https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6 By Abigail Pesta en-us 2022-02-02 20:20:29 UTC 2022-04-01 15:19:27 UTC hello@padlet.com malilelo000 https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2034092354 Uwiringiyimana, Sandra, and Abigail Pesta. How Dare the Sun Rise : Memoirs of a War Child. Katherine Tegen Books, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2017.]]> 2022-02-07 20:56:39 UTC https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2034092354 malilelo000 https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2117785873 Sandra and her family stayed in tents at a refugee camp that was controlled by the United Nations. One summer evening, the camp had been under attack. Sandra thought her life was over when a gun was held to her head. Just before this, she had witnessed her mother's and little sister's death from a fire gun. 

Quote 3 
"I felt the metal barrel on my temple. I waited for the blast. In that moment, I thought it was all over. 'Goodbye, life,' I said." (11) ]]> 2022-03-28 18:26:00 UTC https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2117785873 malilelo000 https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2118243483  Sandra was born in the mountains located in the Democratic Republic of Congo.]]> 2022-03-29 00:49:07 UTC https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2118243483 malilelo000 https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2118279675 Sandra started school in Kindergarten, she loved it and was considered the smart kid. She went to a private school in Uvira. 

Quote 1
"I was the smart kid, a little nerd. I adored my school uniform and never wanted to take it off." (37)]]> 2022-03-29 01:13:18 UTC https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2118279675 malilelo000 https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2118300959 Sandra and her family were informed by their uncles that their tribe was under threat. Sandra had to move schools, and stay with family friends for a year in  Burundi. Sandra became best friends with the kids that stayed in the house. ]]> 2022-03-29 01:25:59 UTC https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2118300959 malilelo000 https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2120254110 After a year Sandra and her family moved back home and was able to reconnect with her friends from school. ]]> 2022-03-29 22:00:43 UTC https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2120254110 malilelo000 https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2120258407 Sandra's first memory of being afraid was when there was a big flood. She had to run as fast as she could uphill away from rising water. 

Quote 2
"I ran so fast, it felt like my feet didn't touch the ground." (54) ]]> 2022-03-29 22:06:17 UTC https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2120258407 malilelo000 https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2120268498 Tension toward Sandra's tribe escalated causing them to flee. As they were driving they had been set up and were stopped by a mob of Congolese people who shook their van and stole everything they had. They were able to escape to the border of Congolese to a refugee camp.]]> 2022-03-29 22:19:42 UTC https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2120268498 malilelo000 https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2121956186 After the attack , just before they resettle in the U.S. Sandra wakes in the home of a relative. She does not remember how she got there. 

Quote 5
"I don't remember how I got there. I was like a zombie." (88)]]> 2022-03-30 17:18:02 UTC https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2121956186 malilelo000 https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2121960601 Sandra was able to escape and she found her mother still alive but her sister passed away. There were other remaining family members that survived too, which Sandra found. 

Quote 4
"She was standing by herself, wrapped in a sheet, and very alone. she looked as if her world had ended. I had never seen my mom look like that, not even my uncle Rumenge had died years earlier." (77) ]]> 2022-03-30 17:20:22 UTC https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2121960601 malilelo000 https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2122000776 Sandra started to have trouble sleeping after the attack. She would wake up in the middle of the night uncontrollably shaking and would wake the house from crying. Her family would try and make her feel better but she did not feel safe.

Quote 6
"My family thought I was going to die. They would cry, and I would cry. They tried to reassure me that I was safe. But I never felt safe. " (90) 
  ]]> 2022-03-30 17:41:55 UTC https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2122000776 malilelo000 https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2122009240 Sandras parents thought it would help make her feel better if they escape from their hovel and visit a cousin that lives a few hours away. She ended up visiting them and their family welcomed her. ]]> 2022-03-30 17:45:54 UTC https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2122009240 malilelo000 https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2122024118 Sandra was told to stay while her cousin Ganza goes out to the market. Sandra did not understand why Ganza's father wanted her to stay. As soon as Ganza left Sandra was sexually assaulted by Ganza's father. Sandra tried telling her when she came back but she did not believe her. Sandra felt embarrassed and ashamed.  ]]> 2022-03-30 17:52:20 UTC https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2122024118 malilelo000 https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2122035197 After a long while of not being able to go to school, Sandra was finally able to go back. She was excited and eager. 

Quote 7
"I need to go to school. I miss school" (105) ]]> 2022-03-30 17:58:09 UTC https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2122035197 malilelo000 https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2122040010 Sandra and her family had signed up for a resettlement program for people who survived the massacre at the camp. They had to get interviewed and answer personal questions. They finally got the news that their application had been accepted to have a new opportunity in America. ]]> 2022-03-30 18:00:41 UTC https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2122040010 malilelo000 https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2122045042 Sandra and her family had to wait for their departure date. She was staying with family in Burundi, not going to school, and helping babysit kids in the family until they got to move. ]]> 2022-03-30 18:03:09 UTC https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2122045042 malilelo000 https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2122200740 Finally the time came where Sandra and her family had to pack their suitcases to move to America , to a city in New York. It was Sandra's first time being on a plane.

Quote 8
"The airplane was huge, the biggest thing I had ever been inside of that was not a house. As my family boarded the enormous vessel, I had many burning questions for my parents." (114) ]]> 2022-03-30 19:40:23 UTC https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2122200740 malilelo000 https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2122201584 After a couple weeks in New York, Sandra was sent to start middle school. Sandra did not speak English and was anxious. Her first day did not go well because it was different then what she already had. 

Quote 9
"My first day of school was the worst. I didn't know what to wear because I had always worn uniforms to school back home" (130)]]> 2022-03-30 19:40:58 UTC https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2122201584 malilelo000 https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2122540038 Sandra was sitting alone at lunch and a boy named Abdul approached her. He was able to speak to her in French. They had an instant friendship. ]]> 2022-03-31 01:03:00 UTC https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2122540038 malilelo000 https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2122546018 One afternoon, Sandra and her brother took a kayak out to their pastors lake house. Sandra had went to far and could not control the kayak. The water was to deep for her to swim back so she started crying. Their pastor sent people out in a speedboat to take her back to shore. ]]> 2022-03-31 01:07:26 UTC https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2122546018 malilelo000 https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2122553982 8 years after the resettlement, Sandra got an invitation to the White House Correspondents' Dinner. She also was able to meet the President Obama and the First lady.  

Quote 10
"I turned to her and gushed, 'Mrs. Oboma, you're such an amazing woman. Thank you for standing up for women." (261) ]]> 2022-03-31 01:13:14 UTC https://padlet.com/malilelo000/6mzu3d5jf9ls0je6/wish/2122553982