2024-10-08
8 分钟Hi, I'm Josh Haner and I'm a staff photographer at the New York Times covering climate change.
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This is the Opinions, a show that brings you a mix of voices from New York Times opinion.
You've heard the news.
Here's what to make of it.
My name is Musa Abu Toha and I'm a Palestinian poet from the Gaza Strip.
I left Gaza with my wife and three children two months after the October 7th happened.
We headed to Egypt before making it to the United States, where we are currently living.
I taught English for about five years before I had to leave Gaza and before the school year last year had to stop.
So as a teacher, I couldn't help but make friends with my students.
When I start to present a new lesson, I would bring up some stories, especially after I traveled to the United States in 2019, and I would show them some photos that I took in Arizona or in Massachusetts or in New York City and some, you know, videos of the snow and the fall there.
And my students would jump off their desks and I found them all around me.
Some students, by the way, call me the American, the American, although I only lived there for a few months.
So they love me.
But when I become strict, they know how tough I could be.
As a teacher, I loved my work.
As a teacher, I loved my students and also loved my fellow teachers.