In the midst of one of the biggest storms of their trip; cold, wet, hungry, and scared, were the prevailing feelings of the group, yet spirits remained high as it was set to be their last. It had been a long, hard journey, but even a tempest this ferocious could not dampen their morale. With their new lives set to begin so soon, nothing could get in their way now.
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The sky as black as ink and the rain pouring in torrents, nineteen-year-old Nala, hunched over in the middle of the boat trying desperately to protect her baby Azita from the gale, looked up at her family surrounding her and smiled. The final stage of their extensive journey was just hours away and they would once again have the chance to regain a normal life. In the years since the war began, she had never felt so assured.
Hours later, the passing of the storm allowed the company …show more content…
When they at last met land they were greeted by the flashing lights that they had previously mistaken to mean comfort and security. The air once saturated with euphoria and hope, began to sour as reality set in.
One of the men who spoke some English began to realise the police talking about their processing into Nauru did not, in fact, mean to come into Australia but to be taken away to am ‘off-shore processing camp’, aka a detention centre. Disappointment and desperation flowed though the hall as the group discovered their journey had not actually come to an end, only stared a new chapter, however, they still had glimmers of hope as they did not realise the full ramifications of this sentence.
Nala desperately tried to console her heartbroken family by painting the situation a positive light and reminding them that this was in no way the end. Sitting in a far corner of the room, the quite voice of Hani, Nala’s youngest brother, spoke out and whispered “Maybe that's where they sent Daddy, Nala. Do you think he could be
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The sky as black as ink and the rain pouring in torrents, nineteen-year-old Nala, hunched over in the middle of the boat trying desperately to protect her baby Azita from the gale, looked up at her family surrounding her and smiled. The final stage of their extensive journey was just hours away and they would once again have the chance to regain a normal life. In the years since the war began, she had never felt so assured.
Hours later, the passing of the storm allowed the company …show more content…
When they at last met land they were greeted by the flashing lights that they had previously mistaken to mean comfort and security. The air once saturated with euphoria and hope, began to sour as reality set in.
One of the men who spoke some English began to realise the police talking about their processing into Nauru did not, in fact, mean to come into Australia but to be taken away to am ‘off-shore processing camp’, aka a detention centre. Disappointment and desperation flowed though the hall as the group discovered their journey had not actually come to an end, only stared a new chapter, however, they still had glimmers of hope as they did not realise the full ramifications of this sentence.
Nala desperately tried to console her heartbroken family by painting the situation a positive light and reminding them that this was in no way the end. Sitting in a far corner of the room, the quite voice of Hani, Nala’s youngest brother, spoke out and whispered “Maybe that's where they sent Daddy, Nala. Do you think he could be