When I was 12 years old I was playing with my brother
and we were riding our quad bikes, when we heard gunshots going off. We were like “oh no let's go back to the house” So we quickly rode the quad bikes back to the house. Mum Dad were there's and yelled there is someone dropping bombs. We need a pack stuff and leave tonight.
It's night-time we can't take the car or the quad bike. It will make them suspicious. So then we walked to see if we could find any of our friends. We found some of our friends they were scared. We said we should run away together. Let’s go to the border and make it to a safer country. We walked for two days. Finally, we made it to the border. We all got caught by the military. People tried shooting at my feet so that I would stop. I fall to the ground, I am very scared. More scared then I’ve ever been in my life. They take us to a military army camp and in the military camp we had to do alot of work.
And then we got released out of the camp. We got on a boat to try and get to a safer country. It was a very old and rugged boat. I didnt think this boat would make it.
Our boat snapped in half in a storm at sea. I was wet and cold and scared, and worried. Will someone find us??? Luckily we got rescued by the New Zealand Navy, who took us to New Zealand.
The New Zealand Navy kept us safe for a little while to make sure it was actually properly safe to still be living in New Zealand. We found a farm to live on with them and then we had a farm and a place to live on and we were just living in a crate because that's all we had with our toys. Our one pair of clothes, we had one shirt one pair of pants and one pair of socks and one pair of undies and a hat and that was all we had And I had my favourite toy my toy horse And my teddy lamb from when I was a baby.
