Story Archive
July 2008
Tuesday 01 July 2008
"She said to me, ‘I just can’t believe what I am seeing here’."
Friday 04 July 2008
"I realised I was on my own. I started to cry and to kick the door..."
Monday 07 July 2008
"It made me realise, I had taken more from him than he had given to me..."
Tuesday 08 July 2008
"He said 'No, you have to realise you're not the only child in this family'..."
Wednesday 09 July 2008
"I thought to myself - this was a very foreign place and I wish we had never come here."
Thursday 10 July 2008
"…he has never been encouraged, he has never been brought to do something like this…"
Friday 11 July 2008
"I walked and walked for what felt like ages. Then I couldn't bear the strain any more and I began to cry"
Monday 14 July 2008
"This was a world that you would probably never see again…"
Tuesday 15 July 2008
"I started to get this fear inside me…my goodness I’m gonna have to perform…"
Wednesday 16 July 2008
"It was very nerve racking and you’re in a clinical environment…you just feel very low and very lonely"
Thursday 17 July 2008
"It seemed like the ground was shaking and I couldn’t get my breath."
Friday 18 July 2008
"I thought 'I can’t believe what I just said'. As soon as I said it I couldn’t go back. The words were out…"
Saturday 19 July 2008
"I really envied him but it was a moment where I felt safe and protected..."
Sunday 20 July 2008
"I couldn’t open my eyes for a second to see where to run…"
Sunday 20 July 2008
"There was no two ways about it. We were petrified and scared stiff!"
Monday 21 July 2008
"I remember this amazing smell of fresh straw, pigs and aftershave..."
Tuesday 22 July 2008
"Friendships forged when we're young stay with us for the rest of our lives"
Wednesday 23 July 2008
"The car swept up around the driveway and glided to a halt…I could feel my excitement rise..."
Thursday 24 July 2008
"It was unbelievable…I just couldn’t comprehend it…"
Friday 25 July 2008
"I watched him intently…and by this stage I could hardly breathe."
Saturday 26 July 2008
"I do believe it would have haunted me until the end of my days"
Sunday 27 July 2008
"I was really disappointed. I was really upset because I thought I had finally got this connection…"
Monday 28 July 2008
"It was like entering a dark murky underworld…there was something almost sinister about it…"
Tuesday 29 July 2008
"It was the most exciting thing since I was born"
Wednesday 30 July 2008
"Everybody was looking up and me and I was looking down at them..."
Thursday 31 July 2008
"I wanted to say a lot. I felt a lot. But I felt incapable of expressing it because it was so big…"
