Being a Refugee...

During the past few weeks in class we have discussed with our teacher about refugees situations around the world. Our senior class has focussed con the refugee situation going on in Jordan, where refugees keep arriving everyday from Syria and Sudan because of different conflicts. The conflicts are based on civil wars between religious or political differences in the country, like in Sudan where the country is divided in two: the arabic muslims and the african christians, who struggle between each others during years creating serious violent internal problems. We got the opportunity to read in class a very personal essay of a young reporter, Alice Su about the Syrian refugees. With the essay we got a little idea how things were going in Syria and learned how different our lives are from other people around the world. The following quote from Alice Su's article illustrates the situation in Syria, " They shoot you until you get to Jordan. Then you go to Zaatari." This made me realize how different my life is from theirs, they have had to separate from their families, fight to survive, be strangers in a new country and much more, while I have been the only girl in my parents life and lived in stability my whole life. Then today in class Miss Sierra made me think with an example she made about how I didn't know almost nothing about the experiences of the refugees. So I remembered a book I read called The Kite Runner which can relate a lot to what we are discussing in class even though it is a fictional work and takes place in another location. This book talks about two young kids that are raised as friends but separated by religion and social status. In the middle of the book one of them (the wealthy one) has to flee from where he lived his whole life because of the Taliban conflict that was starting. He arrived to a refugee camp and then he was sent to the US. In the book you can see the struggle he had

With his father adapting to a new place and how the contrast was between the two places he was. At first he was from a wealthy family and then got to another place to be one more from the common people. Thats very similar to what the young refugees from Jordan are experiencing. All because of the fault of a conflict they had to live full of fear, separate from their families, integrate in a new place and worse.