Bosnian Dining Hall Workers

After years of going to the dining hall at my high school, I never knew where the staff was from. I knew they were foreign; they all had the same strange accent but were very kind people. I overheard my friends talking one day about someone in the dining hall staff and I asked what she had said. I was very surprised when I heard that a majority of those kind people were refugees from Bosnia during the genocide. Apparently, one of the men was very open to talking about it, but I never got a chance to speak with him.

I know in this blog a lot of times I get angry at the United States for not doing much about genocide. I am still not happy, even with what happened in the Bosnian genocide, but to see people such as Enver living happily and appreciating everything he had gave me a little hope. I have so much respect for places like my high school that hire many refugees, and I am glad that some places and people make an effort to give them a lifestyle they were once familiar with.

My friend's father is also a refugee from Bosnia and I think that it's great that he was able to escape the violence and come to the United States where he was able to meet a woman who he could be happy and have a beautiful family.