Yusra Mardini reflects on the peace of returning home, but the trauma and destruction make her question how Syria can recover. Watch the full interview on our YouTube channel.
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00:00Then I also saw my grandma. After 10 years, I saw my friends. I saw the pool.
00:05For me, the pool is more home than home.
00:08For me, just to be able to sit and listen to the quietness and just the birds,
00:13as cheesy as that sounds, it gave me so much peace.
00:16But I'm not going to also make it sound like it was only positive,
00:21because when I went back, when I came back now, I've been struggling for a few days
00:26with traumas resurfacing. How can I help my people? How can I move forward?
00:33I also saw the destruction to the point where I'm like, how can we recover from this?