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My name is Bhavdeep Kumar, most people call
me Bhav,

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I am currently studying social work and I live
here in Dortmund.

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Have there been any unexpected events in your
life?

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So it was, I think,

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not originally planned at all, that I would
be here today,

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because I was born in India and

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then it just happened that way,

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my father already  lived here,

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with my mother and my sister moved here.

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Yes, I'm standing here now.

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How old were you when you moved to Germany?

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I was four, when we came here

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and I can also remember my time in India quite
well.

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It was all very new because I come from a very

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rural area in India and here then to see all
the big houses

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and yes, all this big city traffic, that was
something new.

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What does home mean to you?

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For me, home doesn't really have a fixed place

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Well, my concept of home is always like this:
Home is there

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where my loved ones are, where the people are,

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with whom I get on well and simply feel comfortable
with

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that could be here in Dortmund or in Witten,

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where my parents are right now and all my siblings,

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because yes, I grew up in Witten. Or even if

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some friends of mine moved to Mainz or something,

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that's also a bit of home for me, because of
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people who are close to my heart and that's
why:

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As long as I have people there who are close
to my heart,

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for me it is still a piece of home for me.

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Have there been any unexpected events in your
life?

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Yes, I mean, life is somehow

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a bit characterized by crises. Like for many
people, I think,

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the corona crisis has been something been something
very relevant.

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For me, that was also my graduation with the
Abitur

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and so on and then complete lack of planning,

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where to go now. And actually by chance

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I then discovered my FSJ position at the time

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and then that led to that I did something completely
different

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than what I actually originally planned.

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I now do a lot of cultural work

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for social work and play theater and dance

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and that was something I could not have imagined
back then

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So this very formative year for me,

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This FSJ was a very very unexpected event.

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How do you feel about your future?

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On the one hand, I'm a bit afraid that it might

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doesn't quite go the way as I had imagined

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and my ideas are not even that accurate.

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So, I just imagine, I want at some point

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a part-time job in social work and maybe do

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freelance something in the direction of cultural
work

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or workshop work, perhaps with children and
young people

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because I like that. So that is roughly the
framework

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that I have set for myself. There is already
a bit of fear,

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that it won't work out. But I am also really
excited about it,

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what it will be like when I have finished my
studies

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and can then really go into into all the professional
fields,

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which I can already see a little bit can get
a taste of right now.

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That's why, yes, I have a laughing eye and
a crying eye.

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What advice would you give to your younger
self?

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Take every chance you can get. Because every
chance you turn down

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or that you are afraid of, is an opportunity,

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that you may never get again.