"I want to talk about a story, a story of a girl who grew up a time away." "It's a story of love, hate, forgiveness, brutality and beauty for life." "It's a true story, it's my story." "The early years of my childhood" "I spentwith my family in nepal." "Once in 1979, for political reasons, we had to leave, my parents sought a newjob in Indonesia." "I was eightyears old when my father, in the huge forest of West Papua, discovered a previouIy unknown tribe." "Itwas during one of his expeditions, some three daysjourney from Irian Jaya." "Itwas a people whom he kew only by legends and rumours, and they took his life as in the stone age, the Fayu." "Sabine, come." "The class is about to start." "My father wanted to Iearn the language of this people." "He received permission, by Fayu chief, to live among them." "The real jungle, Bo." "Imagine that." "really?" "Whatwere you thinking?" "That this is the discovery of my Iife." "And what are you supposed to be a home?" "A one?" "An alternative?" "A experimental one?" "If we live among them, it's like a trip to the stone age." "How safe is thatyour stone age?" "Boko assured me thatwe are under his protection." "Into a language and culture thatyou do not quite understand." "Doris, I'm a linguist." " I have a possibility, a language..." " What is happening with you?" " What else will go out of your mouth?" " Doris..." "Doris!" "Doris, it's not Iike to close a gap mapping." "This is about the elucidation of the secret of human prehistory." "Psst!" "Let me do the research, please." "I build a house." "And when you come, I'II getting better the Fayu language." "ItwiII be good for us, believe me." "believe me." "After five months, the day has finally arrived, in which we went to our father about 100 km till the remote village of Fayu." "In the middle of the deepestjungIe, in a world where my Iife would change forever." "JUNGLE CHILD" " Dad!" " My dear." "hello, Princess." " Oh, daddy, you stink!" " What?" "The first meeting" "Are they here?" "Yeah, they don't trust this modern device." "Look there." "Look over there." "Sabie, Judithu e Babu..." "Dorisu." "Judithu?" "Yes, Fayus use names with a vowel at the end." "Christian, you are now Babu again, Iike when you were a little one." "This is the chief Boko." "Don't be afraid, they have never seen children with blond hair." "Rub the forehead is a greeting." "It means peaceful intentions." " Daddy." " Don't be afraid." "AII right." "Okay?" "We go together?" "." "Quiet, Timmy." "Itwon't long." "Why can't they help us to carry the bags?" "They are hunters, not carriers." " What stinks so much here?" " hold your breath, go on." "Come on, it's almost over." "This is klaus's family." "Don't be afraid." "Bine!" "Are you ready?" "There it is!" "We are in thejungIe, jungle, jungle, jungle, jungle..." "Get some rest." "Look at the stove!" "calm, Timmy." "This is your new home." "I sleep here." "And Bo, where do you stand?" "Just look at me, I'm Tarzan." " What is this?" " This is a scraper." "I know some scrapers from emergency rooms." " It's a knife thatwasn't made for this purpose." " always knows what else." "Doris, we are safe here." "This is a neutral place." "neutral?" "Yeah, as long as we don't interfere, we're out." "This is Dea." "Aboutwhat should we not interfere?" "I always mix, klaus." " We are not here ina a tribal dispute, isn't it?" " Not directly." "The Fayus were a Iarge tribe... and are now divided into two hostile groups, who fight one another." " As I said, here we are safe." "Here..." " Here is the Swiss I know." " Listen here." "What is this?" " Oh, sandpaper." "Exact." "The food is not ready yet." "We were invited by Fayus." "What makes a good guest?" "We bury it." " So, if you go to the bathroom, grab a shovel." " And where's the bathroom?" "And now some rules of thejungIe." "First:" "Never go alone to thejungIe." "AII you eat, show me first." "Drink only boiled water." "Never leave home without