Our third class we ventured down to the Quick Center to meet Bryan Crandall, an English professor at Fairfield University. He met us in the Museum where we were looking at the works of Rick Shaefer’s The Refugee Trilogy. The pictures sketched from Shaefer depicted parts of many famous paintings but connected to the Refugee Crisis that operates around the world in our modern context. The pictures, I remember, were very surprising to me, the typical refugee wasn’t depicted, and it signified many people, most notably white, on the move.

We were asked directly by Crandall on our way down before viewing the work to consider a time where we were forced to relocate. The only time that I could think of was my freshman year, when I had to move into my freshman year dorm. When Crandall began to talk about the refugee crisis, I was forced to reflect on the privileges that I have in my life. I struggled just moving into my dorm and being away from my family two weeks at a time. I could never imagine having to leave my country with only the things on my back with no opportunity to return back to my home, some of my family members.

Thus, paving the way for the next class when we would meet the Refugees from the IICONN center that we would be working with every week.