![]() ![]() She wrote letters in her notebook and even detailed which of her belongings she would leave for her loved ones in the event of her death. Her family had not been pleased that she was travelling back to Afghanistan and this resilient woman worried about how her parents, her partner Paul and her friends would cope with her disappearance. With a bucket for a toilet, no ability to wash and light from a waning lamp she had nothing to do but write in her notebook and converse with her captors as she prayed for release. It is hard to imagine being held underground, subsisting on creme sandwich cookies and juice boxes for almost an entire month. ![]() Fung attempted to journalize her experience and her account of getting to know her captors as she prayed for release. This detailed account of being snatched at gunpoint following an interview at a refugee camp and described her captivity in a rudimentary hole underground. As part of the Acrostic August Challenge, I read Under the Afghan Sky which is a memoir detailing the 28 days that CBC reporter, Mellissa Fung spent in captivity in Afghanistan. ![]()
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