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My daily life in Karen refugee camp
My daily life in Karen refugee camp is a simple life because I don’t have any base to stand by my feet. It is boring. I don’t have the new hope and general knowledge interesting in life.
I get up early in the morning and pray to God to give me strength for a day. Starting my chore, I wash my face, carry the water and cook for breakfast. And I take a bath in the bath room, change my clothes. Then I take breakfast and take a rest for a moment. As the time is near, I start to go to school. Our school starts at 9 and finishes at 4. On weekend, Saturday I visit my friends and talk together why we have to become refugees and live in the barbed camp like the animals in the zoo that longing for their original habitations but they can do nothing with it. And it is also like the prisoners who did the very big and extremely crimes until they have to remain in the large prison in all the days of their lives. I don’t understand this happening. Of course, as my instinct sends me, the prison belongs to the guilty men not the nation. But I don’t know what guilt did our parents or we the children do. I have nothing to do to get some pocket money to spend it for some drink or cookie when I want to try it. But thank God, we were provided with foods, educations, health cares and many thing else.
I know that my daily life in Karen refugee camp is to do the best in my schooling so that one day I can help my beloved people anyway certainly.
Saw Eh Gay Moo
ESP Mae La Camp
18 March 2007
My daily life in Karen refugee camp is easy, especially no work no money. Therefore I do not have money to buy meat or vegetable for my daily food. My life in the camp is very poor but I am not sad in my life to stay in the camp because I have a happy God to help me and provide me my daily food .
I thank God for giving me many friends to help me and give me many thing to eat, oil, bean, sugar, pepper, fish paste, salt and etc… I am a student in Karen refugee camp so every day I go to school and learn education to grow up and to help me in my life. On Saturday and Sunday I stay home and help my mother in cooking food for meal and sometimes I carry water. In my free time I use to go to the library, I read some short stories, and on Sunday I go to church to praise the Lord. But sometimes when I have any holiday I walk with my friends and go to the cinema. We watch the surprising dramas. Sometimes when I meet with my friends we talk a bout the situation in Karen refugee camp and we are wondering about the oppression of our people and we talk about the malicious operations of Burmese Government do to our people.
Naw Thay Lay Paw
ESP Mae La Camp
16 March 2007
First of all I want to explain some of my daily life in the Karen refugee camp. I live in the capital of Karen refugee camp, called Mae La camp. I’m a student, and I study at E.S.P school, as I live in the camp, I have no job to do day by day. I just help my parents after school. But not at all time.
On the other hand, I get the refugee rations: The things that I get in the camp are rice, yellow beans, sugar, fish paste, oil, peppers, and cool etc…
I don’t have enough money to buy meats very often. Sometimes I eat fish but very little. My family likes vegetables rather than meat, so I eat quiet a lot of vegetables.
I have a small garden beside my house so I grow some of the vegetable, called (roselle, lady fingers, gourd, pumpkin, tomato etc...). And sometimes we can buy some fruits in the market. There are many kind of fruits sold in the camp. Banana is my favorite fruit. But they are very expensive for me to buy them .So I grow some banana trees in the garden. So that I don’t need to buy them in the market. As we live in the camp we have got a very good opportunity to go to school so usually go to school almost every day in school time. The school starts on Monday to Friday. But I’m very happy, because I ‘m a youngster and I have to study as I am a student. I wonder it is amazing, out side the camp, some of the Karen people they want to study but, they don’t have enough opportunity but I have, so I ‘m very happy. Living in the camp is like living under the wings of blessings because God is the shelter for refugees.
Naw Shen Nay Moo
ESP Mae La camp
18 March 2007
Early in the morning, when I wake up first I wash my face and brush my teeth. And I help my mother in cooking and carry the water for my whole family. When I finish helping my family, I take a bath at the well, and I go to school after breakfast. When I am in school I learn about the engineering subjects and practice some practical works. After the school, I come back home. When I arrive home, I take rest for a moment, and I start carrying the water for my family to bath and to cook. And then I play cane ball until it is nearly dark. I come back and take a bath at the well and then I take dinner. When I finish doing my duty, I take a rest about half an hour. And I start doing my home work in my bed room. After that as I am tired in the whole day I lie down on my bed until I fall asleep.
Saw Moo Ka Paw
ESP Mae La Camp
17 March 2007
Everybody has different life in the world. Everybody improves his or her life almost everyday. So sometimes I think how can I improve my life in the future as I m a refugee? But to live in the future is to live day by day. And this is daily life in Mae La Karen Refugee Camp. When I get up in the morning at 6 o’clock, I wash my face, brush my teeth (sometimes take some exercise by running along the road), fetch up the water for cooking, help mother necessarily and after breakfast I go to school. Learning, Talking, Joking, working in school and after school I go back home. I play volleyball for a moment. Take a bath, take dinner and then I visit my friend’s house to watch some movies. After that I come back home, study my lessons, and finish my homework then go to sleep.
Saw Soe Paine
ESP Mae La Camp
18 March 2007
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