Diary of a pretty Girl Learn English through story level 3

young people

should be given chances in life

especially the chance

of a good education

sometimes

that means going to study in another

country

far from home

and family

young tuaine

is at school in new zealand

but her home

is on a south sea island

where the warm waters of the lagoon

are as blue

as the sky above

[Music]

june

20

i am going to use this big notebook

for my diary

and write down everything i feel and do

i brought the book with me when i left

home

i used it for english

at my school back home

and when i left there was still plenty

of pages not written on

so it will be good for a diary

at home

i read a story called the diary of anne

frank

it was a very sad story

but i read it lots of times

ann said

it made her feel better to write things

down

it helped her with all those troubles

she had

so

maybe my diary will help me feel better

too

tomorrow

it will be two months

since i left home to come here

61 days

just two numbers when i write it like

that

61 days

but

it is the slowest and longest time i can

remember

how can 61 days go so slowly

i still think of home all the time

and i can remember

every little thing about the island

except

how warm it was

i can’t remember that

because

here

it is so cold all the time

but when i lie here

and close my eyes

i can see my friends

and my family

and all my favorite places

and the big black rock where we swam in

the lagoon

and the path that goes to the top of our

mountain

and the cool wind at the top

and if sometimes i can’t remember

everything

there are the photos by my bed

and all my seashells

when i was a baby

i was given to my grandparents

because i was the youngest in our family

and that is our custom

my real parents live on another island

our village is called

and our house

is a little bit back from the road that

goes through the village

by the hill

when the last big storm

called sharon

came

the waves from the lagoon came right

over the road

but not as far as our garden which was

lucky

the wind blew all the flowers out of our

garden

but at least the roof stayed on our

house

not like at melee’s place

a great piece of metal blew off their

roof right over the house

and cut their goat’s head off

it was terrible for the poor animal

there were some bad things that happened

in our village

like sharon

and some accidents on the motorbikes

but mostly there were good things

and i remember the good things

not the bad things

school was good too

i liked it at the college

and i nearly always came top of my class

but i’m sorry about that now

it was coming top

that probably sent me away

we had exams in the first term

and i came first or second in every exam

mr ashton the teacher

came to our house

and said to mama and papa that our

school on the island

wasn’t good enough for me

that i should go to school in new

zealand

mama and papa talked about it to uncle

george

i was worried

because i didn’t want to go away

but they talked about it again with mr

ashton

and all my family put in some money for

the plane

and sent me here

to auntie vallines

aunty vaine is my mother’s cousin

and she has been living in auckland for

over 20 years

there’s four of us here in her house

auntie

tar

he’s 17

marlene

and me

marlene and i sleep in the same bedroom

she’s six

the week after i arrived

auntie bought me a uniform

and i started at the girls college

i’ve got to stop my diary now

the video has finished

and marlene wants to go to bed

june

25

at first

auntie was friendly

she asked me all about home

and all the relations she hadn’t seen

for so long

and she told me the things she used to

do when she was a girl on the island

then she asked me

how much money did i bring with me from

the island

and i said i didn’t bring any

and she got a bit angry

i told her mama and papa didn’t have any

money to give me

and they told me that auntie had a good

job

and earned plenty of money

auntie said she worked in the chicken

factory

but she didn’t get much money

and most of it went on paying the rent

for the house

then

i asked her where was my uncle

i didn’t like to ask about him at first

because perhaps he had left her or

something

auntie started crying then

and told me about the accident

uncle ben worked for a building company

that made bridges

one day

one of those very long heavy pieces of

metal

fell on him

his back was broken

and he died in hospital

i told her

i was very sorry i didn’t know about the

accident

nobody at home heard about it

she said

uncle ben didn’t come from our islands

he was from nowhere

so she only told his family

i felt really sad for auntie then

and bad that i came to live with her

when she didn’t have enough money

july

1

i haven’t been able to write in my diary

recently

i have had too much schoolwork to do

school is very hard here

but the teachers are nice

my class teacher mrs price is best

she’s great

she introduced me to lots of girls

but they aren’t from my island

their samoans

and their language is very strange to me

the school is so big too

over a thousand girls

and so many rooms

it is scary

