CORE Strenghten Your Life Skills: For Teenagers and Young Adults – English

Unit 2 – Dealing with discrimination and fighting it: Step 1

Task 1

My experiences as a refugee

  • Think about your personal experiences with being a refugee.
  • Can you recall positive and negative situations? Select one positive and one negative experience.
  • Make a drawing of each experience and take a photo of both.
  • Display your drawing, if you are in a group.

Task 2

Sharing and caring

Take a look at some situations your colleagues shared in the room or in the discussion group. Can you find common things? Can you sort them into categories?

  • Choose one of your situations (positive or negative) which gives the best overall personal impression about the way people reacted towards you being here.
    • Were you satisfied with your own reaction to the situation?
  • Describe this situation, your reaction and how you feel about it in a short paragraph.
    • You can write that paragraph in the text box below.

Task 3

Sharing your situation

Share one of the drawings from «Task 1» and the matching paragraph from «Task 2».

  • At the end of your post, let the others know if you would like to receive feedback to the way you reacted or if you want them to give you advice on how you could react in such a situation in the future.
  • If you like to give some advice or feedback to others, you can do so as well.
    • Please be kind and positive!