When I left My Country - by Eria
When I was 15 years old I had to leave my country. My name is Andrew and this is my story from how I became a refugee.
One dark and stormy night my parents woke me up and said to get a plastic bag and get canned food when I was getting food I heard a explotion. I got scared and we ran away to a refugee camp. It was scary seeing machine guns around the walls of the camp. I was crying seeing people die on the way here. I wanted to run away because I knew no one. I used to live in Iraq then we went to NZ.
It was hard learning english and playing with other kids again. I was really nervous going back to college.
