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I can only imagine …“Help”
my parents screamed, “whatever you do stick together”. The
waves crashed over the boat the first night at sea. The
waves were brutal and enormous. More than once our small
boat almost capsized leaving us to drown in a depthless,
unforgiving and never-ending sea. “No mummy; I want to go
home,” my sister cried, kicking and screaming at the top of
her lungs. The waves grew bigger and bigger, and our small
boat was filling up with water so quickly as the fierce
storm threatened to take our lives. My parents looked up
above the thick pitch-black sky wandering, WHY? Why was this
happening? When will we finally reach our salvation in
Thailand or were we destined to die out here in the deep
depths of this hungry, relentless sea?
It seemed like an eternity
before we were finally there. We were just off the coast of
Thailand when the most terrifying thing happened. One of the
people on a different boat died. I couldn’t believe that
their family and friends were actually eating a family
member! It wasn’t normal. How could you eat someone who was
in your own family? Someone who was your own flesh and
blood! Someone you know so well! We finally made it to
Thailand but had to hide from the sea pirates and ended up
in a temple. After a month in the temple we were taken from
there and put into prison for two years, then we finally
came here to Australia.
This is what I imagine
would have happened on the trip to Thailand but there was so
much more that I don’t know. I was lucky I didn’t have to
experience this because I wasn’t born yet. My dream is for
things like this to never happen again to my parents or to
anyone! I want them to live happily without having to work,
just enjoy themselves and have a good time.
The second part of my
dream is to be successful so I can help people. I would like
to be successful in a profession where I can help save
people from life threatening illnesses like cancer. Whether
it is in science, medicine or any other profession, I would
like to help save people so that they can live happily with
their families and friends. The people who have the illness
suffer tremendously, but not as much as their family
suffers. Their families go through a lot of pain and
suffering, so that’s why I must study hard and succeed. To
help the suffering people and their families by giving hope
to them with my cure.
If I can’t succeed in doing
so, then I must succeed in getting lots of money like Bill
Gates. If I had the amount of money he had I would use most
of it to fund the research for the illnesses, and use the
rest to give to the poor people in Vietnam, leaving me with
enough to survive and let my parents retire happily. I would
like to give the money to the poor people in Vietnam because
I took a trip there in 2001 and I saw how they had to suffer
so badly. I felt for them a lot because they had no one to
turn to for help and they don’t get unemployment money like
us lucky people over here in Australia.
My dream is to one day
grow up and be successful so I can finally repaid my parents
for all the money all hard work they have put in to raising
me. I believe that every child so repay their parents for
the hard work by giving them the money to live happily and
be proud of their child. I believe this because without your
parents you wouldn’t be here today to live your life. So
that is why I think every child should try their hardest in
school to succeed, so that they can repay their parents by
letting live luxuriously and most of all be proud of me and
my accomplishments.
My parents are refugees
who lived in Vietnam. They told me about how they had to
leave Vietnam and go to Thailand in a very small boat just
big enough to hold them. My parents at the time had four
children, three sons and on daughter so they had to hold on
to them as tight as they could so that they didn’t lose any
of them. My parents only had water and rice to survive on,
and they told me if someone got too tired to carry on and
died then the rest of the people on their boat would eat
them to stay alive! I recently took a trip to Vietnam in
2001 with my parents and saw their old house. Their old
house was really small compared to the houses over here and
they told me of how they had to take care of the animals
that lived downstairs.
I don’t like to see people
suffering so that is why I want to succeed. I must complete
the first part of my dream, which is to give my parents a
good life and be proud. I would also like to complete the
second part so I can help the poor and ill. I would like to
help them so they can enjoy their life, and I would like to
help the kids because I am sure they have the same dream as
the first part of mine. If I can help them survive they can
try to succeed so they can help their parents become happy.
I am sure they will succeed and give their parents a happy
luxurious life. Their parents will be happy and very proud
that their son or daughter could succeed so greatly, they
will be amazed and very proud and happy. That truly is the
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