shoes." "Don't swim in the river far away." "Since the evening, all remain at home." "We are friendly with everyone." "We do not mix and now, again, the most important:" "Never go alone in thejungIe!" " Did you understand?" " And how long we stay here?" " until I konw the language well." " Two, tres years?" " It may take 20 years." " What?" "20 years?" "Never." "The Origin of Fayus" "Owaka Fu." "Fu." " Fu?" " Fu." " Fu." " Fu." "Fu." "Fu." "Fu." " Fu." " Fu." " Fu." " Fu." "Everything is 'Fu'?" "The meaning of a word varies according to the manner of speaking." "The cannoe: 'Fu'." "The tree trunk: 'Fu'." " And what is the word for water?" "." " Water is 'Di'." "Di, di, di, di, di..." "Di?" "Di?" "Di?" "children here don't need to go to the school." "By the way, it's a differentway." "Why do we really learn english?" "No one here speaks english." "So thatyou can to communicate with everyone." "I want to stay here." "And I would Iike to Iearn Fayu!" "Oh, Bine, you learn by yourself, playing with the children." " They don't know how to play anything." " And they have no toys." "You cannot do it anyway." " GooI!" "Yeah!" " Bine, where are your fIipfIops?" " Ask for." " Can we go swimming?" " Okay." "Di?" "Di?" "Di?" "The Curse" " What is she feeling?" " She is in pain." "But something seems to be wrong." " And why the women sing?" " I don't know!" "call your dad!" "Dad!" "Dad!" "Dad!" "Di!" "Di!" "help!" "Di!" "Di!" "help me." "Di." "Di." "Di." "Di." "help me." "Di." "Di." "Di." "Di." "Di." "Dad!" "help!" "Di." "Di." "Mom!" "No help." "She died before my eyes, they all just stood and watched." "She was sick." "Fayus don't believe that a person could die naturally." "It's a sign or a curse." "If someone dies from a desease, then it's a curse and they don't try to help, because you can't heal a curse." " This is a complete nonsense." "You know we could help her." " With drugs, what do I know?" "The woman goes to heaven like us?" "Yeah, sure, Bine." " And she was cursed?" " No." " She passed out by pain." " For Fayus she was cursed." "And not even mom could stop it." "It pass soon, ok?" "Ok." "Beep, beep, beep, we all love each other" "Everyone can eat as much as their peers" "We took it too, for sure:" "but not on our side" "We ate it all, then don't forget to brush your teeth" "Beep, beep, beep, we all love each other" "I'm sorry." "What he sings?" ""My wife, you're gone and I'm alone. "" ""I'm alone and it's night and I don't have a wife. "" "I understand that." "Let's put the kids to bed." "Daddy?" "We can also be cursed?" "No, Bine." "We are not among them." "We have no ravenge." "We don't break any rules." "We are safe." "The chief Boko promised us his protection and a promise here is taken seriously." "And what if we were also as the Fayus are?" "And we did everything as they?" "We'II never be like Fayus." "We'II always be in our own world, with our own rules." "And here the curses have no place, got it?" "My Friend Faisa" "Death spiral" "Mom!" "Mom!" "A Fayu is hurt." "You have to help." "You can't do anything else." " I can see at Ieast." "Doris." "The Fayus don't know any natural way to death." "Therefore, they need to kill someone for a funeral." "If he dies, another must pay for it, ok?" " Then I'II make sure he survived." " Doris!" "We are guest here!" "You cannot have all the Fayu laws in your mind." "We can't teach them to forgive, all of a sudden." "You sent us to a civil war!" "You must teach forgiveness once." " Don't argue." "They watch you." "Are you still with that crumpled paper?" "." "Another world" " Did I miss something?" " No." " Some stinks outside here." " I feel sick." "Dad." "What he does with her?" "." "He says goodbye to her." "He gets a few days with her in the hut and then takes her to thejungIe." "And when she decomposes and only the bones remain then he brings the skull back to the hut and lives with her." "He does that so she'II never forget, you know, so that she stays with