ok, so traumatic experience, because you moved to skien, a small town in southern norway.ery homogeneous country, about five and a half million people, and in skien, most of the people there were white, hadn't even seen a black person before. and you said that... "that was when i mentally decided i was going to be confident in who i am." what do you mean by that? how did the traumatic experiences fashion your thinking? i think when i was in the refugee camp, even then, things were obviously very difficult, but then everyone looked like me and no—one was being mean to me because of the way that i looked or the way i dressed. so when i came to a very white community, then i realised that, "oh, i'm black and i'm hijabi." and i was very different from what the others were. and i wasn't allowed to be that. and, you know, when you come to refugee in a country, you don't have... you don't have a home, there's nothing in your name and your family have absolutely nothing. we only wore the clothing that we had. so i thought the only thing i have left in this world is who i am as a p