Kala is 12 now, she used to live in the outback of Australia until she found out about her true self. It is the early 1860s a hard place to be for her and her family, since her mother is an Aboriginal and her father is English It means that Kala is mixed with British and Indigenous blood. Instead of Kala’s skin being dark brown like her mothers it was a light brown.
Kala used to come from a different tribe, but the English destroyed it for more farming space. Then Kala and the rest of her clan found a different tribe which they are staying at. The good thing about it is they have lakes and trees in the land but the bad thing is that they are sharing the land with the British. Kala liked the place but her mother was scared because the English thought that Kala was British or Irish. So the English took her and sent her away to learn how be educated as an English woman.
The place Kala was staying was terrible. It’s almost if they were trying to poison her. The food was always the same, some sort of slime or mud but the cook says it is just healthy porridge. Kala hated her room, it was warm and stuffy and they expect her to sleep on a bed!? This house was really noisy too, people were always screaming and running around the house like they were chasing a dingo. Kala didn’t get it. Someone was also coming over to teach her how to read, but how could she read something on paper? It just looked like a bunch of lines to her!
“Darling are you alright?” asked the cook.
Since Kala was a kind person and I didn’t know what she was saying she didn’t reply.
“Would you like more?”
Ok, Kala knew she didn’t speak English but she could understand if someone was holding some slime out it mean, “You would want more food?” So she ran out of the kitchen and into her room, looking out the window she saw animals in a big barn. Now she was just thinking of how she could get out of there but she knew now just what to do. When she arrived at the barn it was very noisy, and Kala could hear Chickens, Cows and pigs. Problem, how could she make all the animals follow her? She grabbed the seeds and sprinkled them in the direction of the house and ran out of the gates and broke for her freedom. The funny thing was in the distance she could slightly hear screams and glass breaking. But in the back of her head Kala was screaming for joy! Wherever she was she didn’t care as long as she left the evil prison and could go home.
20 days later she found her mother Kala remembered someone saying that the mothers and fathers of the children would forget us. But when she saw her mother she was crying and asking me how Kala escaped.