Swim for your life what a extremely different life Yusra Mardini has had to me I have never had to swim for survival for a better life. Yusra Mardini is a refuge from Syria. She is also a olympic athlete. During her flight from Syria she made the dangerous sea crossing between Turkey and Greece at one point swimming for her life when the motor of the boat failed. There were 130 people on the boat. They were hitting and falling over the top of each other. It would not have been a fancy boat or a big boat. Yusra Mardini said, in one of her messages ¨ Believe in yourself and don't give up¨ I think everybody should try and live up to this quote.
How cool it is to have refugees that have been encouraged to compete in the Olympics. The current 37 refuge Athlete scholarship holders include the 10 athletes who were part of the first IOC Refugee Olympic Team Rio 2016 13 new individual athletes, and a group of athletes preparing at the Tegla Loroupe Refugee Training Centre in Kenya. Yusra Mardini is one of them and I hope I see her competing in her swimming events when I watch the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. All are being assisted by Olympic solidarity through its Refugee Athletes Support Programme.
Syria is considered one of the most dangerous places in the world this is because of the civil war that started in 2011. As many as 475,000 people have died and in the conflict millions of people have been forced to exile. It is suggested to not go to Syria at the moment. Syria is a war zone, and peace seems as far away as at any time since war began in 2011.
Thursday, December 19, 2019
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Kia ora Benjamin, this is Kieryn from the Summer Learning Journey.
ReplyDeleteYou have done an excellent job creating this blog post about Yusra Mardini and retelling her story!
You should be extremely proud of the effort you have put in to this post, and I am so impressed with the amount of detail you have included.
It really sounds like she went through a lot just to escape the fighting, only to end up in a worse situation. I could never imagine what it would be like to be in such a situation, however she was exceedingly brave and ended up saving the lives of so many!
Have you ever been in a situation where you had to rescue someone or something? If so, when?
It is so great how after all the trouble in her life she was able to move past it and chase her dreams of becoming an Olympic swimmer!
Do you enjoy swimming?
Swimming used to be one of my favourite things when I was younger, however I don’t do it nearly enough now!
Keep up the great work!
Nga mihi