Dozen Students and Colourful Posters

Salt Sausuan Hussein: A few students respond by repeating the phrase out loud, according to Hamilton Spectator. Others quickly take down notes. More than a dozen students, both eager and reserved, watch their professor scribble notes on a whiteboard surrounded by a collection of colourful posters listing the basics of verb tenses, numbers — both cardinal and ordinal — days of the week, months, and human anatomy. "The policeman makes our people safe," the teacher reads aloud to the class, pointing to every word on the board as he reads. The evening English-lecture is fittingly centred around jobs — a commodity in short supply for Syrian refugees. "Flour!" shouts one student. "Water," says another. "Salt!" Sausuan Hussein, 36, shouts as the class moves on to cover the profession of chefs, and the teacher tangentially asks his students to recall the ingredients for making bread. She knew nothing about the country, but everyone she asked told her it was a place she could be free. Hussein had fled Aleppo, Syria for Lebanon a few years ago before the United Nations finally asked her if she wanted to come to Canada in January. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.