Stories from My Life

Never turn your back when you leave your room clean.

You know how this goes. Just when you think you are done cleaning your room, your siblings come and ruin the hard work you put in and make it all a mess.

When this happens to me, I try to make my sisters clean the room again, but as you can see, these pin heads didn’t and instead, they decided that it would be fun to play on my bed.

So my advice is that when you’re done cleaning your room make sure that you lock the door.

Have fun while you can, even when you’re walking around in circles.

Every Saturday I tend to spend my time at home on my bed watching videos on my phone, surrounded by junk food. But this Saturday I decided to learn something new and went to tutoring.

After two hours I was exhausted from all that information I was storing in my head. My mum decided to take us to her friend’s house to help her prepare for a party. I saw my friend there.

We grew bored in the house and decided to go the deli and get some sweets. Nour wanted to use her phone for directions, even though she knew the way to the deli. We started walking to the park and then she made us walk around in circles. The deli was just across the park.

I felt like pushing her of the bridge because we spent 20 minutes walking around in circles in hot weather. We came back from the deli with 4 bags of sweets, but I made sure she got only one bag of sweets.

Give in to the power of fun.

Even though they are a year older than her, my sister is having fun with her friends.

Khanssa Guma Abdalla

Age 15

Born in Egypt, most recently from Sudan.