My name is Liam and I live in London. I live in a cramped space with my parents and 2 brothers, one is older and the other is younger. My dad works in the coal mines and my mum works in a textile factory. My older brother named Harry is 19 years old and he is also working in the coal mines. My younger brother named Connor who is 10 years old works in a nail factory. As for myself, my name is Liam I am 14 years of age and I worked in the shipyards. I don't like it in London and neither does anyone else.
Everyone in my family doesn't like London because we all work hard and we don't get paid enough for how much time and effort we put into each of our jobs. We also hate it because we live in a cramped space for 5 people. Some nights if it was really cold we would have slept remarkably close together. Connor regularly complains when he is done working because he doesn't get to play a lot during the day, but after he works he would be too tired to do anything so he would sleep. He also hates it when he goes for a shower because he would get the dirtiest water and we hated as well because he smelled a lot.
We all smell a lot some days I could even smell myself and that's not the good smell. It's also mostly because it's dirty outside all the time and we also smell that but now I'm used to it so it's fine. Harry doesn't complain because he knows nothing will change and I'm trying to be like him also but some days it's just too hard to deal with something calmly that is extremely severe. Dad and mum are trying to put on a face that everything is fine but Harry and I know that we all are struggling. Sometimes we would hear mum crying and dad would try to stop in case we heard. I and Harry are trying to put on a face for Connor but I know he will find out later, and then maybe he will stop complaining but him complaining is fine now because he doesn't know about the struggles and his complaints don't last long anyway.
Harry told me and Connor about something called a school and it sounds fascinating. Now I would rather go to school than start work at a young age. I think that's what my brother would have liked when he was my age too. He also has said to me that if he had the chance now he would leave his job and join a school, but he told us that he's too old to join now. We don't regularly see dad because he is always working so I feel like we are all really distant from him. We meet him sometimes but when we talk to him he seems too tired so we just stop and tell each other our problems instead of bringing mum and dad more problems to deal with, but I don't think our problems are as big as the ones they already have. I am glad that we tell each other our problems because I think we solve it faster. Sometimes we would get mad at each other but that would get resolved in a day so that's fine.
Mum would care a lot about all 3 of us. She would warn us about the diseases and that we shouldn't drink from certain fountains, but I and Harry already know that she was mostly saying because of Connor but he doesn't want to feel left out so we hear it every time. I also don't like London because of the overcrowding, there's just so many people now. When I was younger my dad used to tell me how he used to complain that there were too many people before this. And now that he has seen how many people have come now he's grateful for what he had before. I don't think that there is much of a difference anyway. I think my dad said that so we won't annoy him about stuff like the space we live in or how we have way too many people. My mum also says things like how bad stuff was when she was younger to Connor so that he should be grateful and stop complaining. Even though we don't believe that anything going to change dad and mum still bring hope for us that everything could change. I have a good feeling about today I just feel lucky.
I was right today is lucky. Mum just heard from some friends that some people are able to migrate to another country called New Zealand. She even saw a poster about it! It has said that we would get a greater opportunity. Apparently, the poster said that we would be going by ship and you just have to sign up. Mum has already signed up our family to go. Everyone in my family is excited, but I'm not sure about it. I'm just hoping that it is better than here and hoping that it also has a school. We are going in a month and I'm having mixed feelings about this all I can do now is just hope. I'm excited to leave all the dirty water and overcrowding but what if New Zealand has bigger problems that we haven't thought of.
It's been a few days and Harry has convinced me that it's better so now I'm 100% thrilled and eager to leave. Connor has been really quiet my parents and Harry think that he's a bit sick and it'll be fine, but I think that he is having mixed feelings like I did. I told him the amazing things that are there but he is still quiet so now I think he's a bit sick. Seventeen days to leave and I'm really excited I can't even concentrate on my work at the shipyards. Day by day I'm getting more eager to leave but Connor is just getting more sick day by day as well. Everyone thinks that he might have a disease but we can't do anything about it so we just have to wait. Everyone is really worried about him I think he's going to die but I don't want him too. I also haven't talked to Harry recently but I think he's fine.
I talked to him yesterday but not properly and he and dad left pretty early this morning for the coal mines and they haven't arrived yet. They are usually not this late. Connor went to the doctors' house today and he was told that he was just a bit sick so the doctor gave him antibiotics and after he woke he was fine. Dad and Harry have still not arrived and mum's getting worried, but I think it's fine. I usually calm mum down and I just did. Connor is back to his complaining and I think that's better than him being sick and quiet, you don't realise some things unless you've it. Like Connor being quiet we all got worried but he just had a cough. Dad has arrived but not Harry, that's not normal.
