Berivan Dosky came to London from the Kurdish area of Iraq in 1990, after fleeing the genocide campaigns against the Kurds. She is Director of the Kurdish Housing Association, and is also active as a poet.
It was very scary for me, the first journey I took in the underground, it was--, it was something I--, I didn't do it on my own before and when I was offered a place, a place in Edgware I had to go from Ealing Broadway to, I think Queensbury station on the Jubilee line and from there to take a bus to go to the place where I was offered, a house there. And as I had not taken a journey before in an underground train before, it sounded very complicated for me and it was the first time I take that journey.
And the two kids with me, I didn't know the language and I didn't know the system, I didn't know the people around me even to ask them, 'cause when you don't know the language you are hesitant to ask people.
So it was very scary journey, probably the scariest journey even though I crossed the mountains fleeing from chemical bombardment, fleeing from atrocities, but it was very scary for me the first journey in the underground, but I managed:
I looked at the map very carefully, I focused on it and I went to Queensbury and came back without any mistakes and I was so proud that I managed to came back and bring the children safe without being lost in the way in the underground.
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