Your Room For Twenty Fours Hours example essay topic

Teen Alcatraz It was the year 1999, I was a reckless little 13 year old. I had been in and out of foster care for years. I had been adopted at 7 years old by a senile 50 year old single woman. She treated my foster siblings and I like we were trash. She was basically the wicked witch from the west. She used us and abused us; she treated us like her personal slaves.

I had decided that I could not go on living like this, and I was running away and I would never return that house again. One cold night, my cousin and I decided our lives were intolerable. We planned our great escape. We threw our bags out of our bedroom windows. Then at exactly 10: 30, we walked out our front doors and ran to the nearest empty factory, and met there.

We ran for hours and hours, our destination was an old abandoned trail or of my cousins. It was a crazy night. By the time we made it to the trail or, hours later I was dirty, mad, and I had wet pants. We walked inside, the broken down trail or and just started to get into pajamas and there was headlights in the driveway.

I panicked and hid. My cousin yelled, "Krissy, Krissy, it's my mommy! ", I said, "HIDE! ", because I was not going back to that tyrannical mother of mine. Well, I guess my cousin was feeling the same as me and she decided to RUN outside to her mother and rat us both out.

Her mother, my aunt, let me stay with her that night. The next day at school, I was called to the principal's office, and a lady from the Department of Human Services was there. She proceeded to tell me that if I would not go home, right then and there, that their only choice was to send me to shelter. I, being as na " ive as I was, said, "FINE!

At least I can start over!" So, that very day they, transferred me in the middle of Social Studies test to a place where they said I would love, and people would treat me how I wanted to be treated, this place would be called, "Agency Shelter". It was about five miles from Ottumwa, Ia. It was about an hour and half drive. I was terrified, and happy at the same time.

I was worried because I had never been away from Washington, IA, in my entire life, but I was excited because I hoped it would be a new beginning for me. As soon as I walked in the door, I had this odd feeling that everyone was staring at me. As I looked around, I saw critical eyes everywhere. This did not make my terrified feeling go away by any means. I sat in the main office there for hours and hours it seemed, while they told me every rule I had to obey by if I wanted to make it through their program. It was rules sorta like, no talking to anyone that was not associated with the shelter, do not do anything without asking, do your chores without any fuss, and do them well, and we had specific bedtimes.

Basically it seemed like prison to me. You did what they told you to do, when they told you to do it. If you had any problems at all, you would be put on something they call room restrictions, which means that you will be put in your room for twenty fours hours. You would take your meals, and everything in your room. Then, after that twenty four hours, if they decided that you were able to be among the rest of the group without problems you were able to be a part of it.

I sat in this place with my ups and downs, my smiles, and most of all my tears for exactly one hundred and twenty two days. It was the worst one hundred and twenty two days of my life. I think I went from being a rebellious pre teen, to a depressed anti social loner in there within the first couple months I was there. I had so many emotions that I went through in there. I am sure that my headstrong issues did not help me in any case. The worst feeling I had in there was a feeling of abandonment because I felt like, since I had been in there in so long without any family wanting me, it made me feel so completely awful, it made me lose hope.

I spent many nights crying and wishing, until one magical day, I got a call from my social worker. He said me, "Krissy, we have wonderful news for you", of course I could a cared less at this time, because as I said I had lost all hope, "We have a wonderful family for you". My face turned from slightly peach, to hot read, and my frown turned into the first real smile you would have seen from in 120 days. I said", Really! Are they everything I hoped for?" My worker said", Yes, Krissy, you have a brother, sister, and a dog".

I couldn't believe it, it was the greatest day in my life! I went on a home visit the next day and my social worker was right. It was everything I wished, and hoped for. To this day, I recall the horrible days I spent in Agency Shelter and it reminds of nothing more but prison..