so i'm doing some writing and as i'm writing i've been doing some research. i watched a couple of videos: link one, and link two.
link two isn't in english, so if you watch it (+ it's like 45 minutes long) you have to follow along with the english translation on the side.
the first video made me proud for that young woman who was speaking. she was forceful, she was eloquent and she was young. there's this moment where helicopters are going by i guess and she smiles and looks up and i think it's so wonderful. i don't know i just think the expressions of her face say so much.
the second video made me angry. pretty much anything about the rwandan genocide can make someone angry, but apart from the horror of that atrocity, the interview itself i just felt was so inappropriate. the interviewer answered his phone during it, and he made me repeat really painful experiences over and over if she didn't respond in the format he wanted. i just felt horrible for that young woman. and she's twenty-five, y'know (at the time of the interview). that's not far from my age. fourteen when everything happened to her family. i can't imagine.
anyway. she was just so patient and strong. you could see it in her expressions too. there was something far away about her. like she needed to be somewhere else in her head in order to stay together.
give me a lot to think about.
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