What They Took With Them — Transcript
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- 0:13wallet empty wallet wallet money coins
- 0:16pennies torch whistle laser pointer seen
- 0:18more clearly out at Sea three bags one
- 0:21bag ruck sack truck yellow plastic bag
- 0:24for paper cell tape till waterproof and
- 0:26yellow cards for refugees and national
- 0:28ID Army service record and an
- 0:31information booklet from the government
- 0:33diploma Electronics certificate from
- 0:35high school passport if you've got one
- 0:36you can take expensive one-way ticket
- 0:38fake flag flag national flag flash drive
- 0:42laptop phone mobile phone number phone
- 0:44number phone number SIM card spare one
- 0:45phone phone smartphone with Skype and
- 0:47FaceTime headphones charger charger
- 0:49overseas adapter house
- 0:52keys house
- 0:54keys house
- 0:58keys we have suffered so much I want to
- 1:01study so that I can become someone
- 1:04again painkillers painkillers
- 1:06seasickness tablets walking stick
- 1:08walking stick white cane crutches
- 1:10wheelchair syringes to use an emergency
- 1:12bandages bandages toilets toothpaste
- 1:14toothbrush and toothpaste nail clipper
- 1:16comb shampoo and hair gel barber
- 1:18equipment and sunscreen ointment for
- 1:19sunburn tablets for Sun's epilepsy one
- 1:21every day and all vaccinations recorded
- 1:24to date for the baby and face whitening
- 1:27cream I want my skin to be white and my
- 1:30hair to be spiked I don't want them to
- 1:32know I'm a
- 1:34refugee what if somebody spots me and
- 1:36calls the police because I'm illegal but
- 1:40not if I'm
- 1:41white that's right isn't
- 1:43it traditional clothing warm clothing
- 1:46baby clothing favorite clothing dirty
- 1:48clothing wet clothing layered clothing
- 1:49pants pants sewing machine it's my life
- 1:51it's my blood for dresses change of
- 1:53clothes one pair of Flowery jeans that I
- 1:55wore to a party and won't wear again
- 1:57till I go to another one one shirt one
- 1:59shirt and one miss sandal pair of shoes
- 2:01pair of shoes new never worn a hijab a
- 2:03gift from a friend my favorite scarf
- 2:05with the skulls on I just love the color
- 2:07my turban my turban's my guardian now it
- 2:09protects my identity and my faith
- 2:12without it I'm vulnerable head scarf
- 2:14from someone who died in the conflict a
- 2:15hat for the baby and socks for the baby
- 2:17one nappy just one and sanitary tows
- 2:19sports jacket for warm and some have a
- 2:21life jacket too and some
- 2:24don't the most painful thing about being
- 2:26a refugee is that you wake up one day to
- 2:29find you've lost all of your Liberty and
- 2:31can no longer decide on your life it's
- 2:34like everything is closed in your face
- 2:37so there's nothing else but the
- 2:39sea there's nothing but the sea there's
- 2:42a way to get out and be
- 2:46free cigarettes carton packet lighters
- 2:49pip milk sterile water bottled water
- 2:52water water everywhere halfly to bottle
- 2:54for a one we trip bottled oil lemons
- 2:56lemons dates dates dates dates biscuits
- 2:58crackers crackers crackers be a 10 tea
- 3:00set for the others on the boat we're
- 3:02thirsty tired and afraid I'll make some
- 3:04tea that's what we do we make a family
- 3:07baby food marshmallows bread that wasn't
- 3:09fully baked the man who threw us out
- 3:10wouldn't let us finish
- 3:13up metal cooking pot to make some dinner
- 3:16for the children one man only brought a
- 3:17cup I'd have been ashamed to ask every
- 3:19day for a cup just to take a drink of
- 3:21water people get tired of being asked
- 3:23for things all the time and eventually
- 3:25they will say no now I have my own cup
- 3:28it gives me Independence
- 3:30no matter where I go plastic carpets rug
- 3:32rug pillow animal skin tent a piece of
- 3:34mortar from the house piece of soil from
- 3:36the garden wrapped in fabric sacred soil
- 3:38sacred books sacred text rosary and
- 3:40prayer beads rosary prayer beads Rosary
- 3:43my headdress hides the key to a small
- 3:45metal chest containing all of the
- 3:46essentials for a wedding ring ring charm
- 3:49ring mother's wedding ring I lost mine
- 3:50in the bombing so my mother gave me hers
- 3:52my earrings I make jewelry all the
- 3:54jewelry of my people it symbolizes
- 3:56Freedom no one tells me what to wear
- 3:58heart necklace neace Virgin Mary
- 4:00necklace bracelet bracelet bracelet no
- 4:03the bracelet is not my favorite thing
- 4:05that's Nancy she's my doll the night we
- 4:07fled my mother put her on my bed so we
- 4:09would not forget her but in all the rush
- 4:11she did get left behind I don't mind
- 4:13she'll keep watch watch digital and
- 4:16analog family portrait photos photos
- 4:19photo of my father memories of my father
- 4:22I have nothing for my home everything
- 4:25was broken in the
- 4:26struggle we were out in just 10 minutes
- 4:32they destroyed the house around my sick
- 4:34bed the neighbors heard me shout and
- 4:37came and carried me out I carried both
- 4:39my children in baskets swinging from a
- 4:42pole across my shoulders and I carried
- 4:44my virginity out at Sea we rubbed
- 4:46ourselves in vomit so the Pirates
- 4:48wouldn't touch
- 4:52us I escaped with my
- 4:56children sister brother husband wife
- 5:00with My
- 5:01Soul with my
- 5:03smile with my life
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