in a school where there are so many

strangers

everyone seems cleverer than me

their english is so good

i try hard to keep up

but i get much lower marks than i did at

home

i don’t have enough time to do my work

that’s the trouble

auntie is working evenings at the

chicken factory

and i have to get the dinner every night

the only place i can study is in the

bedroom

and the noise from the video is so bad

every night

tar gets some videos and always they are

noisy full of shooting and wars and

shouting

i hate that sylvester stallone

i think it’s bad for tara to watch just

that kind of video

marlene too

yesterday

i went and asked tar please could he

turn the video down

because i was trying to study in my room

and he got angry and shouted bad words

at me

he thinks he’s so special

what a laugh

he’s just a stupid boy who can’t get a

job

he won’t turn down the video

i’m going to bed now

july

it’s sunday

but we didn’t go to church

auntie used to go to church but she

never goes now

when i asked why

she said she didn’t believe in god

anymore

i thought that was terrible

and i asked her why

she said it was because god took uncle

ben away from them and left them with no

one to take care of them

and not enough money

i don’t know if that’s right

but i can understand the way auntie

feels

i’m not sure about god

he can be very cruel sometimes

even to good people like anne frank

and uncle ben

in the afternoon

we took the bus to visit uncle ben’s

grave

there is a smiling photo on the grey

stone

in shiny black letters

benjamin

feligi

aged 48 years

much loved husband and father

we all cried at the grave

even tar

when auntie put the flowers on it

in the photo on his grave

uncle ben looks like he was a nice man

july 10

i didn’t go to school today

i wanted to

but it’s a long way and i have to get

the bus

and the bus ticket costs a lot of money

auntie said she didn’t have any money

left

she was getting angry with me

so i thought i will walk to school

tomorrow instead of getting the bus

today

i tried to do my schoolwork by myself at

home

but i didn’t do very well

july

11

i am very tired tonight

this morning i got up at six o’clock and

made some sandwiches for my lunch

and i left before any of the others were

up

it was still dark

and very scary because there was nobody

in the streets

i walked right down dominion road

and slowly the sky got lighter

my school bag was hurting my shoulder

and i was trying to remember the way the

bus went

from the time when i had a ticket

in the end

i got to the school

but it took a long long time

and i was late

and the teacher at the gate took my name

and i had a detention

that was the first time i ever had one

my class teacher mrs price

asked me why i was late

i didn’t like to tell her my auntie

didn’t have any money for the bus

so i said i slept in

mrs price asked me how i was getting on

here

and she seemed a bit worried

at lunchtime

she brought a fifth form girl called

moana

who was from my country

to see me

moana and i talked in our language

she doesn’t come from my island

but i knew some cousins of hers

i enjoyed talking to moana

but it made me sad

because i began thinking about home

and all the people i knew

when i told moana about walking to

school

she took me to the school library

and showed me a street map

we saw that there was a much shorter way

for me to come to school

i don’t have to follow the bus route

moana asked me if i would like to come

to her place one day

but

i saw on the map

that she lives at te atatu

too far away from my place

i walked home that quick away that i

found on the map

but

because of my detention

i didn’t get home until six o’clock

i am very tired tonight

i can’t ride anymore

july

12

auntie gave me two dollars this morning

i had to decide if i will spend it on

the bus fare

or some lunch

there was only fried bananas for

breakfast

because auntie doesn’t get paid until

tomorrow

so

i decided to walk to school and buy my

lunch

at the end of one street there was a

bridge over the motorway that was just

for pedestrians

i stopped and looked down at the

motorway

all those cars

it was like a great river running into

the city

then it started to rain

it rained and rained

very heavy

like it does at home

but very cold

i don’t have a coat or jacket

so i got wet through

on my hair down my neck on my legs in my

shoes

i kept on walking towards school

and getting wetter and wetter and colder

and colder

then i saw a clock on a building that

said five minutes to nine

that was too late for school

so i turned round and walked home again

and i was so cold

i had to get into bed to keep warm

i didn’t get up

until marlene came home from school

july

auntie is working daytime at the factory

now

so she told marlene and me to stay home

from school

and do the shopping

we walked to the supermarket

and after we had done the shopping there

was some money left over

we were very hungry

so

i got us some kentucky fried chicken for

lunch

it was so good

marlene and i took the chicken to the

park

and hit it there

when people went past us they stared

i knew they were thinking

why aren’t those girls at school

