A talk with immigrants
The two immigrants from Afghanistan, Monir who’s 22 years old and Said who’s 19 years old told us their story.
The two immigrants from Afghanistan told us their story and how it was to come to a new country.
By Frederikke Rosell Heisel, Oscar Seamus Carrig and Emma M. B .Thrane
Today the 4th October, 20 students from the local language school came to visit Flakkebjerg Efterskole. We had the chance to talk with two of the students, Said and Monir. After a quick tour we sat down and talked with the two boys.
Monir told us that he moved from Afghanistan three years ago because of the war and Taliban. “I left Afghanistan because there were a lot of political problems there”
Said had the same reason to leave his country, “I have been in France, Italy, Greece and many other country’s before I came to Denmark. I traveled with train, car, boat, on horseback and sometimes I even had to walk”
Before they arrived in Denmark Said went four years to school in Afghanistan while Monir worked with his farther selling nature medicine. Both boys got caught by the police when they came here and got put into asylum camps while they had to wait for their cases to get accepted so they could stay in Denmark. When they got caught, the police took their fingerprints and interviewed them. The rooms at Flakkebjerg reminded the boys of the rooms in the asylums camps.
They both live here in Denmark alone while their family’s still lives in Afghanistan, and they misses Afghanistan though they have kept their culture. The boys both run and swim every week with their friends. They both have Danish friends even though there’s things in our culture that seems weird to them.
Monir:” some of the things that are different from Afghanistan is that boys and girls study together and that you can be in a relationship with someone without getting married.” Said agreed and tells us, “It’s weird that you can have children without being married and that you can get divorced. You don’t go to church every day like we do.”
Though they both like living in Denmark Monir have experienced some of the prejudice that people have. “I was walking along the road at night time when a car with two Danish guys came by, and the guys inside the car threw eggs at me and gave me the middle finger.” Of course they had their own prejudice about Denmark, like if the economy would crash like it did in for an example Greece.
Both boys wants to return to Afghanistan when there once again is peace.