SaveTheKids (SaveSyria'sKids)

In Human Geo today, I came in to find my desk turned around and I was congratulated on turning my back against everyone? Something like that. Anyways, we watched a really sad and deep video today. It was about a little girl, maybe 9, who seemingly had a good and innocent life, until there started to be a lot of violence, bombs, gunshots and everything. She and her mom actually had to leave their dad behind, and they got sick, lived as refugees, and in the end, were suffering from so much pain, post-traumatic stress, and the loss of everything they had. I loved the way the video was put together because it showed everything almost like she was holding the camera, so you saw her and what was going on around her. Each part was only shown for like 2 or 3 seconds, so we re-watched it and analyzed each part and the hints it left throughout the video, and the symbolism at the beginning and end with the birthday cake was so sad but had a great meaning. The actors didn't look like your regular Syrian Refugees, which in a way represented how it could happen to anybody. We also had a really great discussion about the whole refugees coming over thing, and it's a very complex concept, and I hope we are able to come up with a solution to this one day. (Oh and also Matt got compared to a terrorist because he kind of looked like him, he even said the terrorist looked like his family O.O)