maybe they would tell the police

so i said to marlene

come on

we ought to get home now

i felt bad about using auntie’s money

for kentucky fried chicken

and i told marlene not to say we had it

i won’t do that again

i went to bed in the afternoon

i didn’t feel very well

my head aches

and i think i’m getting a cold

july

18

i didn’t write in my diary for a few

days

because i stayed in bed with a really

bad cold

i felt miserable

i’ve missed a lot of school now

and i don’t know how i will catch up

exams are next month

and i’m very worried about them

always at home i did well in exams

but i can’t hear

i lie on my bed

and stare at my photos

and the trochus shell that papa gave me

when i put the shell to my ear

i can hear the lagoon whispering to me

the trochus shells are very special to

us

once every year

the people from the villages can get the

trochus from the lagoon

but only a few for each family

so there will always be more for next

year

the shells are polished for the tourists

but papa polished this strokus

just for me

and it is so beautiful

with all the different colors

it is like holding a rainbow in my hand

even the darkness here

doesn’t stop the trochus from shining

july 19

i had a very bad day today

when i woke up

i decided i must go to school

and catch up my work

so i will do well in exams

and get a good report to send home to

mama and papa

so

i said to auntie

i’m going back to school i’m walking but

please could i have some money for my

lunch

then auntie got very mad

and she shouted at me

i’ve got no money left for you i haven’t

even got enough money for my own

children

why did you have to come here anyway

i told her i didn’t really want to come

and i’m sorry for all this trouble i am

giving her

i said

i don’t like it here and i want to go

home

auntie got even angrier and said she

didn’t even have enough money for the

bus

so how is she going to pay for a plane

ticket

she said

she didn’t ask me to come here

she only said yes

because she couldn’t say no to her

family

she said

if i want to go home

my family should send the money to pay

and i said they couldn’t

because they spent all their money

sending me here

i felt really miserable then

and ran out of the room crying

everything here is money

money for food money for buses

money for warm clothes money for shoes

back home

we only need money for the motorbike

and a bit of food from the shop

we get everything from the lagoon and

the fields

and we don’t worry about money

but here

money makes me frightened

because there isn’t enough

and i feel bad that auntie has to get

more because of me

i don’t know what to do

there is no telephone here to ring

or at home

all i can do is lie on my bed

and stare at my photos

and hold my trochus shell

no school again today

july

20

raining again

i didn’t go to school

i did some cleaning in the house

and watched some tv

there was a knock on the door

but i didn’t answer it

the person put a letter in the letterbox

and later

i went out to get it

it was a dress to auntie

and i opened it

it said because i hadn’t been to school

my auntie should visit the school

immediately

i put the letter in the rubbish

i don’t want auntie to get mad again

but i’m

worried

i know it’s against the law to not go to

school but i can’t go back

i’m too far behind

perhaps i can leave school

and get a job in an office

that would help auntie with the money

july

21

so much happened today

i never had a day like it in my life

tar gave me some money for the bus

and told me how to get downtown

i caught the bus

and ended up in queens street

the first time i have been there

so many grand buildings

it was like a tv program

i began to walk up queen street

but there was a freezing cold wind

and then it started to rain

and felt even colder

i couldn’t stop staring in the shop

windows

all those lovely things

in one shop they were ceiling holidays

and there was a big photograph of home

showing my island

it was a very beautiful picture

the lagoons so blue

and the sea all around so dark

and the whiteness

where the waves break on the reef round

the lagoon

i wanted to say to people in the street

look

there’s my island

isn’t it beautiful

but all the people were just hurrying

past

not stopping

not noticing

i kept on walking up queen street

i was looking for a clothes shop

because i needed a jacket

the wind went right through my clothes

i felt i wasn’t wearing anything at all

i came to a very big shop

and went in

there were lots and lots of jackets

but i saw one of the shop people staring

at me

so i went back out into the cold

and kept on walking

after a while

i came to another shop which sold

jackets

i was very worried about what i was

going to do but i was so cold

and i didn’t really care how wrong it

was

i just didn’t want to get caught

i went into the shop

and started looking at the jackets

i had a white supermarket bag in my

pocket

and i got it out

took a blue jacket

and put it in the bag as quickly as i

could

my hands were shaking

and i wanted to run but instead

i walked around slowly

and pretended to look at some coats

then i walked out

i didn’t stop

until i got to the bridge over the

