After living a really impressing experience and seeing peeople in a big misery he gets to Ogagen. He gets bit by a spider, and he cannot turn his light. '' The commandant is ordering us to cut down light so that we don't give away the position of our camp''(217) Being bit by a scorpion is really dangerous and what is written in the reports is showing a really calm attitude that I would never have in that situation. After that happened he flew with Marcos to Gode. Police came near them to check them but he did not have papers. ''I had flown from Addis Ababa at the last moment, without any certainty that I would reach Ogaden''(218) In my opinion I think this is really risky, how can ge go somewhere with any papers or any certification of anything, and most of all in a moment where the war is in his face. '' In a polace where the Ethiopian goverment was organizing camps for the starving and the thirsty''(220)He starts talking about Getahun. He is the commandant and Kapuscinski has to deal with him. This commandant '' Every morning went to the camp to urge the people to go out into the desert. we'll dig a canal, he would say, the water will flow, the corn will grow. ''(220) What I see in this, is that Getahum is a really powerfull and manipulative person. He goes to these people that are starving to death and tries to manipulate them to get his benefits while what they want is camels, meat and milk.
Then, they took him to Mogadishu. They drove for five long days and only drank camels milk. He talked again with other people and they said a little about their culture. These Somali people said '' the year consists of the rainy season called gu, and the dry season jilal''(224) I thinks its interesting when e writes this because it lets other people ''learn'' other things.
It jumps to another chapter where he is with some poeple, talking about where he is from and they talk about the snow and how wonderfull it is. ''Poland. They did not know of any such country.''(230) Its really weird seeing how some people dont know where other contries are , but this happens to not so much civilizzed people opf with poverty and wars. ''The Nana recived us. There is a Nana in every village, because Nana means boss, head man, a sort of mayor but with more authority''(229) I think this facts are really interesting and its a good idea of his to add this facts. They started to talk about his country and he started saying some things that I think that were good because he was sharing about his country and how it was.
I think the soccer was was a really good book. Its not only a book but its full f reports of Kapuscinski. He has had a really amazing live, meat new things, a lot of places, and learned new things. Thanks to all the things he has writted, and we've read some, we have learned a little more about wars and other contries situations. Everyone suffers, wars have always excisted and injustices. Kapuscinski lets us see the side of the countries we never new and he talks about it so personally and deeply that we feel it. This was a really good book.
