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Hello im going to tell about my horrible story. It started when I committed a crime and I went to jail. My crime was a minor crime and I thought that I was going to get out of the jail in 2 or 3 years but one day a guard told us that we had to go to Australia,  that scared us because we didn’t know anything about Australia.
The journey was horrible, we stayed in the sea more than one month and we didn’t have food enough, but finally, we arrived to Australia. In the island we found aborigines and they couldn’t understand us, then we attacked them to get food and a place to sleep. Finally we got it and that’s the beginning of a new life in Australia.

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Three months later, we arrived to Australia. We went through a lot of storms and days wihout enough food. Now I'm here alone, without my family or my friends and I don't know if I'm going to see them again, sad but true. I have nothing here but I'm going to be positive and take advantage of this second oportunity. First I have to look for food becouse I don't want to die

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When I found out that we had to go to the new colony called Australia to finish our sentence and to stay there the rest of our lives, I was shocked because  my family didn't travel with me and also I was very angry because for me it was the worst punishment and there were a lot of people that had commited worst crimes.The journey was terrible because it was long and also we didn't have any food, so these days were the worst days of my life.

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I arrived in Australia in a ship of convicts. I was punished for stealing in some markets to feed my family. I met some other convicts in the ship who made bigger crimes. The people who ruled the area put us to work in the countryside. I discovered tribes of aborigines and they gave advices to us about how to work correctly the countryside, they are really nice with us. My life at the moment is difficult , I have to forget about my old family and try to make a new life here.

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You are lucky", I remember these words that the captain said to us. After hours of sailing we arrived to an unknown land in which we were going to be free. After weeks of trip we come to a beach where there was nothing. We went down of the ship and a little  later the boat was left and more than two hundred people were there alone. Te firsts days were difficult to survive, we didn't have any food, no water although we had some lemons. Little by little between all the persons who were there we started to build small houses and collect some food. Now we are living like gods.

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When I arrived here I couldn`t believe it. I didn't know where I was, and just because I had stolen some bread. I didn't like this situation. The other people who are with me committed worse crimes than me. I miss you all and the city where I was born, I think this is one of the worst punishments that they can give a person.

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I can´t imagine how time flies, it seems that everything was a nightmare. It has been a long time since I committed a minor crime. I was sent to another country, Australia, far from my family, my life, my house.. I couldn't believe it. At the beginning I was scared,  bewildered, I didn't know what to do. I was with other people like children, women and men. I remember that I saw them and I thought, ¨Now we are all the same, big or small, but we are criminals¨ Life gives us a second opportunity and we have to take advantage of it. In that time I was too young and I went through many diseases like malnutrition, famine etc.. getting food was hard. The worst part was to face the situation, some convicts attacking, the jobs were horrible, extreme conditions and low salary.

I saw how children were dying, that was perturbing, I didn't want to die so I survived. I started to make my new life by myself, it was difficult. Nowadays I´m alive, I have a beautiful family and I don´t want to think more about my past, I want to think about the future of my daughter. If there is one thing I have learned is that you should never give up.

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I´ve been here for two weeks and it seems like thousand of years. Being far from what it was my  entire life is so hard. Well, everybody says that it´s a great opportunity for me, for my reintegration in the new society. I have met lot of people in the same situation as I, they are all minor criminal like me. Most of them have stolen small things not in very large shops. In my case, I was brought here when I had a fight with a man who was drunk.
In Australia life is not as in England, although there are some things that I prefer to those in England.

Definitely, I have to adapt to this new life and probably in a few years I'll be a new person with a new life and the most important problem that is the distance from here to England (where my family is) will be solved because they´ll come or I hope so...

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When I arrived I was really confused... all that had happened was really bad, now I'm just here thanking God for giving me another opportunity to live a new life here in Australia. It's true that now I have a new opportunity of life but I don't like the idea of having lost my family... now, I'm here in Australia with lots of people that I don't know, I feel scared about what the future has to offer me.

