Milly
Well-known member
Hello there, I've been registered for a while but have only just gotten up the nerve to actually post on here. I never quite know what to say in these things, but here goes:
I'm a 24-year-old girl (I hesitate to use the word "woman"; it implies a level of wisdom and competence and general not-being-a-total-fresia-upness that I can't even aspire to) currently living in England, although this isn't where I was born. I'm from a place called Sarajevo in what is now Bosnia - some of the older people on here might remember Sarajevo from the early part of the 90s, when the city was under siege. Without wanting to go too much into details, my father and I came to England after my mother was killed in the siege. I saw her die.
We eventually settled here as refugees, and I've grown up in England and Wales. When I first came over I couldn't speak English and my clothes weren't very good, so I got picked on an awful lot in school. We kept moving around the country too, so I never really put down roots anywhere. I've lived in several different parts of London, which is probably as close to a home town I've got here, but this was interspersed with different spells in different places.
Basically - I never stayed anywhere long enough to make friends; I was constantly the new girl; being obviously foreign, shy and nervous, I was an easy target for bullies. Simply put, I never made any friends through school. I've pretty much not made any friends anywhere. Ever.
I left school at 16 because I had to look after my father, who was badly affected by the war and was, by then, a broken man. He died a few years ago. So now, without any family or friends, I'm pretty much perfectly alone.
Seriously, I don't even have a phone. No point.
So, umm, that's why I'm here. I don't want to go too far too soon and write a big massive self-absorbed thing that'll alienate people before I've even started, so I'll shut up now. Thanks for reading!
I'm a 24-year-old girl (I hesitate to use the word "woman"; it implies a level of wisdom and competence and general not-being-a-total-fresia-upness that I can't even aspire to) currently living in England, although this isn't where I was born. I'm from a place called Sarajevo in what is now Bosnia - some of the older people on here might remember Sarajevo from the early part of the 90s, when the city was under siege. Without wanting to go too much into details, my father and I came to England after my mother was killed in the siege. I saw her die.
We eventually settled here as refugees, and I've grown up in England and Wales. When I first came over I couldn't speak English and my clothes weren't very good, so I got picked on an awful lot in school. We kept moving around the country too, so I never really put down roots anywhere. I've lived in several different parts of London, which is probably as close to a home town I've got here, but this was interspersed with different spells in different places.
Basically - I never stayed anywhere long enough to make friends; I was constantly the new girl; being obviously foreign, shy and nervous, I was an easy target for bullies. Simply put, I never made any friends through school. I've pretty much not made any friends anywhere. Ever.
I left school at 16 because I had to look after my father, who was badly affected by the war and was, by then, a broken man. He died a few years ago. So now, without any family or friends, I'm pretty much perfectly alone.
Seriously, I don't even have a phone. No point.
So, umm, that's why I'm here. I don't want to go too far too soon and write a big massive self-absorbed thing that'll alienate people before I've even started, so I'll shut up now. Thanks for reading!
