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Didi


Aida ("Didi") from Bosnia, 17 years old

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  ...we didn’t go to regular school because we couldn’t, it was too far and parents wouldn’t let their children go that far when the bombing was still there. Then in every, like, four blocks, there was one small basement where children could go to school and one teacher and then you can go to school. It wasn’t like real school, but we had to go if you didn’t want to lose like three or four years.

Then we went to school. Dino actually started his first year of school during the war. He started the first year of school during the war and I finished one year when the war started. We had one teacher and she teaches everything. She teaches math, everything, science, so we didn’t have that much teachers. It was a really small room and a lot of kids. There was one table and like five other peoples around. There was one day that we were in school and the bombing started and we all had to go home, we were running and my mom she was really scared and when she saw us, she was crying because the bombing was there and everything. So most of the time we didn’t go to school. Because of all the bombing. When there is no bombing, we go to school for like two days then we don’t go for like three or four days. I finished three grades, second, third and half of the fourth grade during the war. Then after the war, we started going to the regular school, even though after the war everything was ruined so everything was really low.