Old friends meet again......

Left: Helen and at the right Alibina

It is about 5 years ago that those 2 friends had to say goodbye to each other. At the left is Alibina and at the right Helen. They both lived in Amecet at the same time and they were always together.... They "survived" together!! Alibina is 6 months older than Helen, both couldn´t go back to their families. We tried, but it didn't work out. Then they were both adopted by Amecet staff members, Alibina by Stephanie and Helen by me. Stephanie went back to Germany and took Alibina and Julius with her. Alibina was 6 years at that time and Julius was 2 years old. (Julius also lived in Amecet before Stephanie adopted him.) Helen and Alibina were both excited to see each other again, but the language was a bit difficult, Alibina had forgotten all her Atesso and even her English, so talking was hard, but after a while there was laughing and Mama Stephanie translated for them...

It was so nice to see them again!!! Alibina is now 11 years old and Julius is 7 years old. It is so good for them to see the country they came from and meet the people who knew them from the beginning.

 That is why we went with them to Alibina´s village. Both her parents died, in the beginning the grandmother tried to care for Alibina, but we had to take Alibina back to Amecet, because it was too much for the grandmother who cared already for Alibina's older brother and sister. The grandmother disappeared suddenly, together with the brother and sister. But she came back after some years and we wanted to visit them today. 

 It was maybe 9 years ago that she had seen Alibina, it was really nice to see her joy, to see her grand daughter. Alibina is sitting at the right and her sister, behind her grandmother. Alibina looks very much like her sister.

Later, her older brother came as well and it was so special to see them together. There was a lot of talking, many aunties and neighbours came to see Alibina.The communication was a bit hard, Alibina only speaks German, so the Atesso was translated by Simon into English and then Stephanie translated into German. it was a good time and it will not be the last time that they will see each other, new friendships were made....

We drove back to Soroti and Julius and Catherine have become friends too. The communication is German and English, but never mind, they had a lot of fun together.....
And tomorrow... we are going to trace Julius' grandmother.......