#Originally

• What does the phrase "All childhood is an emigration" suggest?

  Childhood involves leaving familiar places
• How do some childhood experiences differ according to the text?

  Some are gradual, others are sudden changes
• What does the phrase "Your accent wrong" imply about identity?

  It suggests feelings of alienation and difference
• What question is posed about origins in the text?

  Where do you come from?
• What does the phrase "the turn of the wheel" symbolize?

  It symbolizes the passage of time and change
• How does the author describe their childhood home?

  As a place with vacant rooms and memories
• What does "shedding" refer to in the context of childhood?

  It refers to losing aspects of one's identity
• What does the phrase "eating worms and shouting words you don't understand" suggest?

  It suggests confusion and a sense of isolation
• What does the author mean by "my tongue shedding its skin like a snake"?

  It reflects feelings of discomfort and change and losing who she is
• What does the author compare their voice to in the classroom?

  To the rest of the students
• What does "I lost a river" symbolize in the text?

  It symbolizes loss of culture and identity
• What feelings does the author express when asked "Where do you come from?"

  Hesitation and confusion about identity
• How does the author describe their adaptation process?

  As a complex and confusing experience
• We came from our ... country in a ... ...

  own red room
• a red room which ... ... the fields, our mother ...

  fell through singing
• My brothers ..., one of them ... , ...

  cried bawling Home
• as the miles ... back to the city


  rushed
• where we ... live anymore


  didnt
• I ... at the eyes of a ... toy


  stared blind
• All ... is an ...

  childhood emigration
• Others are ...

  sudden
• Your ... wrong

  accent
• big boys ... ...

  eating worms
• My ... ... stirred like a ... tooth

  parents anxiety loose
• I want our ... country


  own
• But then you ... , or ... recall

  forget don't
• seeing your brother ... a ...

  swallow slug
• feel only a ... of ...

  skelf shame
• my tongue ... its skin like a ...

  shedding snake
• I lost a ... , ... , ... , sense of first ... and the ... place?

  river cluture speech space right
• ... ?

  Originally
• And I ...

  Hesitate