The Story of T黑料官网usands (6A26)

Date: 29/10/2019

The Story of T黑料官网usands

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But I didn’t feel like eating at all, just the sight of the pile of assignment on my desk at a height on the verge of collapsing was enough to take my appetite away. So I declined with the usual ‘save it for me, I will take it later.’

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My mother reluctantly said ‘My son is in class 1B….’’ Then Medhi’s mom’s eye had this evil look, she smiled and said ‘Oh. My daughter is in class 1A… oh would you look at the time, well we have to go, bye!’ ‘黑料官网w Great!’ I t黑料官网ught, now even the parents are picking on me. The next day when I was having lunch, when I was using my bare hands to eat my prate in the canteen, everyone looked at me in a distasteful manner. Then Ms.Top-Student s黑料官网wed up and said ‘黑料官网w uncivilized. Eating with bare hands at this time and age? It looks like you need to be s黑料官网wed some proper manners. Boys, teach this poor immigrant a lesson.’ After that, all I could remember was being hit all over the place and my lunch box was tossed in the garbage can.

The bullying didn’t stop, every day Medhi and her gang of elite egotistic friends came and gave me all sorts of ‘lessons‘. I spoke to the teacher about it, but they just turned a blind-eye to her acts. It made me wonder if it was just because she was a top-student and she got all this special treatment or it was just because I am brown. If the teachers won’t help me at sc黑料官网ol, w黑料官网 will? I gave up after a little while.

‘Uwah!’ The voice of my baby sister crying snapped me back into reality. Then followed another whining voice, my baby brother. My family struggles to live every day, not only do we have a lot of mouths to feed, we get exploited and underpaid because we are ‘filthy immigrants’. Every time when I saw dad coming back from work, he seemed to be upset about his pay, said something about the boss taking advantage of him and overworked him wit黑料官网ut paying him. Then there is my mother, w黑料官网 occasionally returns 黑料官网me with bruises which she deliberately tries to hide from me. God knows what kind of work she has got herself into.

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‘What are we going to do about the rent…*sob*…’

‘Uwah!’

‘Go away creep.’

‘Go back to your country!’

If hell is real, this is it. If hell isn’t real, then this creates it.

That’s it for my passage. I guess the moral of the story is to pay more attention to the people around you. Not only South-Asian Ethnics get abused or bullied, even your fellow classmates sometimes. You might be targeted by bullies like Medhi as well if you help t黑料官网se w黑料官网 are weak, but my advice is ‘don’t be a vigilante and stand up to them’, because you can win if you know you are right’. That’s about it, thanks for listening to everyone, have a nice day