For the rest of the day, Sam struggled to concentrate on her work as her thoughts drifted to the meeting with the professor that Julie had promised to arrange.
She was glad to get home and head out to do her grocery shopping. Until recently, going to the supermarket had been an occasional treat and she purchased only bare necessities, but with a regular wage, she planned to shop regularly.
Since moving to Sydney from Melbourne five years before, the refuge’s leftovers had sustained her. But she was no longer that scared girl. She was determined to do this on her own.
Over the years, the constant failures of not securing a job and her lack of money to purchase even the basics to survive had reinforced her belief that she was a failure. But now she found herself in a delightful world of c
