Yesterday was the big day of the ATAR/ VCE performance issue, and the state as always had a lot of full marks or a single-family full score.
Although our hero today is also a high achiever, but more notable, his identity is now in the whirlpool of public opinion, refugees.
Even as he slept, Saad Al-Kassab 's ears continued to roar around his hometown mortars, a painful experience he would never forget.
Saad's childhood, which seemed no different from the average child, went to school, played football, went out to play, and went home to dinner, all of life, until 2011, when the "Arab Spring" filled his hometown, Syria, into the abyss.
(pre-war Saad)
A year later, as a result of the war between the goverment army and the * organization, Saad's school had become the home of innocent refugees, and the one who loved learning did not want to break his studies and instead went to school with his mother at home. One side and brother Omar joined the Boy Scouts to deliver food and water to refugees in the refugee camps for their own countrymen.
But the war did not end as they had hoped. In 2013, the captain of Saad's Boy Scouts was captured by the dictatorship goverment, died after being tortured, and his brother, Omar, was arrested and bruised.
(Saad and older brother Omar (left)
Their parents finally realized that for every extra day they were here, their children, including themselves, were in danger. They fled from Syria to Lebanon, from Lebanon to Egypt, and finally to Melbourne, Australia, with the help of an uncle.
(Saad (left) and father)
In fact, the path of the flight was more alarming, the crowded people and the checkpoints of the cattle, and the Saad family. Luckily, in 2014, the family arrived in Melbourne for a good time.
(central Homs, Syria, 2013)
But problems ensued. Growing up in an authoritarian Arab country, the Saad brothers could hardly speak a word of English, had no way to live, learn, or integrate into society here.
(Saad before the war broke out)
But the brothers soon found a way to learn English: "Question Time," a media-related political program that ABC often broadcasts.
"they use induced languages, and they speak clearly, they speak very slowly, and they are very suitable for us to learn this language and understand this society."
(Arabic-English Dictionary for Saad)
The brothers were turning over their old dictionaries, watching TV carefully, day after day, and now, two years later, English was no longer an obstacle to them.
(the brothers and the Governor of Victoria (first from left) Daniel and Congressman Anthony)
But Saad's sufferings don't seem to be over yet, as news of the deaths of former classmates or friends in Syria continues.
(Saad (third right) in fifth grade, one of his classmates has lost contact.
"when he closed his eyes, he seemed to be sitting in front of me, but as soon as he opened, I had to face that he was dead."
Saad (left) and his closest friend, now killed in the bombing)
The sad news once put a lot of pressure on Saad, but he turned grief into motivation, began to study harder, and began to work hard for those friends who left.
This year, Saad's ATAR, which studied English for just two years, scored 96.65 well, making it the top 5% of students in Victoria. Monash University offered him a full scholarship to continue his studies.
He chose to study medicine, he said. Being a doctor is not just what my mother has always wanted, but I want to save more lives through my own hands.
(photo of the brothers with King Carl XVI of Sweden)
In fact, the reason we hate refugees has nothing to do with where they come from, what they look like, what language they speak. The public security and social problems caused by the influx of refugees are the reasons why we have always criticized and rejected them. If every refugee can work as hard as Saad and be kind to others, then why should we turn back our inner goodness?
He said that the Lord was a descendant of the country's immigrant, and see what he did to him.
Come on, Saad~ heard that hard-working people don't get too lucky,