MeddelandeNick: That is terrible and I will keep them in my thoughts and prayers that they really will be able to live in peace. They look like a beautiful family. BTW, Your girls are beautiful too. I see they take after their Mom LOL......J/K. Will you and your family be able to to at least keep in touch with the other family??? Hope so. Great friends are hard to come by. Chuck
----- Original Message ----- From: Niclas Runarsson To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 4:45 PM Subject: [VFB] Prayers needed... Prayers needed... For 20 years I have lived in a neighbourhood of which a large part is used to house refugees while processing the asylum matters. I have had LOTS of neighbours from all over the world. Many have moved in... and moved out. Most of them avoid you and stick to their own nationality. Many also show a bad behaviour... doesn't respect anything at all. But my latest nextdoor neighbour has been something else. It's an Albanian family from the south part of Serbia. This family has been the kindest, most helpful, most willing to be friends with everyone(!) etc. etc. of all neighbours I've ever had... including the Swedish ones. We have spent so much time together that they have started to feel like family. In April the decision was made. "Serbia is safe... there's no need for you to stay here." Of course this desicion was made by a Swede, who knows nothing about the fact that life of an Albanian Serb isn't the same as for a Serbian Serb. That's more a life of needing eyes in the neck if you step outside your door... and if you stay inside, still having to pray that it's not kicked in by Serbian Police (or someone paid by them). Serbia wasn't nice to Albanians in Kosovo. NATO drove them back, but they still don't treat the Albanian part of their own population as humans. Yesterday we were invited for dinner. Last one. Very emotional since we all knew what was going to happen today. Their bags were packed. Today it was time. Final goodbye. Very tough... I can't remember the last time I cried this much. A man I have known for barely a year, who I often needed help from one of his children to communicate with, who has called me 'my brother' almost from the start... it actually felt like saying goodbye to a brother. Prayers are needed here. They have told me a lot about why they left in the first place. A certain degree of communication problems have always been present in our discussions. But based on what I HAVE understood, I can say that it was probably for the best that I didn't understand every single detail of it. /Nick The Ismaili family: Shenur and Rukije Adeline and Ali (between my daughters Emelie and Klara) T6/ Bajram and Bunjamin (the two standing up) Armend, 2 years old... cutest toddler I've met. Teresa giving Armend 10-20 last goodbye kisses... No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2425/5032 - Release Date: 05/29/12 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com
