Safana, 19 years old

»I have been living in the camp for two years now and since the beginning I have been attending a school. Now, I'm in the ninth grade.
The hardest thing for me at school is that it is so hot there and I often feel hungry.
Most of all, I miss my old friends from Sinjar.
I'm happy when I meet my teachers and my new friends here. The best I've learned so far is mathematics because my teacher has explained it to me so well. Science is most difficult for me, I just don't like the subject. My sisters help me with the homework.
All teachers here are like father and mother to me, so I have no favorite teachers.
In addition to the school, I still get keyboard lessons and occasionally I participate in painting classes, too. Sometimes, I sing in the camp for myself and my friends.
I remember very well our old neighbors in Sinjar and how we baked Nanê Tenûrê* there.
I hope that Daesh will be destroyed and disappear and I can go back home again.«

* Nanê Tenûrê is a flat bread cooked by sticking it onto the walls of a tandoor oven
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