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I don't know if anybody  is going to read this, even so, I'm going to do it. All started when I stole some food for my children, the only thing that I wanted was to feed them. We were poor since my boss fired me, then THREE days after I was in a ship with people who had done worse things than me. I don't know when I will return or if I'm going to do it. The only thing that I know is that I can't stay here one more day. This is an ordeal! Here I don't talk with anybody and I  only eat once a day . The guards give us their  leftovers, but the thing that terrifies me the most  It's the next question : what have they done with my children?

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I couldn't belive it, I had been in a horrible and dark prision  here in Australia for 4 years, but finally I got out of prision and I started a new life with the people who left the prision with me. At that moment I was very excited and happy because now I'm free and I dont have to work in bad conditions and I can do the things that I want.

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When I arrived to Australia, it was like a mix of feelings, some good others not so good. I have to look at the good side of the things. In England I was a criminal, here, I was free, so I could start a new life.The place was beautiful, here there were lots of mountains and a lot of vegetation that I like a lot. The only thing that I can do now is think that everything is going to be fine.
The first days were horrible, because you start from the beginning a new life. After that, when you have remade your life, everything is easier. Now I have my own house, I have a job, I have a family, which is what I love the most in this world. I have everything I want, so I don't miss England.

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I remember clearly that night, it was cold and  there was a big storm on our way to Port Jackson. I was very scared because I missed my family and I was going to an unknown place. When we arrived to Australia,  the British commander left us on the land and we had to survive on our own. We were in terrible conditions because we had almost nothing to eat ,and we didn´t know anyone.We could only meet the Aborigenes and they didn´t get on very well with us. Then we started to do forced jobs in the island all day. For me it was awful. I couldn´t stop thinking about my children .
Today, I still have 7 years of sentence and I´m hoping to finish it to start a new life in Australia.

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Dear family:
I've just arrived to Australia and the impressions are the worst. Here we haven't got enough food and also we have to wear the same clothes every day. I think that the main problem is the room because we have to be twenty people in the same room and we haven't got any bed, we only have got a small pillow.
The journey was frightening because while we were coming to Australia there were storms and  thunders and also it was raining all day.
I don't know if I'm going to see you anymore because every day one person dies from malnutrition. I think that I have to be strong because I'm a minor criminal so I think I will be able to start a new life here but without you.

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I couldn't believe it. What was happening to me was too horrible to be real.  When I arrived to my new prison, Australia, I realized that I was going to live a real and neverending nightmare.  We were forced to work until the end of the day and food was very scarce.
Nowadays, I still don't know how I survived that hell because many of my friends didn't make it. We were all punished for minor crimes, what did we do to deserve that?

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I´ve just arrived and all of this is new for me. Australia is small but gives me good feelings. I´m sad because a few days before I had to say good bye to my family and I think that I won´t see them again. Me and some more survived the journey that was very dangerous and long. When we arrived we didn't have anything so we had to kill a strange tribe who had been living here for decades.

The start was difficult but I hope that soon  I can start a prosperous life here.

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It was dark, I couldn't see anything. I was with 15 people in the same big rusted cage. I could only hear men praying to God. I was feeling the pain of my broken arm but, I didn’t pay attention to that because I thought the end was near. Then, the cage was opened, and the light could enter through the little spaces between the bars. The sun was beautiful, as I remembered. Some masked men started to take us out and one of them used my broken arm to push me out. The pain was terrible, my knees were shaking and my hands sweating. At that moment, I could feel I was about to start a new life.

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And now  I am here. God has given me a new opportunity in a beautiful island called Australia  .
I remember  all from my old life. I remember the moment  when I stole those  pieces of bread  in New Castle.I am sorry about that but I had to eat. Fortunately  the jugde was kind with me and gave me a new life in the island of the opportunities .

The captain said last night that in Australia  there are a lot of tribes of aborigines. I think we could  share our  culture with them and improve their lives.

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I want to tell you a lot of things, but I will tell you when I arrive to Ireland. Now I'm going to tell you what happened with me some years ago, when I went to London to talk with an important person to make a new commercial road. The problem is that when I arrived I was hungry and I stole an apple, because the owner was distracted and I forgot where I had hidden the money, but a police saw me while I was taking the fruit and he took me to a prison. I was trying to explain  to him with my horrible English, but the problem was that he didn't believe me when I said that I had to do an important commercial road. Two or three months later, some guards took me in to a ship to go to Australia and have a new opportunity.