motorway

i took out the jacket

and saw the price on it

125

i put it on

it was so warm

it’s got wool inside and it keeps the

rain out and everything

i wore it to just before i got home

then

i put it back in the bag

and hid it under my bed

july 22

i couldn’t sleep all last night

it was very bad to take that jacket from

the shop

the church says you must not steal

and i can’t forget that

i have heard it all my life

i won’t wear the jacket again

i am too ashamed

and frank did not steal

not even food when she was nearly dead

from hunger

july

23

saturday today

tar got three videos

all fighting and shooting

i can hear through the wall

and it sounds like a war is going on

at home

on saturday night

we used to go across to the big holiday

hotel

on the little island of tokoa

we used to sit under the trees and have

fruit drinks

and watch the dancing for the tourists

it was beautiful there

and i love the dancing and the music

i want to dance at tokoa when i am older

i decided what to do about the jacket

on monday

i will take it back to the shop

july

25

so much happened today

i will have to write it down very

carefully to make sure i don’t miss

anything

when i woke up

i put the jacket in my school bag

and told my auntie i’m going to school

i walked into town

and waited until it was after nine

o’clock

then

i walked to the shop

there weren’t many people inside

and i went over to where the jackets

were and quickly started to take the

jacket out of my bag

but as i did it

i looked up

and saw a lady with gray hair

watching me from the other side of some

dresses

she saw what i was doing

and came over

what are you doing did you take this

she said

her voice was very cross

i couldn’t explain to her that i was

bringing it back because i had taken it

before

i thought she wouldn’t believe me

she said

come with me

and she took my arm

and we went over to the back of the shop

i started to cry

we went into an office

and there was a man in there sitting at

a desk

he was a young man

in a suit

the lady told him she had found me

taking the jacket

and the man said is this right

and i just nodded

i couldn’t stop crying

so i couldn’t explain

i will have to go to court i thought

and my family will be so ashamed of me

the man told me to sit down

and he rang someone on his telephone

it’s a shoplifter he said

then the man asked me my name

and my address

and my school

and i told him those things

after a bit a police lady came in

and the shop lady went out

the police lady was young and pretty

with dark hair

she sat down

and asked me questions in a kind voice

and it was easier to talk to her than

those other ones

i told her all about the jacket

and what i

did she said to the man

i think she’s telling the truth

and i think we should talk to someone

from the school first

the man looked cross but he said

all right

i have to agree

this is unusual

very unusual the police lady said

i never heard of a shoplifter who took

back what she stole

she smiled at me

and asked

who would you like us to talk to from

school

when mrs price came in

she looked just as usual

not worried or anything

but i started crying again

because i was so ashamed

and she sat down next to me and said

don’t worry to aine

everything will be all right

then she and the police lady talked

and they seemed really friendly to each

other

i don’t think the shop manager liked

that

and he still looked angry

mrs price asked me why i hadn’t been to

school

she has got gray hair

but her face is young

and she talks in a very kind way

i told her about the money and auntie

and my uncle

and how he was killed

and about the exams

and how i was worried about them

and how i got cold when i went out

and how i took the jacket

i said i was very ashamed for what i did

when my story was finished

mrs price looked at the police lady

and then they both looked at the manager

the police lady said

the jacket has been returned mr jackson

and i really don’t think this girl is a

thief

the manager didn’t look at her

but he nodded his head

i said to him

i’m very sorry i took your jacket

i will never do it again

he stood up

and nodded again

and mrs price said

i’ll take you home now

to aine

mrs price and i sat in her car outside

my house

she talked slowly

and i felt she was thinking deeply about

everything she was saying

she said

we can give you extra lessons at school

to help you catch

and i’ll find out

if your auntie can get some money from

the government

i’m sure she can

that will help with the clothes problem

then

mrs price stopped

and she looked at me for a long time

without speaking

she has very clear gray eyes

very kind and understanding

and her eyes

seemed to see a long way into me

or

she said in a slow voice

would you just like us to arrange

for you to go home

i looked back into those gray kind eyes

the way she said it

i knew it was really possible

tears came back into my eyes

through them

i saw a house

and

faces and the lagoon

shining and blue

i would like to go home

i said

you

应该给年轻人生活机会，

尤其是接受

良好教育的机会，

有时

这意味着要去另一个

远离家乡

和家人的国家学习

Young

tuaine 在新西兰上学，

但她的家

位于南海岛屿

上

泻湖像天空一样蓝

[音乐]

