Shyma

4-6 I’ve seen enough, congratulations England and hard luck France

Fiers d’être Algériens, aujourd’hui et pour toujours. Gloire à nos martyrs, honneur à notre patrie.

Joyeuse fête de l’Indépendance.

Vive l’Algérie !

thought I was taking photos of a summer. I was actually taking photos of a goodbye.

I never knew that summer would be our last one.

I miss the coffee, the radio in the morning, the TV playing in the background, and the comfort of simply being there with you.

university administration? wrong spelling

translator’s office? congratulations apparently i was born in three different countries

hospital? suddenly my name has accents.. extra letters

Every office decides to freestyle it into chayma, chaimae, chaina, chaïma..

And THEN we start the nationality/birthplace where I have to explain;

‘no, i’m Algerian’

‘yes, i was born in Tunisia’

‘no, that does not magically make me Tunisian’

‘and no, i was not born in Algeria either because my own paper literally says Tunisia’

Genuinely… i don’t understand why nobody can just copy and paste the information EXACTLY as it is. like is it actually that difficult 😭 why are we all making this harder than it needs to be? you’re stressing me out and somehow creating extra work for yourselves too..

in my head, its late night, soft shadows, everything a little blurred.

strange how a moment can belong to a place you’ve never been, but somehow feels like it remembers you.

I drift there for a moment and honestly, i don’t mind staying.