"I remember being there in that unfamiliar classroom, 14 years old, in my strange new shoes and even though I could not speak English, I knew the children were asking me ''Who are you? Where are you from?''.
And I remember thinking ''how could I ever tell them?''.
When Mir was 13, the Taliban attacked his village in the mountains and he was forced to flee for his life. He was separated from his family and braved wolves, bandits and war, as he walked for weeks until he reached Turkey. He barely survived the hazardous boat crossing to Europe - a stranger''s hand the only difference between him becoming a statistic - and eventually found himself arriving in Dover, clinging to the underside of a lorry. There, for the first time in months, an adult showed him kindness and he broke down.
Mir began school illiterate, speaking no English, but discovered a passion for books and learnt astonishingly quickly, getting GCSEs, A-levels and making it to universi