They usually arrive together. Dad seems really tired today so I'll try to help since Harry's not here yet. Mum just dropped a glass so I went to see what happened. Mum was crying and dad was on the verge of crying too. Dad just told me what happened and I burst into tears. He told me that Harry has died from suffocation from gas in the coal mines. It is a very sad week for us this week. One thing I can confirm is that it has been an emotional rollercoaster and it will definitely be a memorable week. It will be a sad memory that we will not be able to forget. My parents have decided to tell Connor when he wakes up in the morning. I think that he'll be very unhappy when he hears about this incident. We were going to move on Harry's birthday, my dad told us that was going to be his present, but then we found out that dad had gotten him another gift which he was going to get in New Zealand. We haven't seen it yet though we just that there is one, which we had been keeping secret from Harry. We are leaving in a few hours I can't wait!
We all smell a lot some days I could even smell myself and that's not the good smell. It's also mostly because it's dirty outside all the time and we also smell that but now I'm used to it so it's fine. Harry doesn't complain because he knows nothing will change and I'm trying to be like him also but some days it's just too hard to deal with something calmly that is extremely severe. Dad and mum are trying to put on a face that everything is fine but Harry and I know that we all are struggling. Sometimes we would hear mum crying and dad would try to stop in case we heard. I and Harry are trying to put on a face for Connor but I know he will find out later, and then maybe he will stop complaining but him complaining is fine now because he doesn't know about the struggles and his complaints don't last long anyway.
Harry told me and Connor about something called a school and it sounds fascinating. Now I would rather go to school than start work at a young age. I think that's what my brother would have liked when he was my age too. He also has said to me that if he had the chance now he would leave his job and join a school, but he told us that he's too old to join now. We don't regularly see dad because he is always working so I feel like we are all really distant from him. We meet him sometimes but when we talk to him he seems too tired so we just stop and tell each other our problems instead of bringing mum and dad more problems to deal with, but I don't think our problems are as big as the ones they already have. I am glad that we tell each other our problems because I think we solve it faster. Sometimes we would get mad at each other but that would get resolved in a day so that's fine.
Mum would care a lot about all 3 of us. She would warn us about the diseases and that we shouldn't drink from certain fountains, but I and Harry already know that she was mostly saying because of Connor but he doesn't want to feel left out so we hear it every time. I also don't like London because of the overcrowding, there's just so many people now. When I was younger my dad used to tell me how he used to complain that there were too many people before this. And now that he has seen how many people have come now he's grateful for what he had before. I don't think that there is much of a difference anyway. I think my dad said that so we won't annoy him about stuff like the space we live in or how we have way too many people. My mum also says things like how bad stuff was when she was younger to Connor so that he should be grateful and stop complaining. Even though we don't believe that anything going to change dad and mum still bring hope for us that everything could change. I have a good feeling about today I just feel lucky.
I was right today is lucky. Mum just heard from some friends that some people are able to migrate to another country called New Zealand. She even saw a poster about it! It has said that we would get a greater opportunity. Apparently, the poster said that we would be going by ship and you just have to sign up. Mum has already signed up our family to go. Everyone in my family is excited, but I'm not sure about it. I'm just hoping that it is better than here and hoping that it also has a school. We are going in a month and I'm having mixed feelings about this all I can do now is just hope. I'm excited to leave all the dirty water and overcrowding but what if New Zealand has bigger problems that we haven't thought of.
It's been a few days and Harry has convinced me that it's better so now I'm 100% thrilled and eager to leave. Connor has been really quiet my parents and Harry think that he's a bit sick and it'll be fine, but I think that he is having mixed feelings like I did. I told him the amazing things that are there but he is still quiet so now I think he's a bit sick. Seventeen days to leave and I'm really excited I can't even concentrate on my work at the shipyards. Day by day I'm getting more eager to leave but Connor is just getting more sick day by day as well. Everyone thinks that he might have a disease but we can't do anything about it so we just have to wait. Everyone is really worried about him I think he's going to die but I don't want him too. I also haven't talked to Harry recently but I think he's fine.
I talked to him yesterday but not properly and he and dad left pretty early this morning for the coal mines and they haven't arrived yet. They are usually not this late. Connor went to the doctors' house today and he was told that he was just a bit sick so the doctor gave him antibiotics and after he woke he was fine. Dad and Harry have still not arrived and mum's getting worried, but I think it's fine. I usually calm mum down and I just did. Connor is back to his complaining and I think that's better than him being sick and quiet, you don't realise some things unless you've it. Like Connor being quiet we all got worried but he just had a cough. Dad has arrived but not Harry, that's not normal.
They usually arrive together. Dad seems really tired today so I'll try to help since Harry's not here yet. Mum just dropped a glass so I went to see what happened. Mum was crying and dad was on the verge of crying too. Dad just told me what happened and I burst into tears. He told me that Harry has died from suffocation from gas in the coal mines. It is a very sad week for us this week. One thing I can confirm is that it has been an emotional rollercoaster and it will definitely be a memorable week. It will be a sad memory that we will not be able to forget. My parents have decided to tell Connor when he wakes up in the morning. I think that he'll be very unhappy when he hears about this incident. We were going to move on Harry's birthday, my dad told us that was going to be his present, but then we found out that dad had gotten him another gift which he was going to get in New Zealand. We haven't seen it yet though we just that there is one, which we had been keeping secret from Harry. We are leaving in a few hours I can't wait!
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