Selim story ...
Selim smiled at me again. Just then Penny and magda eame to the bar.
" have you got the drinks?
Penny asked 'yes,
sorry, I said some one phone. me and I lost the coke."
' here you are, said Selim. And he gave me a new coke .he quickly put a small paper in to my hand, too.
I put the paper in my bag and gave the coke to Penny .we sat and finished our drinks.
Sometime later magda looked at her watch.
'I'd like to go now, she said.
I'm tired so we want when I got home.
I took the paper out of my bag and opened it.
It had a telephone number on it and next to it big letter:
PHONE ME SELIM.
Next day I PHONE selim.
I wanted to see him again.
I wanted to more about him.
I know something about Bosnia but
I wanted to know more.
Why was he in Britain?
Was he an illegal immigrant or not?
I was interested in selim 's story but there was something more.
I remembered his blue eyes and his nice smile when I thought of selim, I felt exited! We met one afternoon and walked along the river, it was a sunny day
We came to a cafe next to the river.
We had some coffee and sat and talked.
I asked him about Bosnia '
" do your mother and father live in Sarajevo?
Selim closed his eyes ' my mother and father are dead,
He said 'they died in the streets of Sarajevo .
One day they went to the shops to buy things to eat.
There was a bomb in street and
It killed them."
'Oh, selim I'm sorry, I said what could I say?'
I stayed in Bosnia to find work but there was no work in Sarajevo and it was dangerous for me there people wanted to kill me.
There was nothing for me in
Bosnia.
I knew English from school. So I come to Britain.
He laughed 'I gave a friend a lot money to bring me here.
But now,here in Britain they say,
" go back to Bosnia "
But it was dangerous for you to be in
Bosnia you said that.
'Yes,I tell them this, but then they say, " you are in Britain because you you want to work here,not because Bosnia was dangerous. "
So now I am an illegal immigrant and I am afraid of the police.
" but how can you find work here?''
'It's not easy to find work and the work is not good when there was work in Bosnia I worked with computer .
Here I work in bars and cafés.
I say," I am greek. "
Greek people can work here, but. Not Bosnia so herre in Britain .I am Greek.
Selim laughed again.
But it was not a happy laugh we drank our coffee and looked at the river "do you miss Bosnia?"I asked
"Sometimes I miss the mountains.in Bosnia every weekend I went to the mountains.
I love climbing.
But that's wonderful!
" I said, I love climbing too my dad
And I are climbers.
But there are no mountains here,selim said."
"Not in Oxford, no but there are mountains in wales.
That's not very faraway. My dad and I are going to climb in wales next month.
Then I thought of something selim listen, I said there's a climbing wall in the university.
It's good fun let's go and climb there next week ."
So next week we Met at the
University climbing wall.
Selim looked up at it this is new,to me, he said.
We don't have climbing walls in Bosnia it's easy. I said watch me.
I climbed one of the easy routes up the wall.
Selim watch me.then he did it
He was good. I could see that
He moved easily up the wall when he came Don in,he smiled.
I liked that,he said 'You're right it was fun .but it was very easy.
Let's try a differen route.
So we tried a different longer route this time ' we had ropes.
I went first selim came after me.
I'm good climber, but selim was better than me.'
When we finished, selim said, "that was good can we do it again?"
' Perhaps next week?'
I looked at him and selim happily.
'I'd like that, I said .
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