Sabine Kuegler
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 274
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Today, she blends in with everyone else but homesickness and longing constantly burn inside her& It must have been October. I m 17 years old, standing at the train station in Hamburg. An icy wind sweeps across the platform. I m terribly cold; nobody explained to me how to dress in winter. I observe the people around me with mistrust and I m ready to hit anyone who should attack me. How can I defend myself? I have neither a bow and arrow nor a knife on me. I start to shiver, tears roll down my cold cheeks, I long for the humid heat of my homeland. I m a child of the jungle Sabine Kuegler s story begins as she arrives in West Papua (Indonesia) at age five, daughter of German linguists who are missionaries. She arrives to find a tribe which even today lives as if it were the Stone Age. The little blonde girl falls in love with the jungle at first sight it s a fantasy world, a playground. She learns to hunt, to climb, to swim in the raging river which is teeming with crocodiles. Instead of french fries she eats roasted insects, instead of gum she chews bat wings. At age 17 Sabine is sent to a Swiss boarding school to get her diploma. And so Sabine learns everything for the first time how to shop, how to greet people, how to cross the street &