The Hardship.
685 Words
Twelve years of my life have been inside the four walls of the orphanage home although things have changed the orphanage was the only home I knew, and it became bearable with my crush.
He was light skin half caste black American who always came to the orphanage with his parents to visit us orphanage the first time I saw him I knew it was love at first sight and it was meant to be I could not take my eyes off him my stomach did a leap when our eyes meet and that moment I knew it was met to be, I later learned of his name Andre Mike.
the priest did not have much time for us he had people who always reported to him what was going on and most of those reports were false which always led to us being given strokes on the buttocks or hands.
the day I finally decided to leave the orphanage home was the day I got my first menses I didn't understand what was happening I was having unbearable pain I went to the sickbay to explain what was happening she gave me some pain relief and ask me to go that I will understand later, I tried taking the medication but I ended up throwing everything up, the nurse sent me out of the sickbay with a mean look on her face, and the rule in the home state that everyone must eat together because of the pain I was unable to go the dinner room I begged the girl in charge to please bring my food to me in the hostel which she obliged to according to her she has passed through it before, after much attempt to swallow down the food I left it clingy on to my pillow I was about falling alseep when I felt a stroke of cane on my back I saw the priest with a long cane hovering over my bed, how dare you disobey the house rules he kept on shouting with the cane on my back I begged him to stop crying and pleading.
when I realized I could no longer take the beating I took my school bag and ran out of the gate of the orphanage never to look back at it.
Was it a decision I regret at first YES but as Time goes on I think I made the right decision, and all those regrets have washed away with the passing of each new day.
after I left the orphanage with the little knowledge I know about my family I was able to trace some of my relative who were nice and accommodating they took me include me I will send to a little bit one of my distance and she was a caterer and a baker you show me the definition of what a family should be like my aunt was a commentatorI got admission to the prestigious University of Benin thinking to pay for the school field and my aunt had to refer children in another University the workload was much for her we're going to answer it all my other family members were assisting no agree at that time I will depressed because of that was always complaining two I have to look for a way took the intervention of God to pay for the school fee to school it's not provision for my accommodationthe host the heart kitchen where student dot normally go to and how to pack my things in that was real still doing through my hundred level my things were constantly stolen the kitchen I hardly eat well and all this affected my cgpa 100 level I was so skinny and always unhappy I thought of dropping out but when I remember where I was coming from I told myself quitting is never an option for me in my final year my I want to send me out of the house you told me to go look for my other relative that she can straight and later got to find out I to you
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