Movie night

I and my family are volunteering as a support family for two young boys from Afghanistan, who arrived to Finland almost two and half years ago as asylum seekers. They were under-aged when they arrived, and they came alone without their families. It has been really rewarding to spend time with them and try to teach them about Finland, Finnish people and culture. In the beginning we had some difficulties, because we didn't have a common language to share. But nowadays they already know Finnish better, so we can have deeper conversations too. I have learned so much about life in Afghanistan and heard heartbreaking stories. We have sometimes cooked together, so I've also got to taste Persian foods, which have been delicious.

Last weekend we went to movies together. There was Helsinki Documentary Film Festival called DocPoint, where they showed documentary movies from different countries. The boys hadn't gone to movies in Finland yet, because English movies with Finnish subtitles and Finnish movies would still be too hard for them to understand. But now DocPoint had one movie that was in Farsi, a Persian type of language that the boys can understand. The subtitles were in English, so I could understand the movie too. The movie was called Raving Iran, and it was a story of two Iranian boys who played electronic music and arranged secret rave parties in the desert. They then got a chance to play in a music festival in Switzerland, and traveled to Europe. The movie was really interesting, I learned a lot of the culture in Iran. I also got a different point of view to the thoughts that these Afghan boys maybe have. I really want to understand their life here in Finland, because I study to become a social worker and probably will work with foreign customers also. I especially wish to work with young people and teenagers.



If you want to check the movie trailer, it can be found on the movies internet page here. The photo is from the movie.

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