Rosa arrived in Glasgow in April 2003 when she was 16. She had fled Burundi with a friend of the same age and the city council placed the two asylum seekers in a basic bedsit. Rosa and her friend knew no-one in Scotland but, in any case, they weren't allowed visitors to their bedsit.
So during their first weeks in this strange city they stayed inside for many hours, bored and lonely.
Going out could be a frightening experience, though. "At first it was strange because I felt people didn't like me," says Rosa. "One day we were at a bus stop and one man said: 'What are you doing here? Go back to your country'. It was a small thing, but it felt bad."
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