🗣💬 📌Friday, October 6 📌Inchang High School
This time we visited Inchang High School in Guri~ Six refugee speakers met no fewer than 450 students! We had many questions and conversations in the classrooms, and we gathered what stayed with each of them!
🍁 Naim I felt a lot through this event. Dialogue between Korean society and migrant communities opens the way to a multicultural society that is better to live in. Only when the public, especially students, talk so that they know accurately about migration and migrants can we understand each other better. Through this, I think we can change Korean society’s perception of refugees and build a beautiful multicultural society. Because I heard so many wonderful opinions from the students, I came to want to keep taking part in events like this. For change.
🍁 Nangmai The question “Are you happy now?” stays with me. I think it is a simple question but a hard one to answer. I answered, “Not 100 percent.”
🍁 Ra Yeonu What stays with me most is the comparison between Syria and Korea. When I talked about schools in Syria, it seemed hard for the students to imagine. To make it easy to understand, I used North Korea as an example. When I said that life in Syria is that unfree and oppressive, the students empathized. I told the students that I envy them, because I could not attend a school like this. I was also asked about my name. I explained why I chose the surname ‘Ra’ and how I came up with the name Yeonu.
🍁 Rezai It was interesting that the students took an active part in the conversation and were very curious about me. They asked about Afghanistan, and they asked what I am doing in Korea now and what I want to do in the future. They also asked about my family.
🍁 Shaima
Overall, the students responded well. I was happy that the students said my son’s artwork on my postcard was beautiful. One student drew a wonderful portrait of me. One student left a reflection: “The sentence you said, ‘Anyone can become a refugee at any time,’ resonates with me.” During the conversation I mentioned my impressions of the film
🍁 Freddy I once knew nothing about Korea, but I came because it was the only option. If possible I wanted to go to a country where I could speak the language, but the moment I escaped my home country was so urgent that I chose Korea. The reason I told the students this story is that I hope that, as citizens who will lead the future, they will take an interest in the problem of refugees in desperate situations and act.
