Today we are in the Che museum. I saw his birth certificate and books he read as a child. Che was a very good rugby player. I saw his camera and his bracelet. He had a gun and he used a lantern for his guerilla. I saw his beret that he used in his early years. He died in 1967 in Bolivia and my dad was born in that year. We saw his memorial and his monument. First he graduated as a nurse and got a certificate. Once, Fidel and Che were having a battle against the president of Cuba, Batista. Che had only 19 people on his side but Batista had 350 people going by train to give weapons to their team. But Che had a great plan to defeat the 350 people on batista’s team. Che and Fidel with their 19 soldiers went to the track and that’s when Che started telling his soldiers his plan. His plan was to destroy the track so the train would be destroyed and the 350 people and weapons would hopefully belong to them but some soldiers would die. There were only 5 carriages to bring them in. Che used a bulldozer and lots of molotov cocktails, and they are glass bottles with petrol inside and a rag rolled up into a scroll shape and they put that in, half in half out and then they set it on fire and threw them into the carriages and then they should explode so the glass cuts and the petrol makes the fire. And that was amazing because if you were a leader like Che and you had 19 soldiers and you defeated 350 people you would feel amazed. The rest of the people surrendered and they were then very sad and also Che got all of those weapons for himself. Che’s real name was Ernesto but people wanted to call him Che.

(typed up by Omar’s dad directly from Omar’s original notes)