Issah+A

__MY YOUNG HOODS __ Good day everyone! My name’s Gabby but people call me Issah. I am 21 years old and I am the oldest son in family of four brothers. I come from the Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Malawi, but I was born Republic of Congo. I was born in a village called Mwayenga. Mwayenga is a small village that’s near Uvira the second capital city of South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo after Bukavu.

My family and I lived in Mwanyenga for 7years before the beginning of the civil war in 1997. After two years I left my village and go to live in another village called Kachingwa in Tanganyika Province [before was in the Katanga Province]. I lived in Kachingwa like years then I moved to Uvira. I started my education and finished my primary school from 2000 to 2002. I also studied in Zawadi Secondary School for two years from 2002 to 2004. In the beginning of 2004 I left my country and go to live in the neighboring country that called Malawi.

When I arrived in Malawi for the first month I felt lonely because I met new people especially the language which are spoken in. I lived in the Dzaleka Refugee Camp for 7years with a difficult life; there were no enough food, clothes and money for buying something, but I survived.

I left Malawi in June 2011 to come to Australia “Queensland-Brisbane”. Moorroka is my suburb which I living in. At the moment I am studying English Course at Southbank Institute of Technology.

When I arrived in Australia I felt like I would be able to achieve all of my goals programs. In the future I would like to study three Courses if it is possible, I want to study Bricklaying, Civil Engineering and Law, but it will be difficult because I did not finish high School. I like become a famous person in the world, I would like people to write a novel or story about my life. I would like to join a politic part even the opposition groups. I don’t like to see people starving because it’s sometimes make me feeling them sadness and tears rounds in my eyes a lots. I really hate gender equality I don’t like it.

I hope you’ll enjoy my short story. I know my story won’t make everyone like it, but few of you’ll like it. Thank you for your good reading even if it does not well understanding, but your encouragement will be fine for us.

Issah