DAY 15
HOW WE WENT FISHING
I slept eight straight hours and I woke up at six a.m. at the break of dawn. Sleeping well was a new custom that I was thankful for. The fever had disappeared. There were still some children sleeping in the hut I was in. I went out to the central clearing, proud to be among the first to get up, but I was disappointed because the whole camp was already scurrying around in frantic activity. I walked up to the fire and I took a piece of meat and some fruit. After that I drank a couple of long gulps of water. It was very fresh, it was recently brought from the river. There were women working on the bark of a tree they called pongo-pongo. They were somehow softened and they smashed them down with stones again and again, as if they were kneading the dough to make bre