him." " Are you ok?" "Yes." "For us, the dead sleep under the ground." "On top of a box with flowers at Ieast it smells better." "But eventually they wither, then do not smell so good." "And with a skull you can at Ieast talk." "I want to go back!" "What a shame!" "Who is the woman?" "She is from the Irigre tribe." "Shut up!" "You are now my wife!" "Have you heard?" "Otherwise I'II kill you!" "What happened?" "Gohu took a new wife." "He did?" "What did you do?" " What did I do?" "What should I do?" "Coward!" "Mom, green hair creep towards Sabine blouse." "Oh!" "Yuck!" "Christian, for your shirt too." " Oh, dear." " Here too." "You shouldn't smash it all." "It'sjust a little mould." " It's nasty!" " That's the moisture, dear." "Daddy, what happened to her?" "." " She became the wife of Gohu." " Because the poor had none." "A Iot of attention from his friends!" "When his wife dies, no one cares for him, but they at Ieast help him to steal another one." " Where does she come from?" " She is Irigre." " From the Tribe, the wife of Gohu bewitched him." " Witchcraft does not exist!" "Not for us." "But for the Fayus the curse is as real as the pots for you." "What a stupid comparison!" "Say, we must to treat that before the children?" "Why not?" "Here we talk about everything in front of children." "AII happens here." " Why should we oppose, if it's notwith us?" " With arguments?" " So what?" " We stand for." "Butwe reconcile again and then no one curses us." " children must see that." " Now, kids, pay attention." "The First War" " Go home!" " Go." "Christian, come home!" "Down!" "Down!" "No, no, I want to see!" " Bine!" " Bine, go down." "Stay down!" "You'II stay here!" "You can move." "No body, no pain." "Gohu, Women and Love" "Thank you." "klaus, take the black bag." "Hey, calm down." "Go away!" "Go away!" " She heard me." "Yeah, she heards you." "She has an ugly wound." " Scissors." " Hm?" "Give me the scissors." "A gift." "To cut." "Come." "She must go alone." "Otherwise, he thinks we want to steal her from him." "Come." "Gohu shot because she didn't hear him?" "Yes, we can say that." "So are the laws of Fayus." "I'II do it too." "Then Sabine and Judith will obey me forever." " Agh!" " Mom!" "You've never done that before." "Now I need you to leave and don't look for a bit." "What is your name?" "Why haven'tyou heard Gohu?" "Gohu shot my son Auri with his arrow." "He fled into thejungIe." "But here he was cursed." "How are you?" "Mom didn't mean that!" "His son Aury was hit by Gohu... and then fled into thejungIe." " But he is not dead." " No." "But even if he lives, without tribe he has no chance." "So she is sad." "Fayus give up their wounded." "The curse is stronger." "Mom?" "Mom, dad!" "Mom!" "Mom!" "Open the door, mom!" "Dad?" "Mom?" "Mom, open it!" "The Fayus come!" "AII of them!" "Go back." "Itwas expected." "They don't understand whatyou've done with her!" "Come!" " She cannot go back to him!" " She must!" "There's no love between them!" "It's about survival!" " NaIa, NaIa, take that." " Forget it, she won't take that." "tell her to take the antibiotic." " She doesn't eat nothing that she doesn't know." " Then find another way." "tell her I'm an evil witch... and that my spell will turn her a pig." " Stop this nonsense." "tell her it's an anti-curse." "My wife is a witch." "Her medicine is so strong that can defeat the curse." "What are you doing?" "help against the curse." "Thousands fall at my left and ten thousand at my right." "So itwiII not hit me yet." "No evil shall happen to me and no plague will come near my home." "So he sent his angels to protect me in all my ways." "Amem." "Good night, dear." "Good night." " Auri isn't protected by anyone." " Who is Auri?" "The son of NaIa." " Maybe there's indeed a curse." " Are you crazy?" " Who knows?" " The medicine mom always helps!" "Maybe it only extends the curse." " And we only die later!" " Eh, Sabine, you're crazy for real!" "My Brother