About Me

My name is Byadunia which means “everything in the world” in Swahili. I was born in Tanzania on July 1, 1993 . My mom and dad were born in Congo and my older brother too. This story is about me, maybe I will say a little about my family too. The first things I want to talk about is living in Tanzania. When I was six years old we lived in a city called Tabora. It was a wonderful place. The things I like about Tabora are the friends and other things. I will give a few things not all about Tabora. In my family in Tabora we had one dog called Poster and the dog was a very good dog we used to hunt for deer and other animals. But it was too hard for us to find enough animals for dinner. In my family in the city we grew tobacco and corn fields and other things so we can find money for living. The best thing one year my father got money for the field of tobacco and the field of corn the field of corn was for the family and we gave some away and we ate some. I have five brothers including me and I have four sisters one of them is in Tanzania. One of the children was born in Congo and four of us were born in Tanzania and two of them were born in Lugufu that is in Tanzania. One day we were playing with our friends and we heard the police coming; they were searching for people who not citizens. My dad and mom were not born in Tanzania so were not the citizens in Tanzania but the four children born in Tanzania were citizens. But my mom and my dad did not want to leave us in Tanzania and go to the camp because my mom and dad love us so much that is why. The police made us moved to Lungufu that was hard time

The second thing I want to talk about is life in the camp. The first time we got there, there was nobody living there except the people of the camp. They took us and put us in a forest, the good thing was many people in my family and my father knew how to build a house. First thing we build a tent, in the morning we made bricks. We have to go get water in the little river and dig for dirt and mix it with water and make a brick. It took three months to finish building the brick and now we have to build a house. When the bricks dry we start building a house. One day it was night and the rain came that is when we finished building a house, but we did not put a roof on it and we already put down the tent so rain start we getting wet and I hate getting wet by rain. We have to get up and hide on the thing that we used to build a tent. We finished putting a roof on the house now we have a good house. But still we were immigrants so people start move from Congo to the camp. Let me tell you little about how did we get food to eat, first we got food they gave us we have to go get it and bring home. One week is not too much food to eat on one week is little food and we have to farm some like potatoes and corn, but there was not too much food even if you plant some of you own. My mom and dad filled out an application to come to the U.S.A it was very hard to come here, many people fill out the application to come into the U.S.A too. So if you have a chance you come, but if you do not have chance you stay just like I said that happened to us we did not have a chance. But we came after many friends and others came.

I want to talk about getting food a little, it is a long way from my house to the place they give us food so we have to walk from home to the place, if it was raining many people fell down, why? Because it is muddy and wet so if you walk without looking you are going to fall down. That is the problem that we have, if I remember I fell a few times they just say oh, oh ,ho ,ho ,ho, that is the life of the camp I was living in. Another bad thing is if you go out of the camp and the police get you, you get in a big trouble, even they can try put you in jail, but my brothers and me sometimes we go out and we find a path that cars cannot pass on, why we go out of the camp? We go there looking for food because there was people living there and even my brothers friends lived there out of the camp. After a few years living in the camp my mom gave birth to one child. And after few years again my mom gave birth to second baby and, after few years we move to the United States.