Today I'm leaving Newcastle and I am moving to London.
I have found a place to stay with strangers through
a Syrian Facebook group.
They said it has four walls and a roof, and that's all that I need.
Since I was young, I dreamed of studying in London,
but I never thought it would happen, because of a war in my country.
I believe my future is not in Newcastle.
I really believe that it will be in London.
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I don't know anyone in London.
Maybe you start with the bad things.
After that I can move myself.
I'm here to do something I always wanted to do.
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Everyone would love to, or would dream to, study or stay in London.
People started to say, like, "You can find a job easily.
"You don't need to study.
Just work whatever you want.
"And you will really earn a lot of money."
But it's not easy to live in London.
It's not easy at all.
The transportation, it's too expensive.
I can't pay the payment of the rent.
Today, I went to the job centre.
I was receiving money from the Home Office and it's now stopped
and the job centre, they have to start my benefits.
So, every two weeks they're going to check if I'm looking for a job.
I couldn't prove my address.
Now I can't pay a deposit
and I can't pay one month in advance.
I don't have that much money.
But she told me, "You should find a job.
"I don't know how, but you should find a job.
We can't help in this."
If I am thinking to stop studying and cancel the idea,
could work a lot to send money for my parents.
I already spent all our money and it's not easy just to keep
sitting here without helping them.
Hi.
How are you?
I am actually looking for a job.
Do you think I can find a job here?
Have you any work experience?
Well, my normal job, it's, like, electronic.
OK.
Unless you have a bit more experience
on this work, I'm sorry, but no.
That's fine, that's fine.
Sorry.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
See you later.
Hi.
Hello.
I'm actually looking for a job.
OK.
Do you think it's possible to find a job here?
Well, we're a new shop,
so we're not hiring at the moment.
OK.
OK?
Yeah.
Sorry about that.
No, that's fine.
Have a good day.
Thank you, thank you.
I have read that you are looking for a waiter.
Yeah.
I'm actually, to be honest, I haven't tried before.
We just require a proper experience to be barrista,
cos you need to, like, know how to make the coffee.
Yeah, sure.
Thank you very much.
You're welcome.
Have a nice day.
What kind of job do you think a guy like me can do
except washing dishes or waiter in a restaurant or...?
I'm not saying it's bad to do this, but I didn't used to work like this.
I have no experience about all of this.
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They don't work here.
They don't pay anything, taxes, but the Government,
they give them houses and benefits as well.
I actually was talking with my friends, "What will happen?
"What will happen for me or you?"
Maybe one day they will ask for a referendum for the refugees.
Some amount of people, they are voting against the immigration.
I know that it's their right.
They see people, like, strange people or weird,
random people in their country.
I'm not here for just as a tourist or studying.
I ran away from my country because of the war.
That's what destroyed my country, that people divided.
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I really need a proper job, which it won't be available if I don't study.
The personal statements, I didn't know what should I write.
"I am Syrian refugee," just like that,
or what I should write?
You should explain why you want to study this course and why you
want to study at this particular university.
You don't have any certificates, but you can still explain, like,
you did this for two years and you don't have
a certificate because of the war.
I'm not sure that I can make it well to study again.
But I have to try.
It's better than just to do nothing.
Especially, like, for my parents.
They will like, they ask me to study, not to just...
..work.
They said, "You should study, it will be better for you."
I felt...
..that I will never study again.
You can still try now.
There is still time.
It's better to try, right?
Now I am planning to study.
If I'm accepted, I will get an accommodation, a cheap one,
and I will get the loan to help me to start.
I am young and I am alone.
I have no wife, I don't have children, I don't have family here.
As long as I am alone here, it means that I can do it.
And that's actually the dream of me, what I have dreamed before.