Khota's now become a bad word. It means their terrace and we used to sleep out at night.

Where do you sleep? We slept in a tent that was very low to the ground, because the winds on Antarctica were so extreme, it would blow anything else away.

One particularly terrifying night, as my family was clustered in our foyer where we had been sleeping for days, my mother spread her arms across a wall and kissed it.

Yeah, it was devastating when we lost everything in that fire, but it's kind of nice sleeping out here under the stars, and it's a good thing you've got all that body fat to keep us warm.

We all slept in one room in the basement, and our backpacks were ready they had money, our passports even.

I don't know how this issue can be resolved, and I wonder how we as human beings and Muslims can sleep at night while the situation of the Somalis is deteriorating to the extent that piracy has become the chosen profession for some of them.

It was enough to terrorise us and make us surrender. The soldiers surrounded us on the sidewalk and forced us to fall on our knees and put our hands on our heads, while some were pointing their guns at us and the others continuing to shoot in the air.