article_snippet.sent: (CNN)I would have done anything to get to Europe.
article_snippet.sent: I arrived in Turkey in December with an old dream in my mind: reaching Europe.
article_snippet.sent: On the fourth day us started us journey with a mix of excitement and fear -- fear that this madness often ends in tragedy, ends with us as numbers piled on top of all the other unfortunate, nameless numbers who never made it to the other side.
article_snippet.sent: Some of the people I had been traveling with said Some of the people I had been traveling weren't going to try to make the trip again.
article_snippet.sent: When Some of the people I had been traveling asked me what I planned to do, I told Some of the people I had been traveling I would do it again tomorrow if I could -- another journey through a sea where no prayer works, where no one is bigger than nature, where you can feel so small, no matter how big your dreams are.
article_snippet.sent: I didn't know where my fellow travellers were heading, but I knew one thing: my dream of making it to Europe, no matter the cost and risk involved, had been achieved.