Luca R's Blog

                                               Part 2. When my mom isn't drunk, she tries to help. She's really helpful when she tries, I could really use her help. I try very hard to keep this family together but sometimes i really just can't. In the night when one of my sisters would wake up needing the toilet, I would have to take her to the toilet on the other side of town. At those toilets, there are sometimes bad people so we have to be very careful. I would really hope none of my sisters get sick because I would have to run all over the place to try and get medicine for her. I would really need a shower at some point but my family doesn't have a shower, I would try to trade to get a shower. I have a small house with two bedrooms, I would hope in the future that the government would help the houses. One day I saw a bird eating a bottle lid, I really hope ...

                                                       Part 1. I am telling you about my life in my town. I am 16 years old, my name is Oluwetou, I am in a family of four. I am the oldest since my brother died, last year from a gun shot. My mom doesn't take care of my younger sisters and me. She drinks a lot, dads death was really hard for her and she just couldn't handle it. When I wake up in the mornings, I have to make sure that everyone get to school on time, that no one goes to school starving and take care of my mom. Sometimes when there has been a flood, we have to walk through rivers on the way to school. I am close to being the only girl in my class. Nearly all my friends and classmates are pregnant, went onto gangs or got into drugs. When I come home, sometimes I find my mom on the floor past out. I try to get her on the bed so that my ...

Me, The Inspecter and I The singing inspector came last week. I was absolutely horrible, we had to do doh ray me fah and tata tete things. Then of course the singing, he called Charles and Benny up first. They looked so frightened to stand up infront. But they didn't know any songs, Mr Ramond was pointing his stick in the rithem of a modelator. They didn't even know the Blue Bells of scotland or minstrel Boy. The inspector got cross and shouted " What can you sing!". Just sing anything. Charles said in a weak voice " We can sing Pretty Polly". Mr Ramen shouted "Then sing it!". They began to sing, it was horrible singing. Charles sang Pretty Polly pretty poly whats whats oclock whats oclock in a low sort of voice and Benny who is very long sang pretty poly pretty poly in a high kind of squeaking voice because of being afraid and all of us wanted to laugh but being too frightend to laugh and then in the middle of the verse they both stopped just a...