Auri" "One, two, three..." "crocodile dance." "Progress!" " I am Tarzan!" " But Tarzan is a boy." " So what?" "You can be Jane." " Are you mad?" "I'm bigger than you and Tarzan can't be lower than Jane." "And I am once again Tarzan!" " Where is Faisa?" " I don't know." "And who cares?" "The so-caIIed Tarzan doesn't know the way." "On this side!" " Now we could use a bow and arrow." "Yeah." "It's like as if..." "Christian." "Look at that." " I seek help." "You stay here." " No." "You have to take care of him, otherwise we don't meet him again, Christian." "What if I no Ionger be found?" "Sing as loud as you can and don't stop anymore." "You have to sing for three days and three nights." "I don't remember any song." "A dwarf is in the forest." " A dwarf is in the forest..." " Mom!" "Dad!" "Dad!" "Dad!" "Dad!" " Dad." "Auri, we need to save him." " What is happening?" "... in the woods, very quiet and silently." "He had a purple blanket on..." "Do you offer everything to Fayus, to they help us?" "I offer nothing, we'II do an exchange." "Life is give and take." "I help them, they help us." "a dwarf alone in the forest, into a purple blanket... a dwarf is in the forest quiet and silent." "He has a sheer blanket of purple." "Say what can..." "We must be calm." " Christian, all right?" "Yes." "Gee, that stinks!" "will he recover?" "." "I don't know, Bine." " I'II call NaIa." "She's his mother." " I've talked to her." "She says he should not be saved, ' cause he is cursed." "If he dies, Gohu and all other Irigre will be my enemies." "klaus!" "klaus!" "My name is Sabine." "You are with my family." "What are you doing?" "For Fayus, this means eternal friendship." "And?" "How?" "His new life?" "New family?" "His new home?" "What is he doing here?" "He doesn't belong to us!" "My Father and Peace" "Come." "Get outwith her." "Thank you." "I thank you, chief Boko, so thatwe can always be your guests." "We would Iike to envite you to eatwith us." "Just as I wantwe can help you." "Your wife beat the curse." "Yes, she is a very strong woman." "No one can defeat the curse!" "The boy will die!" "No!" "The boy will stay with us!" "He lies!" "No one is stronger that the curse!" "That is impossible!" "Time will tell who is right." "Chief Boko, you told me once thatyou long for peace, thatyou want no more kills, but thatyou don't know how to stop the war." "I cannot give you peace, because that can only be done by you alone." "An Irigre called Auri will grow with you." "As a friend of yours." "If the boy really survive, then I believe in you." "And now let's eat together!" "Let's eat." "It's happening." "Come." "Auri!" "They are my friends." "Faisa, Kamba, DiIa and Tabua." "The chief's son." "This is Auri, my new brother." "Brother?" "." "Yes." "Brother." "Brother." "... then I start thinking to send you some things." "This is the best I got without a freezer." "With all love, grandma." "See you soon." "Bine!" " Ice cream?" "Yes." "It seems to be the white ball of sago." " What is the brown?" " chocolate, vanilla, lemon." " And how does it taste?" " cold and sweet and savory." " I want to try them for sure." " Me too." "Christian!" "It grows in trees in Gemany?" " No." "You can buy in stores." " It must be paradise." "You will soon know." " How?" "In Germany?" " Mmm." " When?" "I must grab that?" "Not now, maybe next year, I'm not sure yet." "We can get!" "Perhaps here!" "There are waves everywhere." "Heavy Rain" "Auri!" " Aurupedoga." " Aurupedoga." "It is true that rains ice cream in Germany?" "Christian, you shouldn't believe everything that people tell you." "But it's true thatyou can achieve chocolate everywhere." "And look endless mirrors." "Sabie, wake up!" "You must look at this, you won't believe." "What?" "Oh, wow!" "You feel like walking on a boat." "Let's look at the front!" "silently..." "I know someone who would Iike that." " Come on, Judith, wake up!" " What?" " Come on, we have visitors." " Visitors?" "Yes." " Who?" " Look