Hubert Hanika

"We went to Libya, and I just didn't know a single thing about it. We didn't have the opportunity or the time, a book or something... well, we didn't know anything. We came there and for three months we did nothing. There were no students in that school. Only three months later, they managed to find some students somewhere, God knows where, and these guys came in, or boys maybe, in their twenties. For the first time in their lives, they saw a desk. There was this big workshop. 140 pupils. And after those three months, we started teaching them. But with them it was like, 'we'll ride a camel for three days, then we'll stop', millimeters and centimeters didn't mean anything to them. And after we had been teaching them that year, we went on a vacation and when we came back, more than half of them forgot everything. So they didn't know anything in the end. Well, it was a mess.”

"Well, the situation was quite wild in the beginning. There was this member of the group. His name was Jura. He was a Muscovite. A student. And he kept intimidating us the first time we met them. A bunch of grenades on the table and we weren't allowed to speak. Well, it was kind of interesting, the first time we met. And then, when it all calmed down, it was just routine. Every day, four of them would come to eat, and they'd take some food with them to the woods, for the ones who had to stay there. For the radio operators.”