When we were 10 years old, one of our friends said that he had heard the adults say that Aleppo was going to turn into a war zone in less than year, and we felt such fear in our stomachs. We said, ‘No way, that’s never going to happen.’
But soon after that, our parents told us that they were applying to migrate to Australia. That night, we were so distraught, we were crying into our pillows. We felt there was no way that we could leave all our friends and our entire family to go to a country . . .