:49.879 --> 00:04:54.106 older siblings would just straight go home and then we would stay with my 00:04:54.139 --> 00:05:02.139 mom. 00:05:05.178 --> 00:05:09.416 Yes, we would do the same class, but we were separated. When we were 00:05:09.449 --> 00:05:12.947 sitting, the guys would, the boys would sit in one section and the girls 00:05:12.980 --> 00:05:20.980 would sit in one section. 00:05:24.129 --> 00:05:28.447 Um 00:05:28.480 --> 00:05:34.395 Yes, but we didn't do that a lot in our household. Girls would usually 00:05:34.428 --> 00:05:42.428 work in the kitchen and guys would be outside somewhere. But um after we 00:05:42.720 --> 00:05:50.236 moved around so much and is it, my father was out of the picture. So we 00:05:50.269 --> 00:05:54.776 all worked together, my brothers did dishes 00:05:54.809 --> 00:06:02.536 and they helped cook before I learned how to cook. Um and they just sell 00:06:02.569 --> 00:06:10.569 around the house. 00:06:14.829 --> 00:06:22.606 Um We had lunch at noon and then we had dinner about four o'clock in the 00:06:22.639 --> 00:06:29.476 evening. The m the 00:06:29.509 --> 00:06:37.509 every time every evening when we had dinner the evening, the announcer, 00:06:37.509 --> 00:06:40.705 the Muslim movement, 00:06:40.738 --> 00:06:45.086 Jama the mosque. There we go. You to call the mosque in English but it's 00:06:45.119 --> 00:06:51.846 Jama America. They, it goes off, the guy would do the, the call for the 00:06:51.879 --> 00:06:57.555 prayer. And that's when everybody ate dinner and then before bed we had a 00:06:57.588 --> 00:07:01.526 cup of milk and sometimes when my dad was there, he would bring this 00:07:01.559 --> 00:07:06.536 pastry. It's called palava here, but we called it pasta. It's very sweet. 00:07:06.569 --> 00:07:10.486 I don't know if any of you had it but you should try it. It's really 00:07:10.519 --> 00:07:18.519 delicious. And we had that before bed every night. 00:07:25.829 --> 00:07:32.387 She was a teacher. She taught these group of women how to sew. She, um, 00:07:32.420 --> 00:07:36.805 crocheted, she made dresses and decorations and stuff and she would also 00:07:36.838 --> 00:07:39.145 sell those. 00:07:39.178 --> 00:07:47.178 Ok. 00:07:49.350 --> 00:07:53.825 No, we were, like I said, we were part two. So we didn't really, there, 00:07:53.858 --> 00:07:59.697 there was no war. I mean, there is discrimination, there is, uh, tensions 00:07:59.730 --> 00:08:05.007 between ethnicities and such, but there wasn't an actual war. So I never 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:09.106 really experienced it. And then we moved to Cairo. There wasn't a war 00:08:09.139 --> 00:08:17.139 there either. 00:08:20.439 --> 00:08:25.226 Um, I heard, 00:08:25.259 --> 00:08:27.786 um, 00:08:27.819 --> 00:08:30.575 I heard how, 00:08:30.608 --> 00:08:37.846 because the older generation hate the, um, Arabs and they would talk about 00:08:37.879 --> 00:08:45.304 how they, they kill Children and they have no hearts, they burn down our 00:08:45.337 --> 00:08:50.804 houses and they would say things like that whenever we try to play with 00:08:50.837 --> 00:08:54.985 the Arab kids or hang out with them. Like my grandmother, she would say 00:08:55.018 --> 00:08:58.934 bitter things about them. She would say stay away from them. They'll come 00:08:58.967 --> 00:09:06.967 here and kill us at night. Stuff like that. 00:09:07.639 --> 00:09:09.639 So.