6 月

20 日

我要用这个大笔记本

做我的日记

，写下我的所有感受，

我离开家时把这本书带在身上

我用它来写

英语 我回家的学校

，当我离开时，还有

很多页面没有写，

所以

在家里

写日记会很好 我读了一个叫做安妮弗兰克日记的故事，

这是一个非常悲伤的故事，

但我读了很多次

安说

，把事情写下来让她感觉好多

了，

它帮助她解决了

她遇到的所有麻烦，

所以

也许我的日记明天也会帮助我感觉好

一点。距离

我离开家来到这里已有两个月了

61 天

只有两个数字，当我 写下来 就像

那样

61 天，

但这是我能记得的最慢和最长的时间

61 天怎么会过得如此缓慢，

我仍然一直想家

，我记得

岛上的每一件小事，

除了

它有多温暖

我不记得了 因为

这里

一直都很冷，

但是当我躺在

这里闭上眼睛时，

我可以看到我的朋友

和家人

，所有我最喜欢的地方

，还有我们在泻湖里游泳的黑色大岩石，

还有通往 我们

的山顶和山顶凉爽的风，

如果有时我不记得

所有的东西，

还有我床边的照片

和我所有的贝壳

当我还是个婴儿时，

我被送给了我的祖父母，

因为我是我们家中最小的

那是我们的习俗，

我真正的父母住在另一个岛上，

我们的村庄被称为

我们的房子，而我们的房子

离穿过村庄的山路稍远，

当最后一场叫做沙龙的大风暴来袭时

，泻湖的海浪来了

超过 这条路，

但没有到我们的花园，

幸运

的是，风把我们花园里的所有花都吹走了，

但至少屋顶留在我们的

房子上，

不像在混战的地方，

一块巨大的金属从

房子的屋顶上吹了下来

， 砍掉他们的山羊头

这对可怜的动物

来说太可怕了 我们村里发生了一些不好的事情，

比如沙龙

，还有一些摩托车事故，

但大多数都是好事

，我记得好事

不是坏事

学校也很好

我在大学里很喜欢它，

而且我几乎总是在班上名列前茅，

但我很抱歉现在

它名列前茅

，这可能让我离开了

我们在第一学期有考试

，我在每次考试中都名列前茅，

阿什顿先生 老师

来到我们家

对妈妈和爸爸说我们

岛上的学校

对我来说不够好

，我应该去新西兰上学

妈妈和爸爸把这件事告诉乔治叔叔

我很担心

因为我没有 哇 不打算离开，

但他们又和阿什顿先生谈了这件事

，我全家都花了一些钱买

了飞机，

然后把我送到了

瓦林阿姨瓦恩阿姨瓦恩阿姨

是我母亲的表妹

，她在奥克兰生活

了 20 多年，

有四个 我们在她家

tar 姨妈

他 17 岁

marlene

和我

marlene 我和我睡在同一个卧室

她六岁

我到达后的一周

姨妈给我买了一件制服

，我开始上女子大学

我现在必须停止我的日记

了 视频结束了

，marlene 想在

6 月

25

日上床睡觉，

阿姨很友好，

她问我关于家的

一切，以及她很久没见的所有关系

，她告诉我她小时候经常做的事情

在岛上

然后她问

我从岛上带了多少钱

，我说我没有带

，她有点生气

我告诉她妈妈和爸爸没有

钱给我

，他们 告诉我阿姨有一份好

工作

，赚的很多 有钱的

阿姨说她在鸡肉厂工作，

但她没有得到多少钱

，大部分都用于支付房子的租金

然后

我问她我的叔叔在哪里

我一开始不想问他

因为也许他已经离开了她，或者

是什么事情

阿姨开始

哭着告诉我

本叔叔为一家建造桥梁的建筑公司工作的事故

有

一天，那些很长很重的金属片

掉到了他身上，

他的背被摔断了

，他死在了 医院

我告诉她

我很抱歉我不知道这

起事故

家里没有人听说过

她说

本叔叔不是来自我们的岛屿

他是从哪里来

所以她只告诉他的家人

我当时真的为阿姨感到难过

可惜我

在她 7 月 1 日没有足够的钱时来和她住在一起

我最近无法在日记中写字

我有太多的功课要

上学 在这里很辛苦，

但是老师们

很好 班主任夫人价格是最好的

太好了，

她向我介绍了很多女孩，

但她们不是来自我的岛屿，

她们的萨摩亚人

，她们的语言对我来说很陌生。

学校太大

了，超过一千个女孩

