ARASH (AFGHANISTAN)

FEBRUARY 2019 TO JANUARY 2020

I’m a citizen of Afghanistan. I was born on 5th of June 2002 in Tehran capital city of Iran. Habibi Center, a small place which doesn’t even look like a school at first glance. When I moved to Athens Greece. I couldn’t speak English except a few simple words so I start looking for an English course and one of my friends told me about Habibi center. Then I found out the WhatsApp number, email and their Facebook account so I wrote them from three different ways and Stephanie thought it was three different people. The teacher gave me an appointment and I went there for the very first time. I went in through the kitchen to take a test, it was a small and friendly environment. After the exam she decide to put me in a class which was a bit easy for me and then they changed my class to another class and we start learning English and preparing for Cambridge KET Exam (A2) and a few months later for PET (B1). It didn’t take a long time to become friends with teachers and other students. We were like family, a big family from different countries different cultures and different languages. I remember Stephanie made us do push-up when we spoke Persian in the class and it was the funniest penalty in our class, I miss those days and you guys so much. I hope I can meet you again in my lifetime. Now I am in Switzerland and have opened a new page of my life I can speak English and communicate with people only because of Habibi center and I owe this to Habibi center and our teachers. As all of us know when you move to another country language is the most important thing you probably have to deal with and if you don’t know the language you are kind of dumb (mute or speechless). I just want to thank my teachers Stephanie Martinez, Alex LM, SusanaM.Tercero, Aaron Hackman, Anne Uusitalo and all those who support Habibi Center from around the world Thank you guys so much for every thing you have done for me and for hundreds of refugees who lost their homes their lands who cross the Aegean sea in a plastic boat who run from war and risk their lives to make a better world, a world free of war full of peace and tranquillity.