Christiana
Christiana was awoken from her sleep in in 1999 by her Mother saying ” listen, listen”. The first time, she heard nothing, but then again her Mother said ” listen, listen”. It was the sound of gun shots being heard all over the city.
The rebels were invading her city of Freetown, Sierra Leone.
They quickly got into a friends vehicle and started to head out of the city. There were shots being fired at their vehicle and it seemed that they had got away fine. Christiana was crunched in the back seat when she looked down to realize that two shots hit her in the chest. They rushed her to a clinic outside the city to get medical attention quickly. Her life was almost taken, but she somehow survived. She gives Thanks to God for each breathe that she takes. She lost all her cousins and her Grandmother who were killed by Rebels. If she is awoken in the night, during her sleep or if she drinks heavily, she suffers from a panic attacks and flashbacks to the awful days in what they call the Former Life of Sierra Leone. She now lives in Freetown with her two sons and runs her own business selling souvenirs to foreigners.
