Personal Narrative: My Wife Is Still Alive

In 2004 I got the first information that my wife was alive. My friend, who was from another ethnic group, gave me this news. Hey said she might be in Tanzania, or maybe Congo, but, she never died. When they killed all those people in the church, she was in with the dead people, along with four other women. She had to sleep with the dead people to hide and stay alive. But when it was over, people knew she didn’t die because they didn’t see her die and didn’t find her after. They said they didn’t find any of those five women, and those five women are all still alive today. I wanted to see the person who told me this story, so I got a ticket from Denmark to Burundi and from Burundi to Congo. When I was there, I met with many people and they all told me my wife never died. They didn’t know where she was, but she was alive. It gave me hope. I went back from the village to Denmark again, because …show more content…
because I played soccer and refereed in Denmark, and I met a woman named Leslie. She became my friend and told me to call her when I got permission to work. Instead, I started working at Walmart, in the toy section, but this job wasn’t for me. I needed to be working with people, with my heart. So Leslie found me and told me I could be an interpreter for refugees. She told me ‘They have a position at Lutheran Services. They want people who can interpret.” I told her that I couldn’t because my English was not very good, so it wouldn’t be possible. She kept telling me to try and got me an interview, because she was friends with the woman who would interview me, Karen. So I went to LSI and they asked me about my life, about everything. There were so many questions, and they were all in English. Now when I talk with Karen, my supervisor who interviewed me, she said “I gave you the job because of Leslie. Your English was so slow. But now, your English has exploded!” So I love my job now. I work with refugees and help them relocate