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Lets trade refugee stories
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 10:41 am
by qoraxeey
sisters iyo brothers
Lets share each other refugees stories
How did U come out the war in Somalia ? how did U end up in the West ?

Re: Lets trade refugee stories
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 10:46 am
by qoraxeey
haaye baal ??
im writting mine into a summary
Re: Lets trade refugee stories
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 10:47 am
by DisplacedDiraac
Lool@ the title.
I was only like one.. too young to remember.
But my journey to the west was pretty easy and smooth. Alhamdullah.
As soon as the war started, we went str8 to Ethiopia were we stayed in a hotel for a few short months than we came straight to the UK. My abo has been living in the west since the age of 17, so he just applied for us and a few relatives and it was obviously granted. Pretty easy uh.
Re: Lets trade refugee stories
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 10:48 am
by qoraxeey
Shawty_landhaan
omg u made it out the easy way
hehe mashallah
Re: Lets trade refugee stories
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 10:54 am
by DisplacedDiraac
Alhamdullah we sure did. But I might have made it sound more rosey than it actually was..
I was actually only a few days old when our region was attacked. So we were in Somalia for over 9months *during the civil war*, mostly in the miyii (on the back of my dear camel)..
What's your story?
Re: Lets trade refugee stories
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 10:55 am
by qoraxeey
abaayo
im wriiting mine haada .. i will post it soon
now had luck to be alive .. it was a long journey kind of .lool
Re: Lets trade refugee stories
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 11:00 am
by DisplacedDiraac
qoraxeey wrote:
now had luck to be alive ..
No. It just wasn't your time to go!
Loong journey miyaa? Miskeena
Do you remember it, or did your parents tell you about it?
Re: Lets trade refugee stories
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 11:02 am
by qoraxeey
why U calling me miskeena

im not a poor person .lol
a lil bit
Re: Lets trade refugee stories
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 11:06 am
by DisplacedDiraac
Looool. Why do some people get offended by that word
Miskeena as in 'Aww Bless you'..
Re: Lets trade refugee stories
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 11:18 am
by qoraxeey
HAYEE WHO ELSE ???
mise you all were born in the west miyaaa

Re: Lets trade refugee stories
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 11:21 am
by Hyperactive
no some of us born ba'ad qahi, .lol
Re: Lets trade refugee stories
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 11:23 am
by nomadicwarlord
I'm still stuck in Mogadishu.
Re: Lets trade refugee stories
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 11:27 am
by yunis09
qoraxeey..unlike westshawty's story...our one was a nightmere...we got caught behind enemy lines we had to fight our way out, then crossed many boarders and seas..then ended up in london..and thats were we became refugees.
Re: Lets trade refugee stories
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 11:32 am
by abdisamad3
well qoraxeey, I was living the good life in muqdisho untill the hutu's started their uprising and the civil war came they looted everything from our house including my clothe's and shoe's.When they where done looting us all I had left was a lousy shorts.Then I decided to leave the city since we lost everything, so I went to kismaayo from there I found a smuggler with a boat who could smuggle us to nairobi halfway in the middle of the sea the old boat started taking in water and everyman had to swim for his life. In a shark infested water in the middle of the night, I had to swim all night in dark cold water untill I reached the coast in the early morning,then I had to hitchhike all the way from mombasa to nairobi so I did, from there I met an old scandinavian women who was working for a relief organisation,so I told her my history and asked her to find me a couple in her country that was willing to adopt a young man like me so she searched and finally she found a couple that would adopt me as their own son, after few month's of paper filling checking and aprovals. I was on my way to Europe flying in first-class..

Re: Lets trade refugee stories
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 11:35 am
by Hyperactive