"Step-by-Step" Diary #2

Working at a refugee asylum for boys under 18

I hoenstly don't know how I should explain my work. It's a social work for the state of Austria which lasts nine months. I've been working there for a month now and it's a very difficult situation with refugees in general. A lot of the boys are traumatised because of the long way they took from for instance Afghanistan. Everyone gets along with it on his own way and some don't which is quite sad.

Ignorance and stereotypes

I got the feeling that a lot of people are brainwashed by the media, because so many citiziens of my town are such jerks with their behavior towards refugees or other people in general. They have such bad opinions about them, which I don't understand. Instead of judging others how would it be do get to know them? But whatever, there are some human-beings who are keeping my faith in humanity up.

If you want to know more about my work, let me know in the comment section below and I will write an extra entry about it. :)

No friends brought more value towards my life

I had a lot of friends in the past and at the age of 17 my life changed a lot and so did my relationships with those people who I thought were essentiell for my life, but it turned out they weren't, so I had only a few friendships afterwards, who I kept like little treasures in my heart. Only a few weeks ago I found out for myself, that even those friends where not as good for me as I thought. I feel quite sad about it, but there are no such thing as "friends".