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Coming to America, a refugee story | Mohammed Hamou | TEDxTheCountrySchool


so hi guys my name is maja EMU I’m from
Syria
I’m Kurdish from my city called Aleppo
so Syria was great it was so happy
everything was awesome
we were saved but we were so happy like
after a year we started to hear that
word is starting this year
we were so scared like well kind of
scared I’m not scared
we’re only because there’s that words
happy news here at Patterson Airy and we
were not scared because because it’s
kind of too far away from us so yeah
right after in here we started to hear
at a news that the words in closer and
closer to us we were kind of scared and
so it’s one of the mornings we started
to hear out by our God and we heard some
people screaming and like we were
hearing bombs like right next to our
building so we were so scared that that
we packed our stuff real quick and women
into a town called a free that’s like a
Kurdish place where we had some people
there as we know so we went and after
like eight months and we we somebody
told us that to make you guys cross the
border to Turkey we said Erin yeah we
want to do that because offering the
hand electricity didn’t water the water
that we were drinking was from the lake
it was so disgusting at all talked about
it so we said yeah we wanted that so we
went to Turkey and so good
and Turkey we were there was some people
some family there so we went to their
house and we spent there like a week
after after like a week we found our own
house we want to add it was like zero
thing in it there was nothing so my dad
went on about a carpet so he came and
put on the floor after we put on the
floor they had to make art at the
nightmare to me our jackets as a pillow
so it was so tiring so like after couple
Montes
my dad turned out this program called
the UN and that’s like you signed up for
it and it go to another country so we
signed a firing because in Turkey we
couldn’t speak English
I mean Turkish and like it was
everything like it because people who is
telling us go back to Syria don’t make
word our country go back to country a
big war there we were kind of sad so you
signed up for that program right after a
year my dad told us that we got chosen
by the USA so we were so happy because
it was one of our big dreams to go to
USA so we went there I mean like perhaps
do some we have to do some medical stuff
and introduced so after like a year we
found out that our fight is going to go
to America we said we packed our stuff
real quick and we went to move to the
airport and so it was my first time on
their plane so we went to America to to
me go to a to the airport called JFK
we couldn’t sleep
English I was so shy because people
other people’s talking English would be
and I couldn’t speak anything I had to
do a propensity for Siddhanta to
understand
then from there we went to a place
called movie fan
replica animal car we saw some people
only bore cards and says to us welcome
to the humble family we were so happy
you started crying then we went to our
house my mother started to cry because
because it was one of her big dreams to
have a kitchen like that
then I went upstairs and I finally saw
my own bed because attorney I didn’t
have bed too so I was crying still want
like after a couple of days I met this
awesome kidney they don’t hide he was my
first use the first tip that amended
their work man he’s my best friend right
now we went to school each other and we
went to school with each other and like
there is some words that’s a current
understand he helped me with it
so he’s such an awesome kid so I just
want to say something for all of those
kids around the world and the special
our friend because it getting bombed
right now I just want to say that I hope
they live in peace I hope they’re safe
and I hope that I hope that like all of
their dreams come true and all of you
guys dreams come true like-minded Allah
Allah keep dreaming and I hope all of your guys come and dreams come true
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