️ "Wychowałem się na zanzibarskich ulicach"
Hi! This introduction is about our book that sadly is available only in Polish. For the actual film please skip to 0:38 and enjoy it in English! yeah i'm ready all right so uh it's not yeah it's not easy me to to see the finger pocket alone i have to have friends like two enough two friends one stays on in front of the guy the second one stand beside it depends which pocket i'm going if it's the right pocket or the left prophet the the in front guy is just you know guiding him not go in front and if i go to the right pocket so my friend has to say on the left side it's like it's like they're pushing him back so if he goes back i'm on this side it's easy to me to take it otherwise he or she going to find out because if you like pushing him normally as a human being will be like this watching the guy who puts you so if you look at the guy i'm done and you have to be very quick like you're done so it's easy it's very easy and it's nice sometimes you know when you need money you have to do anything but uh that was you know mind of you know bad minds you know but uh that's the way it is give me respect my name is jafarma bubjuma i was born in zanzibar i'm 30 years old i'm just a recovering addict now i used to drink i used to take pills tablets sometime i used to smoke marijuana sometimes i use it into small carrowing and everything but uh and after that i've been a bad boy i've been like robberies i steal i do all the bad shits you know all the things that the world doesn't allow even the government doesn't allow i normally used to do those things when i'm high you know everyone here yeah you wanna wait let's let's let's check this walk around this other side if you close the door again the life here in zanzibar if you grow in hands of a family to parents mother and father you will be lucky otherwise you you choose your own path but they'll raise you very good they'll send you to school they'll send you to college and they'll find you a nice job to do unless you choose your own path maybe you engage yourself on another staff that's another issue but there are some others like me who never get any opportunity so we grew up on streets i mean for street boys i means we'll do anything you don't give a f to nobody so that's the way it is on the street we steal we lie we use drugs you know we do robberies sometimes just to get money to afford our life that's the way it is on streets before this house was built it was a big place we used to chill and smoke weed over here and drink and also where this picture we draw it by ourselves that picture it looks like a place where we normally see the lot of kids here we see it with cheese and smoke this is the guy with the weed and his eyes totally red like it's full of weed and on hand he has a weed like then broly what neighbors were saying when you were painting their walls they say nothing really they were just like kids you know but they never be angry and they were never angry because we were we were good you know just smoking our weeds and drinking that's it but we never hum on our street we don't want to do harm on other streets but when we are on our street we are good boys but when going on on other streets we are bad boys i started using alcohol when i find out myself like i don't have nothing to do i have nothing to do i grew up on the street as i told you so i used to normally be on the street and see friends of mine smoking weeds they enjoy i thought sometimes there was enjoy so i thought i could use the same things which they used to use so i can enjoy also she beats that girl even if she's your fiance you don't have to beat her that girl's supposed to be beaten you get a nice view yep you know i brought you here why because up here was my first place where i started with my first fix of drug the first day which i tried for the first time the first path was up here the first time it was very nice you know if i remember those feelings you know i felt like you were i was high you know i felt like i'm in usa you know i was with beyonce and rihanna on my left side i thought i had a big big house you know i had all the fancy cars and everything but after like couple of minutes i started vomiting you know i vomit i vomit but in the end it was a habit i have to use in order to survive stretch yeah you said you sell drugs to tourists yeah i used to sell drugs insurance sometimes they ask you that they do they do ask but normally they they go for weed first they asked for marijuana and they asked heroin they asked for cocaine they asked for local beers like gongo you know they asked for prostitutes some others some ladies they asked for men now they asked for like a sex group some others so they asked for some stuff like those like this buildings choose to come and see these buildings because they were built with the first president of zanzibar by his own hands when i have no drugs i feel very painful which i cannot even explain how the pain it is but it's a very very very very sharp pain starting from the mind to all of my body it's a pain which makes me to do anything just to get money and to use just to get money and to drink alcohol i got the money by stealing robbing and lying to people manipulate people where does i was to get money from i remember one day i