A day in my life, in my shoes, a day in the shoes of a teenager who lives in a house of seven people!

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Growing up in a relatively larger-than-average household with seven people who are somehow related to you in one way or another, life is pretty hectic; especially when you're a 15 year-old teenager with hormones raging inside of you. It is known that young people at this stage of their lives feel that the whole world is against them. And let me tell you: It's absolutely true! (Not the idea of everyone being against us but that kind of feeling.) Don't believe me? Let me take you out on a day in my life, in my shoes, a day in the shoes of a teenager who lives in a house of seven people!

"Good morning, it's Hughesy, Kate and Dave on Nova 100..."

Tangled in my doona, I wriggled over on my back and reached in the darkness of my room and found the bedside table. Moving my hand around the surface of the table I eventually found the alarm clock and commenced my search for the off button. Rubbing the sleep out of my eyes, I heaved myself out of bed and shook the doona off me.

Suddenly a blinding light filled the room just as I was opening my eyes! Thankfully my peripheral nervous system was wide awake and my hands shielded my eyes and saved them from becoming blind.
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"Get up!"

It was Dad.

"Do you realize what time it is?!" he said in a hoarse whisper, loud enough for his message to be clear but soft enough so the rest of the house could rest in slumber in their warm, cozy beds...

I looked at my alarm clock. It was 5:30.

I cursed the first alarm for not waking me up and gathered up my uniform. I managed to pull my uniform on by the end of the one and a half metre journey from my room to the bathroom. Staring ...

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