Phil Kafcaloudes
Reporter: Ahmed Awadallah, from the US, but he is an Egyptian national, and hes got a terrific story. Hes one of the delegates here. Ahmed, thank you very much for joining us.
Ahmed: Thank you for having me.
Reporter: So its obviously a great opportunity for you as well, coming from Egypt originally, and then now, in Australia. What an interesting trip, what an interesting life.
Ahmed: Yeah. Actually I grew up; I lived all my life in Egypt. I was born in a very small village north from Cairo, where I went to the public school. For all my life I have never touched a computer keyboard, never seen a computer, never spoke English. I graduated from a technical high school. I never went to college, and in 2007, I applied for a *Fulbright Scholarship. It was an opportunity for students from Egypt, who went to the technical school, and I was selected, and I had to learn English in six month before I travel to the United States and started at Northampton Community College in August, 2008.
Reporter: Six months.
Ahmed: Six months.
Reporter: …to learn English.
Ahmed: Yeah.
Reporter: And you didnt even have a computer?
Ahmed: Yeah. So it was hard. I was working as a full time teacher instructor at the technical school, so I had a whole day at the school, then I had to go at night for my English course, for four hours every day, then I had to speak English, which, I really like the language. I think it was just easy for me to learn it for some reason. So thats what had with me to just go
記者:艾哈邁德·阿瓦達拉從美國來,但其實他是埃及人,他有一個很精彩的故事要和大家分享,他是這里(譯者注:2013年3月在澳大利亞墨爾本舉行的模擬聯(lián)合國大會)的代表之一。艾哈邁德,非常感謝你參加我們的節(jié)目。
艾哈邁德:謝謝你邀請我。
記者:呃,很顯然這于你而言也是一個極好的機會,你原本來自埃及,而現(xiàn)在則身在澳大利亞。豐富的旅行,精彩的人生啊。
艾哈邁德:是的。我出生在開羅北部的一個小村莊,在埃及長大,我在那里讀的公立學校。以前我從來沒有碰過電腦鍵盤,從來沒見過電腦,也從來沒說過英語。我從一所職業(yè)技術學校畢業(yè),從來沒有上過大學,但在2007年我申請了富布萊特獎學金。這對于來自職業(yè)技術學校的埃及學生來說是個很好的機會,最終我獲得了那樣的機會。在去美國之前,我必須在六個月里學會英語,并在2008年8月開始了在賓夕法尼亞州的北安普頓社區(qū)大學的學習。
記者:六個月。
艾哈邁德:六個月。
記者:……來學習英語。
艾哈邁德:是的。
記者:你甚至連一臺電腦也沒有,對嗎?
艾哈邁德:是的,所以條件很艱苦。我是技術學校的全職老師,所以我白天整天都得待在學校,然后晚上我得去上每天四小時的英語課,然后我就得說英語,我真的很喜歡英語。我覺得,不知何故,學習英語對我來說還是挺容易的。也正因為這樣,上社區(qū)大學于我而言
with the community college, and then I applied for the Cookstown University of Pennsylvania, which I attend right now to get my Bachelor degree in political science.
Reporter: And also I understand that youve been accepted by the London School of Economics as well. Ahmed: Yes. Yeah, thats actually my dream school. I have never thought I was gonna even visit the London School of Economics. I applied, I just think, you can just follow your dreams, and work hard and you can achieve whatever you want. I worked hard, and Im getting my Bachelor degree. Im graduating in May, in two month. I applied, like, at the end of fall semester to the London School of Economics, which I thought I will never make it, but I just applied. I applied for few other schools. I got accepted by the London School of Economics, which is a huge deal for me myself. So I think working hard really pays off.
Reporter: So you may get back to Egypt one day?
Ahmed: Yes. My ultimate goal, hopefully I can work for the United Nation one day and, in the long term, I really want to go back and hopefully I can work for the government and make a change in my country.
Reporter: Ahmed Awadallah, who is the Egypt representative at the World *Model United Nations; your story is an amazing one. Thank you very much for joining us.
Ahmed: Thank you for having me.
也是一件簡單的事情。然后我申請了賓夕法尼亞州的庫克斯敦大學,也就是我現(xiàn)在就讀的學校,我要在那里攻讀我的政治學學士學位。
記者:我聽說你已經(jīng)被倫敦政治經(jīng)濟學院錄取了。
艾哈邁德:嗯,是的。事實上,那是我夢想的學校。我甚至從來沒有想過我會有去倫敦政治經(jīng)濟學院參觀的機會。我之所以申請,我只是在想,你可以追隨你的夢想,并為此付出努力,你就可以得到任何你想要的。我很努力,我即將獲得我的學士學位,我在五月份就要畢業(yè),兩個月內(nèi)。我好像是在秋季學期末申請的倫敦政治經(jīng)濟學院,我想我永遠不會得到這個機會的,但我還是申請了。我還申請了幾所其他的學校。我被倫敦政治經(jīng)濟學院錄取了,這對我自己來說是一件大事。所以我覺得努力學習是會有所回報的。
記者:那么你以后會回埃及嗎?
艾哈邁德:當然。我的終極目標是希望有一天能在聯(lián)合國工作。從長遠來看,我真的很想回去,我希望能為政府工作,為國家的進步貢獻一份力。
記者:艾哈邁德·阿瓦達拉是世界模擬聯(lián)合國大會的埃及代表;你真的帶給我們一個令人驚奇的故事。非常感謝你的參與。艾哈邁德:也感謝你邀請了我。翻譯:木子李
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