it's been
a hell of a journey so it started at the
end of 2012 when the syrian regime
committed
one of the the largest massacre at the
time but sadly yeah what happened in
syria have changed me
forever you know i don't want to also
this happened to someone else
so that's why we're doing this tour in
berlin
my name is i come from syria
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they can learn about germany through
syrian eyes and have
insight about both german history and
syrian history
my civil war broke out in the year of
2011
i was doing some citizen journalism my
sibling
who was just a citizen journalist as
well
and sadly he was captured and he was
tortured to death
i had to flee and left everything behind
then i had to actually find a smuggler
to help me get out of the country
so you have to pay like uh 1500
american dollars to secure a place on a
very packed thingy so i just decided to
swim
with another friend so we bought some
life jackets
uh flippers and a laser pin and we
started swimming by the sunset
a point called sesame and izmir
all the way to pius island and
in greece we're losing power and
energy and i was like almost giving up
at some point
after eight hours of swimming i was
rescued
almost by the greek was guard
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so i ended up in a refugee camp i
learned some intermediate german
and started to teach myself english in
germany
this gives me hope actually i like to
tell people visiting the tours that you
know
five years ago i was at that point
and now i'm here giving workshops and um
finishing a degree in in politics
and i'm applying to a master degree uh
in international criminal law i'm trying
to achieve something
uh so you know like never give up
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