My sister is a missionary, and was matron of the Masanga Leprosy Hospital in the jungles of Sierra Leone. Locals would come to help out, because the hospital would pay them a sack of rice a month (they're starving and monkeys don't take money). When civil war broke out between five different tribes, the women had to leave, because if you met a military aged male, there was a four out of five chance he wanted to kill you.
She took her dog so he wouldn't get eaten, and a cool little boy who worked at the hospital. A week after she left, one of the warring tribes came to the hospital, stole the generator and a bunch of stuff, killed the nurse that tried to stop them, then dumped all the stuff 100 yards down the road and set fire to it. Nice.
The lad's student visa was going to expire in England and he was going to get deported back to Sierra Leone. My sister wanted to send him to America, but the idiot immigrations official gave her the wrong advice, and he got locked out of the States permanently. He needed to get to Canada, where he could declare asylum, but they wouldn't let him fly to Canada, because Sierra Leone is blacklisted (politicians at work).
He arrived in Mexico for his trip to Canada. Crossing the border from America to Canada, he got caught and arrested. They played good cop, bad cop, and after the bad cop had worked him over, the good cop sat down and asked for his story. When he found out he just wanted to get to Canada to declare asylum, the border guard took him out to his personal car and drove him into Canada, and waited till he got his free asylum coat and free asylum apartment. Pretty amazing.
He's lived in Canada ever since, but came down for Christmas, and I get to see him Sunday, and they're still going to let me watch the Cowboys game (moved to Sunday night because it's the game of the week, btw). It's going to be sweet.
She took her dog so he wouldn't get eaten, and a cool little boy who worked at the hospital. A week after she left, one of the warring tribes came to the hospital, stole the generator and a bunch of stuff, killed the nurse that tried to stop them, then dumped all the stuff 100 yards down the road and set fire to it. Nice.
The lad's student visa was going to expire in England and he was going to get deported back to Sierra Leone. My sister wanted to send him to America, but the idiot immigrations official gave her the wrong advice, and he got locked out of the States permanently. He needed to get to Canada, where he could declare asylum, but they wouldn't let him fly to Canada, because Sierra Leone is blacklisted (politicians at work).
He arrived in Mexico for his trip to Canada. Crossing the border from America to Canada, he got caught and arrested. They played good cop, bad cop, and after the bad cop had worked him over, the good cop sat down and asked for his story. When he found out he just wanted to get to Canada to declare asylum, the border guard took him out to his personal car and drove him into Canada, and waited till he got his free asylum coat and free asylum apartment. Pretty amazing.
He's lived in Canada ever since, but came down for Christmas, and I get to see him Sunday, and they're still going to let me watch the Cowboys game (moved to Sunday night because it's the game of the week, btw). It's going to be sweet.
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