just woke up and i had this feelings like i have to use i had a lot of pain in my body so i woke up i went outside and it was almost around 2 p.m so and and it was sunday and and as we know like sunday it's it's a day which everybody's inside there's no activities so i was very afraid of sunday i had to do everything and saturday to get money in order to wake up in sunday with money otherwise i have to do anything to get money so i was walking around some couple of street downtown and i saw an old woman sitting down and begging for money and she was a [ __ ] i cannot forget that day so i went there slowly and i passed through her and i saw he he had a cup which was full of money it was full of money and i was like if i had that money i can get everything i want so i was passing through her like a couple of times i was just finding for right moment to take the cup so i was i i took a stone and i was pretending like i'm putting money in the cup so when i took my hand into the cup i grabbed all the money so when i took the money she started screaming on me she started screaming and screaming and screaming people are starting come they come they catch me they started beating me and beating me and they want to cut my leg they took a knife and they wanted to cut the vein but thank god i was lucky they never got the vein so i was injured and i took like eight stitches on this leg it was 26 000 and i lost the money and i had this injury so that was the things which i cannot i cannot forget what i used to do normally to people who use drugs they end up in jail or die they end up dying they end up in jail because if you still you get beaten get beaten you die if you're lucky you find yourself in a jail for a couple of years they beat you up if they catch you red-handed they beat you up maybe the police passes there then you are lucky otherwise they beat you up to death people have changed before if they used to catch you they just sent you to police but now people are sick and tired of being stolen every day so they beat you to death that's it even i also had beaten and people recorded me and they took my clip into the youtube the way i was beaten i saw it i realized that that was addiction when i went to treatment center i had a friend of mine he was also a tourist you know his name was paul he's from holland so i met this guy and he was also an addict so i used to i used to buy for him cocaine and everything every day i i used to go to his hotel and i i get money from him and i go to buy some cocaine for him so before he was going back to holland he asked me if i'm ready to go for a treatment center and i was like i'm ready so if he was the one who sent me to a treatment center then he paid for it and he paid for me for six months straight till now i'm clean for three years and i'm a change man i don't do bad things i don't steal i lie sometimes to get a small money downtown but i don't steal no more i don't do robberies no more i don't take pills no more all the bad shits now i don't do it no more i'm a change man that's it all of my neighbors they like me but before they used to hate me they used to be afraid of me if i passed through their doors they they'd be like okay the ghost is passing now so everybody is a lot you know but did you steal from your neighbors i used to do it but not sometimes when i'm thirsty of my alcohol i used to do it but i was i felt very sorry when i talked to them very very sorry and i come back and i sometimes i pay them back when i get money because i don't want to believe in i love to live in peace with my neighbors so i was like i i talk to them sometime and i get money i buy the stuff if it's a phone or something i buy the cent phone i bring it back but maybe after six or seven seven months understand yeah did they forgive you yes they do they do forgive me that's why they laugh with me now they enjoy with me now they do everything with me now i work freely you know freely doing everything freely with my life now i work like a king you know i'm happy with everything did you give him money i give 500. he normally comes home and take the the the rubbishes you know yeah so when i see him i give 500. people in zanzibar are sharing a lot when you have money you share a lot with other people right you don't keep it to yourself i mean not just you but all people right yeah that's the way it is because uh it's not like every day comes to you i understand today is you another day somebody else so when you're broke you'll be given money because you used to give yourself to another friends your money you don't have to keep it by yourself you try to share with everybody if you have you don't have then fine but if you have you can share with everyone everyone who ask you if you have enough you share with him if it's not enough you say it's not enough and no one will be angry because you give him some time so when you don't have he understands like now he doesn't have it's the way it is in zanzibar my living how i make a living how do i earn money now it's just on the tourism that's it i'm not a professional tour guide but i normally go to stone town searching for the tourists try to approach them because a lot of tourists now they think like if anyone goes to them he needs money and that's true but it's not like all the people who