Refugee Experience

Dear journal
I’m not really sure what I’m doing but one of the people I’m sailing with told me to do this. Basically I’m a refugee, I never in my deepest thoughts that I would be a refugee. But I am. Over the last couple of years I heard on the news that our country started   (war?)  and then our country Australia was bankrupt. As soon as that was announced the riots started and then our country started going nuts, there were mass murders, bombings and fires.
Over the last year my family has been hiding in a small shelter with a small amount food and resources. Over the last couple of weeks we overheard that there was a boat leaving to South America.
When we were getting on the boat there were two or three cars that had intimidating people on it who had guns and other weapons.  Before we could even properly see them they had already started shooting at us.  As my sister and I were getting on the boat she got shot, my sister was shot.  I had no time to weep.  Before I knew it I saw my family getting gunned down and slaughtered, I was petrified scared as I watched my family laying on the floor dead.
No matter how hard I tried yelling out to go back, all that I achieved was annoying the people I was sailing with. I kept screaming out to go back and pilot said “shut up, they’ll start shooting at us”.
After 3 weeks of sailing we saw land, but there was a boat in-between us and the land. We were scared we didn’t know what we were going to do.  We had nothing to fight back with, no guns no knives, no nothing. We were scared we didn’t know what to do we had no idea if they were dangerous or not for all we knew we were as good as dead…

Exclusion

when i have been excluded i have always hated it but i know i would have excluded someone also but when i did exclude someone i knew i did and then brought them back and let them play our game or whatever it was. when i did get excluded i hated it because it made me feel weak and forgotten. so if i did exclude someone i will realise how it made me feel.

my memory

Memory
I think the biggest thing that I have achieved was when I got a Coach’s Award in football for always trying to complete my tasks. I won that award in 2014 and when I won the Coaches Award In 2015 also it was with a different coach, I think this time it was for always continuing to carry on even if I’m hurt or if I’m tired.
When our team played everyone would always cheer the whole team on, so when that happens you get a good feeling so when I got the coaches award I felt so good because everyone was cheering and my mum and dad were crying in joy and I was really overwhelmed and happy.