Fireweed – Trip to Wales!

I am called Bill and I live with my auntie and begin in London. My mother is dead and my gravel always say I was never to be sent away as an evacuee. When my sire was called up for active service in the army I was leftover field with my auntie. We wrote numerous letters to my father but he never replied to each of them. My auntie started to moan and groan about non being sit downis particularory to manage me. So, she decided to send me of as an evacuee, even though it was against my fathers wishes. aunt wrote to my father and said that I was being sent to another actuate of the country as an evacuee (not explaining why she sent me).I didnt even sleep with where I was passage, all alone without any g middle-aged at all, not even a penny for a stamp to write to my father. The plaza was jam packed with children of all ages. Everyone had a bag, enclosed was a throw of clothes and a label attached with an address written in capital letters to make it stand out. Two trains passed before, ours finally arrived. I was stuck in a carriage with mostly girls in uniform. Opposite me sat a groovy fat woman dressed all in blue, hairy tweed. As the journey progressed we passed station after station, nobody knew where we where going.Until finally the train stopped and everyone disembarked. Darkness was falling and after waiting fractional an hour another train came and our carriage was joined on the can. By now it was pitch black. Eventually we reached our destination, which turned out to be Wales. at once of loaded everyone was counted and put with a billeting incumbent who would find us billets in which to stay. One by one each child was chosen and I was last to go. The man took me up a pathway and by this stage I was feeling a tiny bit unwanted, neglected, and kind of orphaned.He spoke in welsh to the people and after some panorama they took me in. I stepped inside into a big farm kitchen where a great log fire was blazing comparable a forest cursor ily burning down. The heat was inconceivable. Served on the tabletop there was bread, cheese and also a cold roast chicken. My stomach felt empty I was ravening and the sight of food made the rumbling noises even worse. They asked my age and I replied fifteen. At last I was offered something to eat and then shown to my bedroom. The couple I was staying with were called Mr and Mrs Williams living with them were 2 shepherds, David and Evan.They hardly spoke a word of position just enough to cope with telling me things. In this welsh valley there were two chapels, no church and no cottages only rows of terraced tins. It was rather poor at that. I spent a lot of meter on my bed reading an aged copy of the womans weekly, which Mrs Williams stored under the staircase. When the billeting officer came round to see how I was getting on with the Williams, they seemed quite circumscribe with me. Feeling rather bored, I finally plucked up the fortitude and asked if there was a school ne arby which I could attend.In the settlement there was only a primary school that was for juvenile children, but Mrs Williams suggested the grammar school on the other side of the mountains. The only trouble was how would I get there? The only option would be to get the bus. thus far again a problem arose. The bus fair I had no money. So out came pen and paper to write a letter to my auntie telling her about the grammar school and asking if she could write to father and ask him to send me money for the bus fare. I also asked for my fathers address.I posted the letter in the post office at the back of the village shop I waited for a reply but no letter came. An unusual thing happened one day, Mrs Williams approached me saying that she needed to kick downstairs my hair for lice. Naturally enough I refused argued and ran out of the house until I came to a dip. I decided to jump but slipped and fell into dense disinfectant that burnt my mouth and nose. I swallowed several mouthfuls. David and Evan who had been trying to contain me were in stitches of laughter. I was so angry I felt like a raging bull.When I gathered myself together I began to fluctuate all over this made David and Evan very concerned. They took me back to the house and as I stood by the fire they stripped my wet clothes that were take with disinfectant of me. Afterwards I went to bed. The following morning to my delight Mrs Jones cognizant me that there was post for me. My heart pounded like the footsteps of an elephant. In actual fact I received two letters The get-go opened was from my auntie. enfold was my fathers address, a book of stamps and she hoped I would write to him often.The other letter, number two was from my father. He missed me a lot. My father had sent me three undivided pounds This was the biggest amount of money I had ever been given in my life. This overwhelmed me. My first thoughts were to calculate how many bus fares would this pay for. Then I got to sentiment abou t Auntie and home and decided that I would use the money for my train fare back to London. Leaving Mr and Mrs Williams, David, Evan and the terraced houses behind I left for the station. The timetable showed only one train per day at the village.The man at the ticket desk stared at me as though he were disembodied spiriting discipline through me. When I saw him, I was frightened that he would admit me so I put plan B into action. I walked to the crossroads. Owestry =15 miles. I looked down at my worn shoes there was a station at Owestry. I bought a pair of boots so I could walk to Owestry as I had a funny feeling my old shoes wouldnt make it. I set off not having the foggiest how massive it would take me to walk there. I bought a brown bap from a bakehouse van, which I met outside the village. When I arrived in Owestry it was late afternoon.I instal the station and waited for the train to leave. It left and hour and a half late. at once I reached London I caught the bus home. Suddenly it took a ill-timed turn Then I was told that the street no longer stood. I got of the bus as quick as my legs could carry me. I walked to my aunties house and everything was grand until a warden stopped me asking where I was going. I was totally bewildered they wouldnt even let me my own home. Nobody was there to look after me. My auntie was not there any more. I was going to stay put I decided at least until my father came home. I was determined about this.