goes to them they need money so i normally approach the tourists try to talk to them try at least to get to know to each other and sometimes they end up need something they end up to want to know something so that's the way it is to me i took them to places i show them things which the professional tour guides doesn't show them i show them those stuff that's where that's how i get my money but i'm afraid of the season when the season comes down i don't know where we get money so i'm trying harder to find another job so at least i could get some money on another way but for now i'm just say to a guy who is not profession coming eight eight point seven it's big no tv no nothing only lights so if they can survive with eight units for a week who built this house this was my grandmama's house then my dad inherit this and now it's me and samiras now it belongs to me and my young brother samir i don't like to take people inside my house because what what what is in my house remains into my house it's not supposed to be taken outside nobody has to see how we live how we survive because it's our privacy that's why there's houses people when they live in the house they have their own secrets in the house so that's why i normally don't bring everybody into my house do you know that many people will see that in video yeah it's it's okay it's okay but i meant the localis the locals and it's like you're lucky i can say you're lucky you understand it's lucky so you're welcome anytime because it's you like a family to me now so you're welcome anytime anytime this is your home you want to sleep here you come you sleep what do you do when it's rain here i have to be honest they just shift i used to shift from here to here there is too many huh too many holes so we used to shift just yet at the school you know it was at least here i can't sleep he sleeps in the bed as well anyway he sleeps anywhere anywhere even when you're in downtown you walk with him maybe he tells you like i have to have a seat and if you let him sit he sleeps that's a good skill if you wake him up he's or then he takes a walk normally like a normal person he wants to cook right now i gave him that two i gave him like two thousand so i don't know what he wants he wants to cook he cooks himself that age he cook himself everything and his food is very delicious i normally eat his food rather than my mama's food in zanzibar when the head of family is gone the big brother is taking care of everything and i'm the big brother so this is my responsibility like my my father has gone and i'm the and i'm the small lion now so i have to take care of my family and who else if i decide to go my way where would my mama get food where would my young brother get food so whether i like it or not i have to i have to and they depend on me and i'm happy for that i'm happy because before they were to me i was nothing to them i was nothing i was just an alcoholic i was just a stupid guy you understand but now if they don't see me for one day they will be like where's where's jafar where's jeff what's happened to him so i'm happy for that and i'm happy like i'm coming home with a bunch of you know a lot of stuff you know to keep in the kitchen like okay now i see my young brother is eating my energy i'm happy for that you understand and because i know what i do he sees he sees what i do and at the end he will do the same to me days change you understand it might come a day i might get sick i don't know my my tomorrow's here because this is today so i have to get busy for today yesterday is gone i don't even to think of yesterday but today is here so i have to get busy for today okay i have last question right now okay can you tell me honestly why did you agree for this video i agree because i know there's a lot of people outside suffering just like me i believe it's not only me we have this kind of situation tough situations critical situation it's not only me there's a lot of people struggling out there and they might be losing hope you understand so uh i'm trying to tell them like they don't have to lose hope their life is there they don't have to lose hope before the five minutes miracle happens to me there was a miracle happens to me and there is another life they don't have to to quit they don't have to lose hope no more they just have to stand up and accept the life as it is if you're an if you're an addict accept yourself like you're an addict but being an addict is not like the the world has end to you no you can change and it can be a changeman and do different things and people would forgot all of the bad things that you have done and you will be a good man or a good woman and get started a new life it's that fresh life you open a new chapter and you do your things like normally people does so i believe like if you really want to change you can change yourself and nobody else nobody will tell you to stop doing those things i used to being told all the time every day but just one day i woke up and i said like okay it's enough and until today i never touch anything so i believe they can also so homeboy whatever you i don't have to lose hope no more the time is there you have to do just relax and change and you can i believe if i can why not you that's it you
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