Peter the 'Lost Boy'

Peter is from Sudan and he is a “Lost Boy”. When he was a young boy he had to do a forced migration. Many boys (and some girls) had fled from their villages and looked for helped all over their country. There was war were they lived and they had to cross their country for refuge. The people that were migrated and become there came to be few of them because of starvation, heat, wildlife attacking them, shot at, crossing of river Gilo. Only few survived only to live in a refuge camp. After 11 years they were migrating into America. They were very lucky to have an opportunity to do this. When they were going to America they thought it was ‘heaven’ but after a short while after arrival they found many difficult tasks of American culture. They needed jobs to have money for food, shelter. They were being robbed in their house and that was difficult for Peter because he needed the money for himself and to send to his family in Sudan. Peter wanted to be educated so ‘when’ he comes back he would teach his people in Sudan.

Peter was very shocked on how different it was in the U.S.A. It was hard for him to deal with this but he managed to pull it off. He moved to Kansas because he thought that there many schools over there and he thought right. He managed his time school, eat, work, homework. Every day he did the same thing. One night he called his sister and his sister was angry because Peter was not sending much money to Sudan. Peter income was every low and he had to take care of himself and Sudan. Peter eventually graduated and his hard work did pay off because he was heading for university.