The Life of a Refugee

A refugee is forced to deal with situations that most human beings on the planet doe not have to contend with. For example, most people do not have to figure out how to fit themselves and their family into an area that is only three, to three and a half, meters around. Yet they do, and they continue to live in these conditions until they are allowed to return home. 

These are the types of things that I have learned form this blog. I had always known that refugees had many hardships that they had to deal with, yet I had no idea just how many there were. For example, I had no idea just how high the number of refugees suffering from malnutrition was, or how bad living conditions were children in particular. 

In a reflexive sense this cultural experience taught me a great deal about my own life. I learned to be truly grateful for what I have been given. I mean when it comes to personal space in college, it seems as if there is none, but then I read about people who live in a three meter area, with only two meters between themselves and their neighbors and I realized that college housing is not so bad.  Yet, this is only a minor example of what this experience ha taught me. 

I also learned a great deal by relating what I discovered about refugee camps to my knowledge gained in Anthropology class. Items such as personal space, food, fair treatment of people, language, all of these continually popped upped when I thought about refugee camps.

Looking back I could not have picked a better topic for this blog, as I learned a great deal about refugees and their camps, and in learning I was able to create connections to other everyday events and situations.