for yourself." "Come on." "Mom!" "Mom!" "Aih, aih, aih." "Ah." " What are you doing?" "It's a murder." "Stop it, mom!" " Murder?" "." "Now it's enough for me." "Out, I got tired." "Get outyou too." "fly out!" "Get out." "Out, out, out." "Doris." "We must save the pets." " Christian, are you crazy?" " They'rejust animals." "You shouldn't kill them!" " What are dad and mom doing here?" "Come on, ahn?" "Come, come." "Dad!" " Dad!" " What happened?" " I hit Sabine." " Where is she?" "Under the house." "Dad!" "Now nothing more happens." "Now they're all dead." "Decisive War" "Danau Bira an FoIda." "Danau Bira an FoIda." "please, answer." "Here Foida." "Here Foida." "I hear." "please." "Over." "Our helicopter should be fixed." "Today there's no mail." "Okay." "More news?" "Yes, from NGO." "Your vacation was granted." "You can fly to Germany next month." "Oh, good news after all." "Thank you." "Over and out." "Our vacation was approved." "We fly to Germany." " Are you happy?" " Oh, yes." " But?" " Sabine?" "Sabine!" "But I need to tell all my friends." " Auri will see Germany as well." " Sabine, he won't!" "What is going on with Judith?" "Mom says she's a woman." "Then she'II soon be stolen." "They are here!" "The Irigre are coming, come on!" "Go!" " Sit back!" " Get me off!" "I want to fight!" "Your can't take part." "I can't stand it." "I can't stand it." "I want them to stop screaming." "I can't stand it." "I want to leave." "I can't stand it." "I want go out." "Dad!" "No." "No." "Hear that?" "Hear how my daughter is crying?" "I can't stand it, dad!" "I don't take this anymore!" "Thank you." "KIausu." "KIausu!" "Do not leave us!" "We throw our weapons out." "We do not fight anymore." "I'm going to my tribe." "But I promise we will be gack." "Vacation in homeland" "And if they want to keep you there in your tribe?" "Dad promised to come back." "To curse someone, your need that hair." "You putyour life in your hand." "Thank you!" "If you die one day," "I don'twant to live anymore." "Oh, in time!" " welcome to the homeland!" " hello, Grandma." " Did you Iike my dress?" "Yes, sure." "And that is?" " Christian." " Christian." "And that?" "That is thejungIe girl?" "So let's go!" "What is this?" "Kids, come." "Come on!" "In fact, the dog always sits here, but today it's your place." "Sun and caution." "Meters away." "But next time I sit here, okay?" "Stop!" "Now they sow around too." "Sim." "Great, order to override all others." "until recently, itwas the same in Wuzburg." "You never stay out of sight, it is horrible in Germany!" "I enjoyed driving the car, I Ioved to drive." "But today it's not more fun." "The affluent society calls now, yeah." "Because anyone can drive a car." "Before I went in four hours from Frankfurt to Munchen." "Today you can go around the world." "I'm anxious to get home." "Count the times I prepared it for you." " Oh." " I want that." " No, I take it." " No, I said it first." " No, please." " Okay, so I picked up the bedroom." " What do you do with all those things?" " We kitchen." "We could do a six-course feast." " We can have ice cream?" "Yes, of course." " Oh, yeah." " Ice cream?" "In the middle of winter?" "." "Since you sent us the poster, she can hardly wait." " So tomorrow we get ice cream." "Yes!" "!" "Hey, Sabie." "You must look at that!" " What is it?" "Wow, it looks great." "Judith, look at that." " Grandma, Grandma." " Good morning!" "It looks beautiful." "Germany should be grateful for that." " What?" " Oh, the snow?" "If you Iike that so, you may start digging with shovels." " Can we go out?" "Yes, but put something on your feet." "Be careful!" "Maybe it is poisonous!" " No, it'sjust frozen water." " Oh, beautiful." "Yuhuh, yuhuh!" "Gee!" "It hurts." "Yes, you cannot go outside without shoes." "Jacke, Bine." "Nah, nah, nah, nah!" "She has a Iot to Iearn." " Thatwe all have." "Yes, but she, in a special way." "One, two, three..." "So we are going to