He was meant to be playing for the school team, but because he wasn’t up to it he was not picked. At that time, his dad was in the United Kingdom attending university. At nine years old he moved to another town away from the capital. Life there was different; some places in the town were visually stunning. This is where he met his cousins and twin uncles.
Everyday was not like the days he spent in the capital, but spectacular. He usually had to wake up early on weekends to go and sell some fish with his grand mother in the market. He realised that life was harsh. He felt he was living a world, which ought to be sentimental. During his time in the town Dabou, he was focused on study and house work.
His cousin used to make him laugh to make him feel better and he was also gregarious. He was going out a lot to have fun and he was quite friendly with the neighbourhood. His uncles had always kept pressure on him in order to make him succeed. At the end of the day, they were right the hard work and devotion pay him off.
After a year had passed, his mother decided he should leave Dabou. When he returned to Abidjan, his friends were delighted to see him back. He then started school for a year before the decisions making by his dad Isaac. This involved joining him in England. He changed dramatically and he became wise during his time spent at school.
He was intelligent, abase almost perfect he was able to act in a humble way toward someone. He was talented, successful and achieved excellent grades in his work. He had respect for elders; he had respect for younger people of his age too. All girls used to admire him for his performance. He was delighted to find out who his dad was, since he didn’t see him often in the Ivory Coast.
He took British airways plane from his country to the United Kingdom. That day was very emotional for him and a little sad for leaving his mother behind back in the Ivory Coast. Inside the plane he was travelling along with his dad’s friend. The plane at his view was enormous and like a space ship going to space, he was at the same time astounded.
He seemed very shocking and amazing for him as it was his first time to fly. The plane was wonderful from the inside and at the same time scary for him.
He was tired to stay in the plane for such a long time. Eventually, he arrived at Gatwick airport around seven in the morning. On that day he was astounded by the size of Gatwick airport in London and at the same time furious for the flashback memories.
On that day he didn’t know much to say, he was only able to speak French.
He was hearing plenty of nonsense around him and was lost in translation. His uncle was the father of four children now and was the first person amongst his dad family to come to the U.K. He was the one to pick me at the airport along with my dad.
The sky turns from blue to dark, when the wind was blowing up suddenly at top speed. The boy didn’t know where he was going; he was quiet for a while until he reached out his destination. He met his step mother and her children’s, he was abashed truly ashamed and embarrassed really. As soon he entered the house, he was abstruse firstly by the greeting and was astonished by the amazing decoration.
He reminded him of being in a castle full of gold and garden full of fresh fragrance. The house was extraordinary, like heaven full of compassion, beauty and love. He was like been welcome into a friendly home. Afterward he was introduced to his room; it was stunning, magnificent and reasonably warm.
His room smelt like an apple mixed with strawberry flavour melting in a bowl full of different ice cream flavour.
The sky was shining like the sun at the tropical of the Sahara desert at his room window. The window reflected the flowers in the back garden, the surroundings was peaceful like a grave. The whistle of the wind was scary like a ghost. He also reminded him of Halloween and seagulls back in his country.
In a few minutes he was time for a taste of spoon.
He inched, trekked and trudged towards the cooked meal. He was waiting to be served in a polite way, the food smelted like a cool refreshing natural sensation breeze from a tropical island. The kitchen was smooth and quite like a soothing sparkling ocean. The corridors were lively like an ominous rumble violent as a storm growling like a dog in the sky.
Those days were pure, changeable, solid, relaxing and emotional for him. He asked in French “Do you know an easy way of learning English faster”. His dad reply, yes it easy you could learn it in a week and it all up to you. “You can learn anything by been focus” Said Isaac his dad. Since his step mother didn’t picked a word, she mention “what did you tell him a while ago in her language”.
His dad smile and translated to her, he was admiring his dad for his superb work. On the same day he wanted to learn the basic rules of the English vocabulary. He was hard for him to practice with his dad thinking he would never know a word. Eventually he understood, but was still unable to speak fully well.
Half way the year he started year seven, most students were laughing at the way he spooks. His ascent was different from others students, he didn’t give up and was keeping trying harder. He wasn’t always on target, but at least shown some progress. He had truly friends from Jamaica and Portugal. He didn’t learn much during his first year and was sometime unfamiliar with new words.
Eventually, he moved to another school that was catholic. There, teachers were friendly and very supportive. His new school was mixed with different ethnic and background. Most students were quite friendly and helpful. He learnt new skills such as been cooperative and able to work in a team. That’s how his team work ability improved.
He meets many friends, and they were absolutely trustworthy. During lunch times he was playing football and sometimes was going to the library to do some research. His first choice at secondary school was to pick the subject that would have following him in his career. He made the wrong choices in some subjects, thinking they were wonderful.
Some of his friends denied him on his work, saying he is worthless and wouldn’t go far. He didn’t care much about what they thought of him, he kept his cool and was working hard has than he normally would. It’s a miracle he passed some subjects, but was still weak in a particular subject that would have given him the golden ticket to university.
During his two week of work experience in a supermarket, he was quite hard for him. He was waking up hourly in the morning to prepare and work for seven hours with only an hour break. He learnt how to be organised and help customers with different problems. He was always on time and motivated for the work.
During his work experience he was talented in calculation, trustworthy, open-minded and a hard working person with some recognised ability. His dads decide afterward to move to Leeds with him. His time in Leeds went well, he made many gentle friends and courageous ones two. After his GCSE his first choices were to do A levels.
He was a shame; he passed most subjects except the important one. He knew he could have done better. So he decides to improve his English by doing a stepping stones course. He realise that was a second chance to get back on his feet’s. Bravely he decided to stop messing around. He said “you can achieve anything if you got belief and don’t just believe, there is no point without hard work”.
His next choices were to do A levels after improved. He wanted to go to university to do a master degree. He wanted to do a career in business and engineering. These are the choices he made on the way of becoming educated. His others choices making by him, was to go work and becoming a manager.
Creates his own business and make plenty of money to earn his leaving.
The advantages of going to university would have earned him respect, better job, education and more money. In the other case going to work at a hourly age would have made him independent, responsible and experienced at certain things. The disadvantages are university is stress, too much authority and concern about rules. On the other side the disadvantages of him been at work at a younger age is been a miserable boss and low paid.
So that’s what he thought, but he decided to go for further education. To be sure, he could help people in his country and give them the opportunity to succeed like he would have.
