Izzy and Huria's Story

Today Huria and me are here to edit a piece of work, an audio, that we recorded couple of weeks ago. It is about our story; were
talking about our family. It was mainly about my grandmother, she passed away July 2006 the reason we decided to talk about our grandmother was because we used to care for her as she was physically ill. She was diagnosed with diabetes, and she had a stoke where she was paralysed one side of her body. Which lead to, not speaking or couldn’t walk, that was the main reason we looked after her and because she wasn’t capable of doing anything herself.

It was great fun working together on this project. We didn’t only talk about my grandmother we also talked about all the things we went through when we first moved from Africa, Somali and came to Europe. We had a bad experience throughout life experiences. We had to go through so many awful things, such as lost both our grandparents; we never had enough money to support ourselves, my mom went through a divorce. It was a lot to handle especially when you’re at such young age. The reason I think we are ourselves, today is because we have experienced a lot and we’ve stop blaming ourselves for what happened, and now we finally learnt how to move on.
Of course it’s hard when you lose someone special in life, but the hardest part for us was because we looked after her everyday and is so hard to let go.

Izzy