Emotional Journey-Liam Daisley
Have you ever wanted to do something so bad, you can’t wait and it actually seems the days and hours are getting longer as you get close? I hadn’t seen my father for three years and I wanted to see him so bad, I also wanted to move the United States of America which had been my dream since I was a little child. My dad had left for the United States when his business failed and he had to find a job which was better than his business and after a few years he decided to move his family as well.
I was excited and couldn’t wait until the last week I had to spend in Greenock but then I realized what I was about to live behind, most of my relatives and friends, my home, it was going to very hard for me to leave the place I called home for fifteen years.
It was very early in the morning when I got up, the light blue sky, it had never looked so beautiful, the grass and bushes still filled with the early morning due. I got in my mums car and we drove to my grandparents to say the final goodbye. It was about an hour away from where I lived. I kept my head outside the window most of the time enjoying the breeze and thinking about what I was about to live behind. I got to my grandparents house which we used to call “the village” and as usual, my grandparents were so happy to see us. It is a very pretty sight, my grandmother singing very joyfully, my cousins rushing from the garden with fruits. I remember that day I had strawberries, pineapples and berries that my grandfather used to pick himself. After lunch which I didn’t eat because I had too much fruit, we headed home where I was very anxious to see my girlfriend who had skipped school to say goodbye but the ride took longer than I anticipated so by the time we got home, it was time to head off to the airport, the longest yet shortest journey I have ever had to travel. It was like my heart was being ripped in half and also being mended at the same time because I had to leave my home but I also wanted to see my dad who I hadn’t seen for a while, my mum was driving, me, my little brother and sister who I was to travel with sat in the back of the car with a few of our cousins. We faced the direction we were coming from, watching everything fade away one by one from our site.