，房间太多，

在有学生的学校里太可怕了 这么多

陌生人

每个人似乎都比我聪明

他们的英语很好

我努力跟上

但我的分数比我在家的低很多

我没有足够的时间做我的工作

这是

阿姨晚上工作的麻烦

鸡肉工厂

和我每天晚上都得吃晚饭

我唯一可以学习的地方是

卧室，

而且每天晚上视频的噪音都很糟糕

焦油会收到一些视频，而且总是

充满枪击、战争和

大喊大叫，

我讨厌 那个西尔维斯特史泰龙

我觉得塔拉也看

那种视频

玛琳

昨天

我去问塔尔他能不能

把视频关掉，

因为我想在我的房间里学习

，他很生气，对我大喊大叫

他觉得他很

特别 多笑

他只是一个找不到工作的愚蠢男孩

他不会拒绝

我现在

7 月

5 日要睡觉的视频。

今天是星期天

但我们没有去教堂

阿姨 以前去教堂，但

现在她再也不去了，

当我问

她为什么说她不再相信上帝时

，

我觉得那很可怕

，我问她为什么

说这是因为上帝把

本叔叔从他们身边带走了，留给他们 没有

人照顾他们

而且没有足够的钱

我不知道这是否正确

但我能理解阿姨的

感受

我不确定上帝

他有时会非常残忍

甚至对像安妮弗兰克和本叔叔这样的好人

下午

我们乘公共汽车去参观本叔叔的

坟墓

灰色的石头上有一张亮黑色字母的微笑照片

本

杰明费利吉 48 岁

深受爱戴的丈夫和父亲

我们都在坟墓前哭了，

当阿姨把花放在坟墓上时，我们都哭了。

在他坟墓上的照片中，

本叔叔看起来很不错 男人

7 月 10 日

我今天没去上学

我想去，

但是路很远，我

必须坐公共汽车

，而且公共汽车票要花很多钱

阿姨说她没钱

了，

她很生气 我，

所以我想明天我会步行去上学，

而不是

今天

坐公共汽车 我试着在家里自己做功课，

但我做得不好

7

月 11 日

我今晚很累

今天早上六点起床 时钟，

为我的午餐做了一些三明治

，我在其他任何人起床之前离开

了

它仍然

很黑，非常可怕，因为街上没有人

我沿着自治领路走下去

，天空慢慢变亮了

我的书包伤了我的 肩膀

，我试图记住

从我有票的时候公共汽车

的路线最后

我到了学校，

但是花了很长时间

，我迟到

了，门口的老师取了我的名字

，我 有一个拘留

，这是我第一次有一个

我的班级教员 她的价格夫人

问我为什么迟到

我不想告诉她我的阿姨

没有钱坐公共汽车

所以我说我睡在

价格夫人问我在这里过得怎么样

她似乎有点担心

午餐时间，

她带来了一个名叫 moana 的五年级女孩

，她来自我的国家

，来看我

moana，我用我们的语言交谈，

她不是来自我的岛屿，

但我知道她的一些表亲，

我喜欢和 moana 交谈，

但这让我感到难过

因为

当我告诉莫阿娜步行去学校时，

我开始

想家和我认识的所有人 不必走公共汽车路线

moana 问我是否愿意

有一天去她家，

但

我在地图上

看到她住在 te atatu

离我家太远

我走回家的速度很快，我

发现 地图，

但

由于我被拘留，

我直到六点才

回家 今晚

我很累我不能再骑了

7

月 12 日

阿姨今天早上给了我两美元

我不得不决定是

花在公共汽车车费上

还是午餐

上 早餐只有炸香蕉，

因为阿姨要到直到

明天

所以

我决定步行去学校买

午餐

在一条街的尽头高速公路上有一座仅供行人使用的

桥

我停下来看着

高速公路上

所有的汽车

就像一条大河

流入 城市

然后开始

下雨下雨了，雨下

得很大，

就像在家里一样，

但是

很冷 去学校

，越来越湿，

越来越冷，

然后我看到一座建筑物上的时钟，上面

写着五分钟到九点

，上学已经太晚了，

所以我转身又走回家

，我太冷了，

我不得不上床睡觉 为了保暖

我没有 起床

直到marlene

7月

13

日放学回家。阿姨现在白天在工厂工作，

所以她告诉marlene和我

不要放学回家

购物，

我们步行去超市

，购物后

有一些钱 剩下的

我们很饿，

所以

我给我们买了一些肯德基炸鸡作为

午餐，