take ice cream in february." "Legenda nao traduzida " "Here we are." "It's incredible for this point." " Kids, there are ice creams!" " Ice cream!" "Ice cream!" "Ice cream!" "Ice cream!" "Sabine!" "Bine!" "How many times I have to tell her to stay and wait her turn?" " Sabie doesn't like rules." " I noticed." " The rules are for our safety." " Sorry, Grandma." "If anything we get, we get we eat flies, files, files" "We eat flies, files, files on the wall" "please, here it is one more of strawberry." "well, you asked it." "Never do that!" "vanilla and chocolate tastes better than sago and crocodile." " What?" " Sago and crocodile." " please." " Thank you." "hello." "Two balls in the cup, please." "vanilla and nuts." " Two." " Sure." "No wonder, after all these years of food from thejungIe." "nostalgia" "Sabine, what's happening?" "Don'tyou like Germany?" "I couId stay here forever." "We need to go sledding." "We still have an old sled of your dad in the basement." "hey, Sabie!" "Look at that!" "Oh." "Oh, Iet's go, Iet's in." " I want to go home" " Butyou live animals." "What's that?" "You promised we went back home." "We'II do it soon." "Oh, Bine." "There's only eightweeks." " Try it." "I wait here." " Where is everybody?" " They probably went out." "Funny." "Mom!" "Good." "Auri." "Where are all our stuff?" "I knew you would come back!" "But Gohu said you would die!" " Food reserves are gone." " KIausu, KIausu!" "KIausu!" "Sorry if I believed in Gohu." "Now I know you can defeat the curse." "A gift for you." "Ah, Dorisu." "Oh!" "Learning to forgive" "Don't do that." "Hey, hey, you!" "Come here!" "Hey!" "That doesn't look good." "Boko is not happy with his son." "Theft is punishable by death." " But his father won't do that." " Oh, you're so silly, Judith." " Of course not!" " They stole our things." "No, they did not steal." "We left the things and they thoughtwe were dead." " The more fear we feel, more crazy we are." " calm down." "Tabua is hidden in thejungIe." "He is afraid of how KIausu reacts." "Dad, then we should give him the meat." "Isn't it our right too?" "Chief Boko" "I want to talk with your boy." "Tabua!" "Tabua!" "Tabua!" "Tabua." "What did you do?" "That is your fault!" "We know thatyou stole from us," "but, to show you we are not angry, we want to give you this piece of crocodile meat." "Not only medicine helps against the curse." "There are many possibilities." "Time passes" "One, two, three..." "crocodile dance." "You always hold your breath for longer!" " None is as good as me!" " Liar!" "I can defeatyou." "Judith loves art school and a boy named NicoIas." "Don'twe have to open the mail together?" "." "Yes, but Babu jumps along with the villagers." " I heard he isn't the only one." " Dorisu." "The baby comes!" "Sabine, you have my mail?" "Sabine." "Mom would say now thatwe will loose our teeth because the sugar cane." "We don'twaste anything." " What are you thinking?" " Nothing." "I don't think Auri would be called nothing." "The sun is high at noon." "I swim until a shadow of a crocodile" "that darkens the river bottom." "Downstairs I sleep and dream of fish." "suddenly, a rope holds up in my mouth." "We hold his front legs and bring the animal to shore." "I fight for my Iife, but his ax is stronger." "My body faIIs asleep forever." " Who is that?" " That is our WaIIaby." "Oh!" "Thanks, Auri." "Ahn." "We call it Wabu?" "Yes, we call it Wabu." "Sabine, now I know:" "The good spirit sentyour father to us." "Yes, the good spirit." "It looks like a mouse." "You'II never be a real Fayu." " I don'twanna be any Fayu." "I just live as I Iike." "Then take back the giftyou received from Auri and live a little." "If it is okay now, then also be later." "If later is okay, why not now?" "Because Mom and I are not as confident as you." "In three days we go to Jayapura." "You'II have plenty of time to think about." "Why cannot they build no school nearby?" "It takes a whole day there." " Must