Day 2

What had the biggest impact on you today?

“Today during the refugee workshop when the guards put the refugees in the shade while they waited, but because the refugees didn’t understand why they were in the line anymore they got scared and desperate and started planning an attack. It was all because of a language barrier”- Emma

“The border crossing thing because it stripped away all my privileges (being a straight white middle-class male). When I got my privilege back by getting into the country I tried to help others.  But it was weird to think I only did that after I had gone through it myself” – Fergus

“I know it was just a game (the refugee simulation but everyone had so many ideas to start a revolution and to try and help others in and to make border crossing safer and fairer for the refugees. They actually had so many ideas to improve but yet nobody’s listening”- Bertam

“The refugee simulation because it was completely different talking about these topics as opposed to feeling them. I just realised how bad I felt just playing this game, can never be as awful and scary as how the actual people going through this feel” – Jenny

“How easy it was to change how someone feels with just a smile” – Cornelia

“In my workshop my group kick me because they are bullies and I am the victim. They have fun and I cry” – Ruben

“In my workshop we spent 3 hours talking about sexual orientation and I found out what the word intersex means”- Alfred

What was the funniest thing that happened today?

“I ate like 7 sponge cakes for lunch. But at breakfast I fell asleep on the table… I don’t think anyone noticed. But I guess now they’ll know because itll be in the blog…” - Oscar

“When Lorcan got into Karawane and then nearly fell over on the way in”- Fergus

“Actually, the funniest thing was when it started raining and hailing because the hail stones were huge and I ate one… it tasted like dirt” – Bertram

“Jim” – Jenny

“Playing foosball with jim and jenny” – Cornelia

“I was trying to make friends with Alfred but I thought he was from Ireland when he actually told me he was from an Island. I told him how I loved loads of stuff about Ireland and maybe 10 minutes later we realised we were talking about different countries” – Ruben

“Instead of saying – its ok to be gay- Beatrice said – its gay to be ok” - Alfred