Chapter 19 This Is How I Am

• On a clear sunny day, smoke started ascending to the sky from the rock platform.
• I rolled up my sleeves as I chopped apart some wooden branches. After that, I tied them together with long rattan vines to build the frame of our house.
• Tina and Allie, together with the other four women, poured soil into a wooden mold that I made. They then poured it out again after flattening it, and that was how they were shaped into tiles.