it be built by you in honour, is it?" " Good idea." "Auri!" "slow down!" "What is that?" "Our home." "Itwas you who built it?" "When?" "We were always together." "Come, Iet's in." "Auri?" "That's beautiful." "Sabinu." "This one I get to the roof." "Everything will be ready the next time you return from school." "I would Iike not have to go." "Do you remember the test you wrote two weeks ago?" "Bad note." "You too, you too." "Legenda nao traduzida " "Today is our last chance to repeat the rules of the past." "The past tense is a verb in the past." "Something happened and was completed in the past." "The past tense has, therefore, no influence on the present." "This is very important for the past and its use." "Dad, can'tyou steer a little faster?" "." "You won't escape from thejungIe" " But I had six weeks out from here!" "I counted the minutes in Jayapura!" "please, dad!" "Wabu." "Where is Auri?" "Is there something wrong?" "Gohu says the curse has struck." "Even though many years later." "Auri!" "Auri!" "Auri!" "What is happening?" "talk to me!" "Mom, mom, do something!" "Auri?" "Auri!" "Oh!" "Auri!" "Oh!" "Mom, do something, you can help him!" "Do something!" "Auri!" " My God!" " Christian, take my medical bag." "Auri!" "Auri, Auri." "Auri." "I wanted to see you once again." "You'II see me many times yet." "Don't go." "please, please... don't go." "Auri?" "Auri?" "No." "No!" "Auri!" "Auri!" "Auri!" "No!" "No!" "Oh, no!" "Auri!" "I can't stay here, mom." "I know." "Grandma answered." "She offered to take the internship." "Want to go there?" "She would Iike." "You did notwant me to stay with him!" " This is a nonsense." " We wantyou to be happy!" " I hate you!" "I hate everything here." "I want to go to Germany." "I hate thejungIe." "alone" " We write to you." " I justwant to forget everything, dad!" "God be with you." "Apathetic and in chock, I Ieft, at the end of 1989, thejungIe of West Papua." "A part of my Iife was hopelessly lost." "Auri, who survived for so long, was so brave and strong, so eager to live and at the end died of tuberculosis." "As far as I was afraid of a new direction in life," "I was ready and determined to fly alone to Germany." "I did not talk about my childhood anymore and where my roots were." "How do you see the functional relations between f and ff?" "OutwardIy I tried to enter this new world." "There was in my heart only dispair and the feeling not to be, somehow, understood." "How you see the functional relations between f and ff," "Miss Kruger?" "." "So far, it's a mystery to me, as I did my degree." "So I had it in hand and I entered a strange world." "I started to work and to act like everyone around me." "gradually I hear the life, I just am." "It seems as if the Iast spark of forest slowly disappears on me." "Dear Sabine, this letter I write you today is associated with profound sadness." "Chief Boko died." "Right now I am in Danau Bira." "But Boko said to my mother:" ""Why should I wait for KIausu, that I already know"" "Your mother told me that he, near his dead, finally found the peace he wanted all his life." "And, Bine, I hope a day in you life you find the peace and friendship you want so much." "I think of you always and I hold you very firmly." "Your dad." "A dwarf is in the forest, very calm and quiet" "He has a purple blanket" "Say, who wants to be the dwarf which is in the forest alone" "With the purple blanket" "A dwarf is in the forest on one leg..." "I was looking for a perfectworId in life." "But it really exists?" "What is a perfectworId?" "It depends on the color of our skin?" "Of our fathers?" "Or what is in your passport?" "Yeah!" "There is no perfectworId, neither in the forest nor in Germany." "Because the true happiness is not in the perfection, butwith those we live, those who protect us and who are loyal to us." "This is where our heart is happy." "And, for me," "I realized that, always in my heart, I will continue being a jungle child."