Discuss your impressions of yesterday's refugee assembly.

I felt sad and sorry for them. When they told their stories, I finally realise the hardships and pain that they have to go through to escape from their country and live in another. I also realise how many cruel people can take advantage of these refugees so they can gain profit. Their stories made me want to do something to help every one of them. I feel as though I have not done enough and should do more to help them through these things. Their stories touched me as each story was different yet equally sad, and they have the same will, to survive. I find them very brave to be able to say these things when I know that it is very hard to tell people the bad things in their life. I also feel that they remain extremely strong and resilient no matter what happens to them, that they can still look at the bright side at the worst of times. I now realise that how lucky we are, able to get a good education and live a happy life while there are people out there suffering all the pain the society throw at them. I feel angry at the people who take advantage of them, thinking how cruel all their actions are, and not thinking about how the refugees feel. I can't imagine myself leaving my family and everything to try and escape my home country, and finding the place I escaped to was not what I expected at all. I also felt disturbed by the fact that they are still not treated well and were looked down even though they moved to another country. In the end, I realise what is happening in this world, and that every little action can change one person's life.