19^th January 1955

HELP ME, its Charlize I want to come home I feel like a fish out of water. It’s been one year and 2 weeks I have just run out of water and food. Our clothes stink like an animal has just died.  It has been a couple of wet and stormy days with a lot of rain out on the boat.  I want to come home to my family.  People expect me to be happy but media are saying we’re not welcome any more .I don’t know if you are okay and safe and all our other friends and family. I cry and cry about you because I don’t know if you are okay.

If you get this message please write back because I hope to hear from you {ASAP} I miss school, my family, the beach, my home and my way of life and I’m okay so don’t worry about me. I feel hopeless.

I have nightmares of when I was fleeing Australia. I have been told I am being transported from the Malaysian Refugee Camp to another, not sure what one yet.

We have had people dying because of a strong disease that is  killing millions of people like younger kids, babies and many more people have died.  I have just got on a boat to go to a another camp I don’t know what one.

I have now arrived after 2 hours on the boat have finely made it with no hassles. I hope to see some of the other family or friends. I have just had something to eat and drink and it’s about 6.00 to 7.00 o’clock. I’m staying in tent 17. I have other people staying beside me but not sure who. I have just been asked to go to have dessert with the girl in tent 16.

When I got to the table the best thing happened. I saw my best friend and I ran to her and started crying with joy and we slept head to toe and then we are waiting to get shipped to England.

Mia and I live together now. I still have nightmares and dreams about fleeing and sometimes like all the time I hear a plane I think that they’re going to drop a bomb.

Well I have just packed my bag and now I’m sitting on the boat watching the waves about to leave to go to England.  I hope I don’t ever have to flee again. I hope I have the best life but if it happens again in the future.  I hope to live with no fear and no war!