这真是太好了

玛琳，我把鸡带到

公园

，然后

当人们经过我们时，他们盯着它，

我知道他们在想

为什么不是那些 学校里的女孩

也许她们会告诉警察

所以我对玛琳说，

快点

我们现在应该回家

了

我下午睡觉了

我感觉不太好

我的头疼

，我想我感冒了

7

月 18 日

我有几天没写日记了，

因为我得了重感冒躺在床上

我感到很痛苦，

我错过了很多学校

哦，现在我不知道下个月我会如何赶上

考试

，我很担心他们

总是在家里我考试考得很好

但我听不见

我躺在

床上盯着我的照片

和

当我把贝壳放在耳边时，爸爸给我的 trochus 贝壳

我能听到泻湖对我耳语

trochus 贝壳对我们来说非常特别，

每年一次

，村里的人可以

从泻湖中得到 trochus，

但只有少数 给每个家庭，

所以明年总会有更多

贝壳是为游客抛光的，

但爸爸只为我抛光了这个 strokus

，它是如此美丽，

有各种不同的颜色

，就像我手里拿着彩虹一样，

即使是这里的黑暗

并没有阻止 trochus 的闪耀

7 月 19

日 今天我度过了非常糟糕的一天，

当我醒来时，

我决定我必须去上学

，赶上我的工作，

这样我才能在考试中

取得好成绩，并拿到一份好报告寄回家给

妈妈 和爸爸，

所以

我对阿姨说

我要回学校了 正在说话，但

请给我一些钱

吃午饭

然后阿姨很生气

，她冲我大喊

我没有钱给你我

什至没有足够的钱给我自己的

孩子

为什么你还是要来这里

我告诉她我真的不想来

，我很抱歉

给她带

来了这么多麻烦我说

我不喜欢这里，我想回家

阿姨更生气了说她

根本不想 有足够的钱买

公共汽车她怎么买机票

她说

她没有让我来这里

她只说是

因为她不能对她的家人说不

她说

如果我想回家

我的家人应该寄钱来付钱

，我说他们不能，

因为他们把所有的钱都花在了

把我送到这里时

我感到非常痛苦，

然后跑出房间哭着

说这里的一切都是

钱吃饭的钱公共汽车的

钱钱买暖和的衣服 回家买鞋的钱

我们只需要买摩托车的钱

和一些食物 商店

我们从泻湖和田野里得到所有东西

，我们不担心钱，

但这里的

钱让我害怕，

因为没有足够

的钱，我很难过阿姨必须得到

更多，因为我

我不知道该怎么做 家里

没有电话可以响

吗 我能做的就是躺在我的

床上盯着我的

照片拿着我的 trochus shell

今天又没有上学

7

月 20 日又

下雨了

我没去上学

我做了一些清洁工作

进屋看了看电视

有人敲门

但我没有回答

那人在信箱里放了一封信

后来

我出去

拿它是给阿姨的衣服

我打开

它说因为我 没上过学

我阿姨应该马上去学校

我把信

扔进垃圾箱 我不想阿姨再生气，

但我

担心

我知道不去学校是违法的，

但我可以 t go back

我太落后了，

也许我可以离开学校

，在一个办公室里找到一份工作

d 帮阿姨拿钱

7

月 21 日

今天发生了这么多

我一生中从未有过这样的一天

tar 给了我一些公共汽车的钱

并告诉我如何去市中心

我赶上了公共汽车

并第一次来到了皇后

街 我去过

那么多宏伟的建筑

，就像一个电视节目

我开始沿着皇后街走，

但是有一股冰冷的风

，然后开始下雨

，感觉更冷了，

我无法停止盯着商店

橱窗

看那些 可爱的东西

在一家商店他们是天花板假期

，有一张家庭的大照片

展示了我的岛屿

这是一张非常美丽的

照片泻湖如此蓝色

，周围的大海如此黑暗

以及

海浪在泻湖周围的礁石上拍打的白色

我想对街上的人说，

看看我的岛

是不是很漂亮，

但所有的人都只是匆匆

过去，

没有停下来，

没有注意到

我一直在皇后街上走，

我在找一家服装店，

因为我需要一个

夹克 风穿过我的衣服

我觉得我什么都没穿

我来到一家很大的商店

，进去了，

那里有很多很多夹克，

但我看到一个商店的人

盯着我看，

所以我回去了 冒着

冷风继续走

一会儿，

我来到了另一家卖

夹克的商店 不想被抓住

