a long way gone ch. 19-20

These chapters got better.  This book isn't all gruesome and disgusting.  I was so happy that he got to live with his uncle.  It must have felt so good to know that he was living with a family again.  It was so sad when Ishmael told us that his family wouldn't accept him, so he had to back to the front lines.  Did he survive?  I want to know.  What happened to Alhaji?  I wish I knew.  The good-bye was sad because of the emotion between these boys.  I don't understand way he never saw Esther again after that day.  His new family couldn't have been more welcoming then what they were.  The dance at the pub was so sweet.  I love it how how a girl just drags him into the dance.  I think it would have been hard being asked those questions about his past.  Id wouldn't have liked having the girls break up with me because I wouldn't answer a question.  It's good that he can tell people about his story of the war.  I found it amusing when he was describing an elevator.  The jokes that his uncle makes are a little weird.  I don't see the humor in them.  It's very strange how sometimes we hear things about someplace that aren't that true.  His vision of New York wasn't like how he imagined it.  I don't think that our food was that bad, but apparently Ishmael thought so.  I love the connections that he makes with people.  THe comment about the women's coat was funny.