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Residential School Diary Report

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Dear Diary when I came to residential school my life got ruined. Let's start from the beginning. On Sunday, March 16 at that time I was 7 years old. In the morning some nuns came to our house they were saying that they were starting a new school sponsered by the government name residential school. They told my parents that it is a school where they help the children to how to live by themselves and also some stuffs like that but they didn't tell about the bad and disgusting things about that school. They also tell them that it is near from our house. After a week my parents send me to the residential school It was looking so good from the outside. Later soon we all went inside the school and they told us about the rules I thought that they …show more content…

I was thinking like I am a servant of someone. Time by time I started getting bullied from the staffs and also from some of the students. The main and the shocking thing was that when I was at the age of the 18 I was only in the grade 5. Then after finishing the grade 5 the school got ended and I came back to my house. After attending the residential school I was fully lost that what´s my cultural now and I don't know why, but I was really scared to talk in my own native language in front of my neighbours near my house. Later when I came into my house, my dad ran at me and hug me so hardly. I saw him crying and when I asked him for my mother, he hold my hand and took me to his room. In his room I saw my mother was lying down on the bed and when I asked my dad what happened to her he said that,”When you left after a few months we came to see you, but the staff did not allow us but your mother went inside to see you but the staff members throw her out of the school. From that time your mother deal with the very devastating effects of separation and also the effects of trauma”. I was really sad at that time by looking at my mother and to myself that how the residential school changed our whole

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