Good morning, Hank, it's Tuesday. So on the day I met Aida and Magida at the Azrak refugee camp in Northern Jordan, I also met 16-year-old Hussam. Hi. Hi. How are you? Good. Nice to meet you. Yeah, nice to meet you, too. Hussam is a truly extraordinary kid who lives with his mother and younger brother in a shelter with very little furniture, except a bookshelf, which contains the Quran and a couple other books. I began by asking Hussam how he learned to speak English. Actually, they are there. Yeah, they come. You want to do the books? Yeah, three months, we'll probably study. Three months! Like, I'll upload some features from YouTube and I'll end. I'll end. Three things listening. That's right. He learned from YouTube. Well, and he works with a tutor who's also a Syrian refugee. I go to him every day, every day lightly, and the warning, when I have a free time, just go to him and say, hey, teach me English. He has two accents. American and Tibetan. For the old and iron-yre laughing, because for both of us, that's one more accent than we have. Hussam also studied English a little bit back in Syria. In fact, he was in English class when his school was bombed. So we heard the English teacher shouting, hey, darn. And all the students were laying in the ground. So just a work plan. I showed the school with the missiles. And the students with my friends died and injured. They guys were crying and I have my friends who died. So I had to tell them, I'm his name and actually, it was terrible. Yeah, it was terrible. So... Can I consider you think about your friend often? Yeah, yeah, actually. I was showing my, his photos and his school. So... Yeah, can you show me? Yeah. This happened to me often in Jordan. The refugees I met almost never had printed photographs. Instead, their pictures of friends and family were on phones. Sometimes on non-functioning phones, they kept charged only to access the pictures. Hussam first showed me a picture of blood on the floor of his classroom, and then he showed me his only picture of his friend. It was of a teen boy's corpse. His dead eyes staring up at the camera. I asked him if this is why his family had left Syria. Yeah, this moment, they said, no school, no working, no life, I see he wasn't safe. So we should go to Jordan to reset a better life. But since then, Hussam's family has spread out. I have three parts of my family, one in Syria and one in Germany and we are here and actually I have my brother in Turkey. His brother in Turkey is on scholarship at university. He has two married sisters still in Syria and his father and engineer and older brother took the boats to cross into Europe more than a year ago. Hussam, his mother and younger brother are hoping to be allowed to reunite with them soon in Germany. Hussam seems to genuinely love learning. He's a very successful tenth grader at the refugee camps high school. He also loves writing stories. I like to write adventure stories. So somebody who lost in the forest and he's like found some things in the night and he's like, I can't write so I like it. But when I asked him if he wanted to be a writer or a translator when he grew up, he said no. I'm not going to be a total engineer like my father was in jail to finish my study when I finished that I go to a company in Syria which helps. In Syria and people in Syria. And I hope you build it that would be your dream. Yeah, I rebuild it. This is my dream actually. It's my country and the green country. I love it so much. This young man has not seen his father, his sisters or two of his brothers in more than a year and he knows that they can only be reunited in a safe, peaceful Syria and that is his dream to rebuild that country. Hussam also loves to sing. In fact, he sang for us about Syria while his mother wept. And so this young singer and writer will hopefully one day soon be an engineer. And I really admire that professional goal. Hussam is a brilliant and tremendously disciplined kid. I mean, he learned English in three months. He could do anything. But his greatest ambition is to bring his talents to the kind of work his country will need the most. And to me, that's true heroism. Godspeed, Assalam. May your dreams come true. May you be a soldier in the army of engineers that rebuilds your country. Thank you. I'll see you in the next.