I always liked people amid drama knows laugh
The history of the pumps and the "crazy"
"This is the old arsenal that erupted in 2007 and caused dozens of deaths ", I have my traveling companions, the former guerrilla, girl soldiers with terrible lives, of talk in the last post. The talk we had days earlier in Maputo has created bonds between us. They have broken down some barriers and fears with me and now, combines remote rural road in the capital, share laughter and confidences that are not always easy between African women and a man (over white). I believe that without those hours before crony told him I would not have told me after.
“Vaya, Many people died??”, wonder. "I think about 80 people ", I explained Ana, my friend Portuguese research leads him 4×4. Then, the two Mozambican women start laughing out loud. "What?, say. And they are dying of laughter because we passed the psychiatric hospital in Maputo. Then I have a tragic and surreal delirious.
They all started singing the happy birthday and there was no way to put them in a building where they tried to protect them from the bombs
"When I broke the arsenal, which is less than a kilometer from the hospital, bombs shook the sky and burst to kilometers. Then, on television became a story of caregivers of psychiatric hospital where the sick had left all the yard thinking it was a party. Everyone began to sing the happy birthday and there was no way to put them in a building where the wardens tried to protect them from the bombs. They thought it was a celebration and clapped their hands and sang songs proving that it was fireworks that did not want to lose ", Juana explains to me among the constant laughs of all. Luckily there were only some injured.
"The next day at the plate (local minibus), market, at all sites in Maputo talked about that story in stitches ", tell me. "Poor", all cried, but we could not stop laughing imagining a scene as "crazy". Then, made a forced silence when amid revelry todThenel Ana told how the sick are periodically thrown into the street when the hospital runs out of food. "They are forced to wander the streets because they can not feed. That is why you will sometimes see groups of mentally ill be lost in the city. Then, when having food, collect them all and re-lock ", my friend tells me. Silence.
The story of the soldiers terrified in the big city
When we returned from the interviews, the encounter with Laura who narrated stories harsh, talk politics, colonialism, the role of women ... until we passed the hospital. Then again some laughs and Laura began to chuckle again telling Jane "tells the story of the soldiers of Renamo". Then, Joan began to die laughing when he got his breath and told me this story as delusional as above.
Renamo, I told in a post, you have a troop to the then called ghost. A terrible story of soldiers who live like animals in a 20 years in the forest and today is sadly now here, spoken of the possibility of renewed conflict. All these women, the former guerrilla, They are volunteers today to an NGO that helps former combatants reintegrate into society. Rosalina was responsible for convincing the troop of the forest to come out for the first time the tree hiding and misery and go down to Maputo to apply for grants that have ex-soldiers.
Comenzaron running in terror, others were thrown to the ground, cried and ran from one place to another, sometimes circle, they did not know where to go
"They got off the bus at this roundabout", I say. (A huge market crowded with people). "Then, Rosalina led them lined up all those men scared to death to walk in a city that no one knew. They live forever in the jungle. As he passed the stalls had a fight between cops and some merchants. The agents then took their guns and fired into the air to disperse the crowd. Then, all those soldiers to hear gunshots started running in panic, others were thrown to the ground, cried and ran from one place to another, sometimes circle, they did not know where to go. They thought it was a trap, that they had been deceived and Frelimo troops was ambushing them ", explain them laughingly recalling the scene. "A Rosalina had a hard time finding all. Some were hiding and did not want to leave. When did the bus again and said they were returning home without seeking their pensions. No ones will return to Maputo, do not like the city ".
Both are stories that tell the everyday life that is lived on this earth. Here the euphemisms are luxuries not yet dreamed. They talk to the bowels, the same among those living. Do not look at these stories any contempt from them, there is no. They speak of others with the same harshness that speak of themselves. The same with which Laura said her husband "left her for being disabled", while teaching his wooden leg he lost to a mine. The same one he remembered, laughing and shooting without looking in the attacks, scared to death, for his fellow stick together not shoot him or beat by cowards; Same with some blush that feature to stop joking at first as Laura aguató over 24 hours without peeing for soldiers not to look at her to be kidnapped with 14 years.
I always liked people amid drama knows laugh.