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I've been here since last year and at that time I was very worried. I didn't know where I was and also I didn't know anyone. I was here because I was a criminal, so maybe they were going to let us there without food and water, we didn`t know. This is a beautiful and interesting island but at that time I thought it was worse than jail. Firstly, they told us to work everyday making our own homes, it was very hard but we made very beautiful houses. Then, things started to get better, we started to explore the island. It was dangerous but we found a lot of  interesting places. After a time here, I started to forget about my family. I`m happy here and I`m sure they are happy in England.

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It all started while I was in jail and somebody said that I was going to start a new life in a faraway place.  I was sad because I was going to let all my life there. The journey was very bad, awful and too long. People were ill and some of them died, I was lucky to be alive. I arrived and I had nothing there, no home, no food, nothing..
We realized that there were Aborigines, but we attacked them to steal their food. At first it was so hard but finally I have made my second life here.

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Dear family:
I know that you are asking where I am or what I am doing, but I have not idea about that. I only know that I had stolen some food and now I am in the other part of the world.
The life here is very hard. I have to get up early every day, and do forced jobs without a rest. We only have two meals a day.
I can't imagine how I'm going to stay here without seeing you and surrounded by water.

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Hello I´m going to tell you my story. When I was young I committed a crime and I was punished for it. My crime was minor compared to those committed by other people who were there. On one day a security guard took me and a lot more people to Australia giving us a second opportunity to start over again, with a new life and a new job there. The journey was horrible, a lot of people died but I survived. Once we were there we didn´t eat,  we were only given some water and we were forced to work all the days. I couldn´t believe it, a lot of children died and they were very hard with women, especially with pregnant women . The first year was horrible, but the rest of the years were much better. Fortunately nowadays I have a family and I am very happy but there are days when I  feel really bad because I can't forget that horrible experience.

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When I was on the ship I was looking forward to arriving because the journey was terrible, it was extremely long, there were storms, we didn’t have food and everybody was ill. I thought things will be better here, but I couldn’t imagine that starting in a new land would be so hard. Although this place is amazing and beautiful, I miss civilization. My life in jail wasn’t good, but here we have to fight to survive. We found people here and some convicts have attacked them to steal their houses or food. We could have helped each other, but now I think they won’t help us to find food or water.

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When I arrived here I couldn't believe my ears! It was surrealist because my crime had nothing to do with the crime committed by people around me in that prison of Australia. The people around me were real killers. I didn't deserve to be there with them. I did nothing wrong, only I believed in something that some people didn't like because nobody dared to contradict people of high society. However, years laters they all knew that I was right. Now I live in Australia, I have a good job after this and I am happy with my family. I have 2 boys and 1 girl and my wife. But the memories of my past I will never forget. I hope that this experience will never happen in the world.

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I couldn´t believe what was happening to me. I was too frightened to realize what was happening. Oh my God, I was a prisioner of Austrlia! I could see that the first convicts who have arrived were women who were sent to textile factories and also who were sentenced of prostitution. We were there for the simple fact of steal money, animals, hunt...Furthermore, I have to see how children died.

It was a completely tragedy.  I had to put up with hard live conditions such as: misery, famine, malnutrition and more unpleasant conditions. Many of us were sick because of lack of food and rest. They treated us  harshly and frequently we had to work with cold. If one of us behaved well, we could receive an exit ticket, which gave us some freedom. I never could forget this experience. Unfortunately, it will be a unforgettable sensation for the rest of my days.

The arrival of the convicts to Australia.

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When I arrived here I couldn't believe it, I was terribly shocked, but it's getting worse by the day. This is like living in a constant nightmare. I have to live together with lots of men and women who have committed worse crimes than me and I'm sentenced to miss my family for the rest of my life. In addition, we have to survive by ourselves, with a bit of fruit and fish everyday. We could ask our neighbours, the Aborigines, for shelter and food, but they can't understand us and they hate us because lots of the prisioners kill them to own their territories. This is a hell I could never escape from.