Ishmael Beah

" The first time in my life I had my own room. Most poeple would take this for granted. For me it was absolutely intriguing!"(Beah, 2009) I find it hard to believe that someone could go from having to go fetch their water for a bath to living in a hotel room years later. For Ishmael to go, as a child, from war to New York writing a book is miraculous! It must be like a dream to him, or at least it had to seem like a dream at first. I seriously find it so unfathomable that today, for him to come from a child in war, he is standing in front of hundreds of students talking about his book he wrote and what he had to go through to get here. Kudos to Ishmael Beah!!