THIS IS A PIECE OF MY BOOK: TENT BOY TENT LIFE

"The “Operation Rudi Nyumbani” was taking course as the lorries popularly known as Tugogo wound their way on the dusty path leading to the strategically located tent areas. Everyone in the Burnt Forest Town tents was busy tying their baggage and luggage preparing to go back to their niche. My most profound pleasure was being given free lifts to the areas I had just been visiting like Rurigi,Kamuyu, Kondoo Center and Bindura. Surprisingly, the tent school we were in closed with immediate effect from Eight a.m. Monday in the first week of June. Ever heard of a school closing at this time of year (except the striking schools)? Well, that was our custom. What you hear being called a school was just big tents, without doors . No teachers no books and nothing. Only tents that could be mistaken for conference halls. And this wasn't healthy for a Form three student like me. But that was how things were. We had already switched to this kind of life since we were flushed out of our homes in 2007. this year when mentioned sends jitters even to small children who witnessed the work done by the arsonists. They are the reason behind us living in tents and not our houses. The ultimate reason why we were suffering.................."