
JASMIN (SYRIA)
AUGUST 2016 TO MAY 2018
I am Jasmin and I am from Syria. Right now I live with my family in the south of Germany. Everyday I and my siblings go to school and our life is going well, but 3 years ago, I was 15 years old, and it wasn’t like this. I was with my mother, big sister and 4 brothers is Greece. We were in a village where we lived in a big camp with many people who wanted to travel to another country like us but we couldn’t travel because the border between Greece and Germany was closed. It was a very bad life because we lived in a tent and we couldn’t go to school. It was cold then but we didn’t give up. My brother met a young woman who made a place to teach young people how to read and write because there were too many people who didn’t know how to read in their mother language. From the beginning I heard that she made bread for people who didn’t have money, then she made a place, which is called Habibi Center. I didn’t go there but my brother went because he needed to go more than me. After 4 months, I started to go and learn English and Maths. I learned how to read and write in English and so many funny things. But luck wasn’t with us because she planned to move the school to the capital of Greece. In that time we couldn’t change our place because of our organisation. I was sad but it wasn’t the end, don’t stop reading. After 4 months our organization told us that we have to go to the same city where my teacher was. I was happy to hear that. We changed our place to the capital city of Greece. My teacher rented a house there and started to teach English. She had so many students from all the world. Some other teachers wanted to teach there too. I can’t explain how friendly and lovable they were. In short, they are the best people I met in my life. After the hard times, I was enthusiastic to learn more English but it was nicer when I met a friend who wanted to learn too. She was Bushra and she is the same age as me and she also came from Syria. We improved our English very fast that’s why we did B1 together. Before she came to that class I did the A2 exam with other students. Every day I had 2 hours with students who were in the same level as me. Some of them had school before that course but they came because they liked to have lessons with our teacher. I will never forget what I learned from her and I am going to do the same thing as her one day and help people. There are too many things I would like to tell you about but it’s going to be too long. I admire people who think about other people.