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Dalton1
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 Posted - 02 Mar 2007 : 13:11:14
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It's a nice piece for those that follow the lesson in it.I am sure our German brothers takes credit of the piece, and they will rejoin to this. The author now lives in NC, and was in Europe equally in the 90s, but actual fact not the character 'pico', locally 'paco'. i quized him on it.
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....................than any one thing." - Abraham Lincoln 16th president of US (1809 - 1865)
? DEUTSCHLAND ?
Land of My Dreams
By Momodou Laama Jallow......................Posted March 1st, 2007
....? After only two years in Europe, Pico had already shipped three cars. A Peugeot 505, a Ford sierra, and
.....Mercedes Benz 190. He had paid for his father?s pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca and sponsored two
.....of his..friends to come over. He felt proud, smiled to himself and is suddenly overwhelm by a strong sensation.
.... A feeling of accomplishment, a goal that has been his focused all along. He cried a little bit and quietly
.....muttered to himself. God bless Germany ?
The day he turned 16 years old Pico has a premonition that he was standing in the middle
of a lake surrounded by water that is completely white. He looked up and the sky completely
turns white. He looked around him and felt strange faces staring at him and they all wore
white mask. Everywhere he looked things turns white. Shocked from this experienced Pico
kept silent. He never told this to anyone and had quietly searched for the meaning of this
riddle for many years.
Berlin, Germany 1992, It has been a cold winter. Pico stood in front of K? Strasse, or Kings Street
his feet under a two foot of snow. Across the street stood a giant bill board with the neon sign flashing
DEUTSCHLAND! GERMANY! He surveyed his surroundings. The snow is everywhere. It has been
snowing for two days. The snow has blanketed the whole city. Dressed in heavy winter clothing Pico
stood for a moment looking at the landscape and it suddenly dawned on him. This is indeed the answer to
the riddle that had baffled him all these years. This place, this moment as if momentarily frozen in time is
what he had experienced in a dream nearly a decade ago. He felt good about himself knowing this is
indeed his manifest destiny.
After only 24 months in Europe he had already shipped three cars. A Peugeot 505, a Ford sierra, and
Mercedes Benz 190. He had paid for his father?s pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca and sponsored
two of his friends to come over. He felt proud, smiled to himself and is suddenly overwhelm by a strong
sensation. A feeling of accomplishment, a goal that has been his focused all along. He cried a little bit and
quietly muttered to himself. Thank God and God bless Germany.
Two years earlier Pico was drinking tea ?Attaya? at his favorite street corner aptly dubbed ?Hanover?.
Here with his friends, all poor and improvise but yet optimistic about the future. Pico used to listen to
stories and learned the intricacies of surviving in Europe as a hustler. The necessity and importance of
securing the required travel documents. He has just finished secondary school and looking for a job. He
had dropped applications at various places but so far none has responded less called him for an
interview. He thought of joining the army but changed his mind at the last minute when he received a letter
from his best friend Bob who left a year earlier. This letter made it possible for him to find his way to
Europe, a journey that eventually changed his life forever.
He had come to Germany in the summer and had been captivated by the neon lights, the skyscrapers, the
cafes, the excellent living conditions and the beautiful cars that zoomed by daily. Now after two years he
can speak the language fluently and had a beautiful German wife. They are expecting their first baby. He
had quickly adjusted to his new adopted country. His life has changed for the better. Life is good. But in
spite of all this opulence, Pico cannot forget the land of his birth, GAMBIA and the people that still
deserves his help.
Momodou Laama Jallow
North Carolina, USA
E-mail: Eliyasou@Yahoo.com
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