Personal Narrative: How War Changed My Life

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I have been born in Eritrea the country located in northern east of Africa. To live in a war country is very difficult. Eritrean people suffered a lot to get independence from Ethiopia. This armed struggle took 30 years to be achieved. Eritrea people paid a huge scarify in order to establish free and democratic country. After living 7 years in relative peace and harmony with our former colonizer Ethiopia the war sparked again and affected both countries very hard. I have been born in war and growth on it and experienced the worst condition of it. The reasons that made me hate war was its difficulties left a scar in my life, have been faced odds that test patience, and learn never to give up hope and solace at any circumstance. While, the …show more content…
The weather was good at the beginning unfortunately it turned and faced storms. It was very rough as a result of this storm we lost our direction and washed away by the strong storm to the shores of Tunisia after 5 days. Then return back to Libya. After that I attempted 4 times it means the 5th and the last journey. The last journey was not easy. We were 86 people in a plastic dinghy. There were also 2 pregnant women with us. The trafficker promised us to give us a big boat or ship but when we reach the shore we get another story. We found a plastic dinghy he forced us to board and leave the shore. After hours one part of the dinghy deflated and started to leak water from the bottom. Our captain tried to fix it but it was not successful, but we continued the journey. The weather was excellent and the captain did his best to reach international waters in order to get help. The second day one part of the dinghy completely deflated and became hard to move. We did an emergency call to the people we know in Italy. I started to worry and prayed hard to God to save our life. After an hour a surveillance aircraft hovered over us and everybody delighted. The happiness was not complete till the Italian navy frigate