If I had a better life - Noelia Franco 2ºAR

                                                                                        

                                  IF I HAD…A BETTER LIFE

Hi guys, my name is Kari, I’m 16 and I’m Ethiopian. Someone in the street shut me that I must to talk about if I had a better life. I know that he or she was kidding me, but I haven´t got anything better to do so… 

If I had a better life…, well, a better life would improve my daily life, because I’m poor, I can´t study, I haven´t got a family… If I had it, I could do things that I have never done like going to school, have a family, good health... Things that now I can´t do.

With a better life, I could study literature, because I love it, but I haven´t got enough money to pay it. I live in Ethiopia, and it is very difficult to have decent studies, because most of the people that live in my country are poor, like me.

If I had a good family and a house to live, I would be happy, because my better life will have them. Grandpas, grannies, uncles, cousins, and…parents, I haven´t got parents, they left me when I was a four years child, I think so…, it was twelve years ago. Since then, I live among trash and dirt, very sad…

With a family, I would have security, a good security, because in a future, I do not want a kidnapper to catch me. Just a few days ago, by little, I was attacked by a robber, but the police was nearby, but I don´t know why, because as I’m poor, I have nothing important.

It also would have Health Services. Certainly, rich people have better health resources, and often, they are not sick, but compared to me, as sad as it seems, I think that I’m in risk of dying. Yes, yes, yes, I can´t eat, I don´t drink since last month, nobody wants to be with me, it´s so sad for me and probably, for you.

If I were to become an adult, I would help the poor children, be with them, and I would teach them to write, to read... These are the things that I can do, because I would like to learn to do these things called addition and subtraction... All this with a better life...

When I dream about a new better life, I think of a word, friends. In my dreams, I´m with children, playing chess and running into the sun. At first, it would be strange, but beautiful in my mind, being with friends could be amazing, but as you know, I´m very lonely, and it´s so difficult to make them, when you are with dirty clothes, and you seems like a witch.

Money, another thing that I need to make my life better. Not one million Euros, Pounds, Dollars, or in my country, Ethiopian Birrs, only enough money to live like a normal person.

Then, it´s the big problem, nobody knows me, and nobody wants to be with me, I am very lonely, so, I can´t tell this to anyone, because people will ignore me, except all those who read this little story about me, and my life.

Oh! I really would want a new and better life, far from the sadness that I have now, with all the things that I would have, and sure, I wouldn´t remember the bad things that I’m passing now. In this moment, I can draw, write, and read, but, what can I do for the future? Maybe, improve my life anyway, looking for a good job, and hope that people look at me with other eyes...

All right, I have just finished, so I’m going to put this little text in somewhere, probably someone will read it, will search me and will give me one opportunity.

XOXOXOX

Kari