我走进

商店开始看夹克

我口袋里有一个白色的超市袋

，我把它拿出

来拿了一件蓝色夹克

，尽快把它放进袋子里

我的手在颤抖

， 我想跑但是

我慢慢地走来

走去假装看着一些外套

然后我走了

我没有停下

直到我到达高速公路上的桥

我拿出

夹克看到上面的价格

125

我放了它

上面很暖和

，里面有羊毛，可以

防雨。 7 月 22 日

，我在回家前把它穿到

了包里

，然后把它藏在我的床底下，我

昨晚整晚都睡不着

，从商店里拿走那件夹克很糟糕，

教堂说你必须 不偷

，我不能忘记，

我这辈子都听过

我不会再穿这件夹克了

我太惭愧了

，弗兰克甚至没有偷

食物，当时她几乎

饿死了

7

月 23 日，

星期六，今天，

焦油得了三个

我能隔着墙听到所有打斗

和射击的视频，听起来周六

晚上家里

正在打仗

水果饮料

，为游客观看舞蹈，

那里很美

，我喜欢舞蹈和音乐

，我长大后想在 tokoa 跳舞

25

今天发生了这么多，

我得写下来 自己非常

小心，以确保我醒来时不会错过

任何东西

我把夹克放在书包

里告诉我阿姨我要去上学

我走进

城里等到九点

以后然后

我 走到商店

里面人不多

，我走到夹克所在

的地方，迅速开始

从包里拿出夹克，

但当我这样做时，

我

抬头看到一位白发的女士在

看着我 一些衣服的另一面

她看到我在做什么

然后过来

你在做什么 你拿了这个

她说

她的声音很生气

我无法向她解释我

要把它拿回来 因为我

在

我想之前就拿走了 她不相信我

她说

跟我

来 她挽着我的

胳膊 我们走到商店后面

穿西装

的男人 女士告诉他，她发现我

拿走了夹克

，男人 sai d 这是对的

，我只是点点头，

我忍不住哭了，

所以我无法解释

我将不得不上法庭

他的

电话是小偷，他说

然后那个男人问我的名字

和地址

和我的学校

，我告诉他这些

事情过了一会儿，一个警察进来了

，那个店里的女人出去

了那个警察小姐年轻漂亮，

有一头黑发

她坐下

来用和蔼的声音问我问题，

与其他人交谈比与她交谈更容易，

我告诉她关于夹克

和我

做了什么她对那个男人说

我认为她说的是实话

，我认为我们应该

先跟学校里

的人说话 那人看起来很生气，但他说

好吧

我不得不同意

这很不寻常

非常不寻常 警察女士说

我从来没有听说过一个小偷

拿回她偷的东西

她对我笑了笑问

你会是谁

当 p 夫人时，喜欢我们在学校交谈 饭进来了，

她看起来像往常一样

不担心或什么，

但我又开始哭了，

因为我很羞愧

，她坐在我旁边

说别担心，

一切都会好起来的，

然后她和警察小姐说话

了 他们看起来真的很友好

我不认为商店经理喜欢

这样

，他仍然看起来很生气

价格夫人问我为什么我没有

上过学

她头发花白

但她的脸很年轻

而且她说话很

我以善意的方式告诉她关于钱、阿姨

和我叔叔的事

，他是如何被杀的

，还有考试的事

，我是如何担心他们的

，我出去的时候是怎么感冒的，我是

怎么穿上夹克的，

我说我很惭愧

当我的故事结束时我做了什么

普赖斯夫人看了看警察小姐

，然后他们俩都看了看

经理 警察小姐

说夹克已经退了 杰克逊先生

，我真的不认为这个女孩是

小偷 经理没有 不看她，

但他点了点头

迪对他说

对不起，我拿了你的夹克，

我再也不会这样做了

说得很慢

，我觉得她在深入思考

她所说的一切她说

我们可以在学校给你额外的课程

来帮助你赶上

，我会

看看你的阿姨是否可以从政府那里得到一些钱，

我相信她可以

这将有助于解决衣服问题

然后

价格夫人停了下来

，她看着我很长时间

没有说话

她有一双非常清澈的灰色眼睛

非常善良和

理解 她的眼睛

似乎很远看我

或者

她用缓慢的声音说

你愿意我们

安排你回家吗？

我回头看着她说的那双灰色和蔼的眼睛

我知道

眼泪真的有可能通过它们重新回到我的眼睛里

我看到了一座房子和一张

脸，还有

闪闪发光的泻湖 蓝色

我想回家

我说你