Forced to Flee  Reflections

1.What is your most memorable moment of the day?

Passport check..things got taken from you

The horrible food  , it made me think how they have to eat it 

Losing my belongings

The walk, tired didn’t know when it would end

Scary in the stretcher

Having to eat rice and soup the whole day

Getting over the fence with one leg

The hut building exercise

Food , I’d never eaten before

Being blind and not standing on a landmine

2. How did you feel when your bag was searched and items confiscated/water tipped out?

Annoyed

Sad for the refugees seeing they lose some of their most precious items

Upsetting they took our food

Sad

Nervous and annoyed 

A breach of privacy and sad 

Insecure and worried that Mrs Fannin would find it

Worried about what was going to happen

Anxious if I was going to get through

Annoyed because we needed it, angry

Stupid it wasn’t their stuff and they just threw it away

Depressed

3. How did it feel to get home yesterday?

Thoughtful that right now when I was in my home refugees were fighting for their lives struggling in a harsh environment and to them I was in luxury

Happy because I was able to eat . Also I could tell my parents what we went through. But real refugees still go through more.

Thankful  to know I have a good shelter and a good life.

Happy because i could eat

Grateful  and realising how much more than some people we have

Happy ,relieved. Sorry for people that go through worse

Amazing, happy to be able to have some real food and upset for the people who had to do what we did for months and months and months

I felt bad for the refugees and also I was very hungry and thankful

I was good because i got to eat some nice food and have a comfortable couch to sit on rather than the ground..I was grateful.

Very weird , odd

Relieved to have some fresh food, knowing it wasn’t rice

It was great being home, amazing to eat great food !

Heaven and relived .Full

Happy to feel comfortable, glad, get to have some proper food 

Happy ,glad to be home

Amazing and very grateful to be home

4. If you lost/misplaced your passport, how did you feel when you realised how important it     was?

          

Felt annoyed and wished I’d taken better care of it , by keeping it more safe, worried and regretful,sad

I didn’t lose it as I appreciated it was the only thing that could get be places

Scary  but I found it again

Worried and stressed

Life or Death

Very important due to the trouble it caused , then annoyed as I found it again.

Very scared

5. What was the hardest thing being a refugee for the day?

Stuck in lines it was so boring

Tired and having to eat horrible food

Eating awful food and entertaining yourself

Not losing your passport

The tent

Not eating that much

Having one leg

Making up a speech for the application for residency for my whole family

Eating the yuck food

Being blind and not being able to see people

We didn’t get much food and we were hungry for the day.

Knowing that I was sent back instead of the others, wishing I’d had a better job and worked harder at the immigration speech

Walking , definitely walking, my feet were getting sore and my knee was aching.

Walking it felt weird knowing they have to walk so much further,sad

Eating the rice and  knowing thats all they have to eat

Not being able to do much

Having little food

6. What are three interesting things you learnt from the day?

What they go through, making a shelter and importance of a passport

We are so lucky, rice is yuck, refugees have to do this every day

Refugees put up with yuck food, hard to entertain yourself when you have nothing

Look after your passport, you can’t buy food, its hard building a shelter 

How refugees feel , hard work, how to make things with a limit

They don’t eat nice food, they can be there for years, so many people in one camp

I don’t like rice!

How refugees feel, how hard it is to get into a country

That people discriminate against you if you are blind, How some are treated. Imagine a week of it.

All the emotions you go through

They don’t get much food, they can live in the camps for years with lots of others

They walk a lot, don’t eat much 

Being a refugee is hard, you never know whats going to happen next, building shelter with stuff is hard

Long waits 

That some people go through this for years

That a lot of people in the world eat even less than this

That we should be grateful for what we have