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  • Monday, 14 September 2015. Aysha carries Bisan on the long march from Horgos in Serbia to the Hungarian border. There is a constant flow of people walking on the abandoned railway tracks, rushing to get into Hungary before the border closes to undocumented migrants and refugees.
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  • Early morning, Monday 14th of September 2015. We arrived at Belgrade and hit the rush hour traffic. Bisan woke up and start crying.
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  • Night, Sunday 13th of September 2015. After an hour waiting in the queue with the girls Aysha came back from the hospital. Because of her condition she got the registration papers without waiting. The doctors told her that there is nothing to worry about but she needed rest. She is worried that the Hungarian border will close tomorrow so she decided to carry on. While we were waiting outside the camp entrance locals were asking us if we need a lift to Belgrade, they looked dodgy and we refused. Later on the trip we met a Syrian who went with one of those “taxis” and he got robbed.
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  • Ten o’clock at night,  Sunday 13th of September 2015. Aysha boarded one of the busses that were waiting outside the camp. The ticket was 25 euros for us 22 for others. Nobody gave any receipt. There where about 8 buses with the engines running, they looked full but none was leaving. The driver said that he is waiting for 2 more people to fill up and then we will go. There were many refugees coming out of the camp but nobody come to our bus. We waited for 1 ½ hour.
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  • Night, Sunday 13th of September 2015. I met Aysha outside the entrance of the registration camp in Preshevo, about two hours after we parted in the Macedonian-Serbian border. Her belly was swollen and she was bleeding. A Serbian officer took her to the hospital, she asked me to go and find the girls at the queue and look after them. The girls were happy to see me.
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  • Morning, Monday 14th of September 2015. Belgrade central train station. The bus from Preshevo left us outside the central bus station of Belgrade next to the train station. Aysha bought a ticket to the bus to Kanisha and the went to exchange her dollars to Euros. She was stressed that we won’t make it in time to Hungarian border. There where rumours that the border will close at noon and rumours that it will close at midnight.
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  • Night, Sunday 13th of September 2015. We waited for 1 ½ hour and the finally the bus left, but few hundred meters down the road it was stopped by a plain cloth policeman and made us return. The excuse was that some people onboard didn’t have the registration papers. We waited for one more hour while every 10 minutes the driver was saying that we are living now. People got upset and finally the driver said he is not leaving and forced us to alight. We went to the next bus where the some thing happened. Finally at a third bus and 5 hours later we left.
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  • Morning, Monday 14th of September 2015. On the bus to Kanisha. Aysha looks at the pretty villages of Vojvodina. The bus is a local one and stops in many villages on the way, so it takes double the time to go to the border. After 3 hours Aysha is start getting very worried.
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  • Afternoon, Monday 14th of September 2015. Aysha just crossed into Hungary and she has a little rest under the trees before going to a field where buses are waiting to take the refugees to the Austrian border. A Syrian teenager who was carrying Sham during the long march on the rail line, is giving her 2 cans of condensed milk that was given to him in Greece by volunteers.
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  • Sunday 13th of September 2015, afternoon. Aysha is carrying Bisan through a field meters away from the Macedonian - Serbian border. About an hour ago a train full of immigrants and refugees arrived at the border village of Slanishte after 4 hrs of travelling across the Republic of Macedonia. A group of Danish volunteers gave Aysha a pram to carry her daughters. The path is uneven and it will take her more than an hour to walk to the Serbian town of Preshevo.
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  • Afternoon, Sunday 13th of September 2015. Aysha is looking at me after she crossed into Serbian territory. We said goodbye to each other since we don’t know if we will meet on the other side of the border. The sun is getting down and it’s getting cold.
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  • Morning, Tuesday 15th of September 2015. Aysha took a taxi to Vienna, together with the three Syrian teenagers who were helping her carry her kids from Serbia to Hungary. As soon as the taxi drove off everyone fell asleep.
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