‘The Weight of Water’ Themes by Lisa Glass

2025-03-25 09:23:28 UTC

Clair cutting Kasienkas hair while she’s sitting in front of her

2025-03-25 09:23:59 UTC

‘They put me with the eleven year olds’

2025-03-25 09:24:10 UTC

Key moment=Radio news flash

2025-03-25 09:24:14 UTC

No one cares when I get around her but when I get caught out they are satisfied

2025-03-25 09:24:26 UTC

‘A Croatian builder was attacked last night in Birmingham… Kanoro looks at her meaningfully’- Radio News Flash

2025-03-25 09:24:28 UTC

“They put me in with the 11-year-olds”

2025-03-25 09:24:31 UTC

Isolation

Kasienka feels alone at home and school. Mama is ignoring her because she just wants to find Tata and she doesn’t really have any friends so she is lonely.

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“ no one cares when I get around her but when I get caught out they are satisfied “ - anyone else

2025-03-25 09:24:48 UTC

‘Unwanted and misused, like old boots dragged from the river.’

2025-03-25 09:24:48 UTC

Her becoming close with her step mother and sister

2025-03-25 09:24:55 UTC

“But Claire doesn’t pick me anymore

She looks past me,

Through me

To anyone else- anyone else

2025-03-25 09:25:00 UTC

‘But clair doesn’t pick me anymore. She looks past me, through me to anyone else’

2025-03-25 09:25:01 UTC

Discrimination:

‘A Croatian builder was attacked last night in Birmingham’

23ellacurran — 2025-03-25 09:25:12 UTC

Ella Curran

Year Seven- “They put me in with the eleven year olds”

Pale- “At lunchtime I hide in the corner of the yard, by a drinking fountain, hoping only to be left alone

2025-03-25 09:25:13 UTC

Year 7: “They put me in with the 11 year olds”

Pale : “At lunchtime i hide.. in the corner of the yard by the drinking fountain hoping only to be left alone

2025-03-25 09:25:14 UTC

“At lunch time I hide in the courner of the yard by a drinking fountain, hoping only to be left alone

2025-03-25 09:25:16 UTC

Everyone calls kasienka ‘cassie’ because it sounds more english

2025-03-25 09:25:30 UTC

“Unwanted and misused like old boots dragged from a river”-kasienka

2025-03-25 09:25:32 UTC

She’s not close with her mother anymore

2025-03-25 09:25:33 UTC

“She avoids my eyes..and if we accidentally touch she shakes me off like she’s been bitten.Like I’m poison

2025-03-25 09:25:35 UTC

Mama found the perfect home for a cast off laundry bag , yes , but not a home for us

2025-03-25 09:25:35 UTC

“No one cares that I get a rounder only when I get out are they satisfied!”

2025-03-25 09:25:41 UTC

Anyone else “No one cares when I get a rounder only when I’m out they are satisfied “

2025-03-25 09:25:42 UTC

“ mama found the perfect home for a cast off laundry bag, yes but not a home for us” - dwellings

2025-03-25 09:25:49 UTC

Mama and Babcias relationship changing in England compared to Poland

2025-03-25 09:25:49 UTC

‘We sing carols, eat baked ham, open small boxes wrapped in bows, and it is good enough’- Christmas

2025-03-25 09:26:22 UTC

‘Kasienka, do you know that you are useless’ she snaps’

2025-03-25 09:26:24 UTC

Anyone else : “ but Clair doesn’t pick me anymore she looks last me , through me to anyone else “

2025-03-25 09:26:24 UTC

‘Good girl Kasienka’ - Mama

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She lives in a house with her mother and shares a bed yet they have a bad relationship

23ellacurran — 2025-03-25 09:26:34 UTC

Anyone else- “But Clair doesn’t pick me anymore, she looks past me, through me, to anyone else”

2025-03-25 09:26:36 UTC

‘If I where on the swim team they might see me’

2025-03-25 09:26:39 UTC

“Sometimes I want to tear off my clothes and show them I’m the same underneath, maybe better”

2025-03-25 09:26:40 UTC

Year seven -shes put in with eleven year old

Pale -im not welcome to play because im too white

2025-03-25 09:26:43 UTC

‘No one cares that I get a rounder only when I’m caught out are they satisfied?’

2025-03-25 09:27:00 UTC

Everyone calls kasienka cassie but it sounds more English

2025-03-25 09:27:03 UTC

Kasienka calls herself “unwanted and misused like old boots from a river” because no one will pick her in group work

2025-03-25 09:27:07 UTC

‘No one cares that i get a rounder. Only when I’m caught OUT are they satisfied’- Anyone Else

2025-03-25 09:27:08 UTC

“ everyone calls Kasienka Cassie but it sounds more English “

2025-03-25 09:27:15 UTC

“ No one cares that I get a rounder, only when I’m caught out are they satisfied”

2025-03-25 09:27:20 UTC

“Claire sent a message to Marie and now Marie is sending it to everyone else in year 8”

2025-03-25 09:27:35 UTC

Clair cutting her hair

2025-03-25 09:27:42 UTC

Deceiver : “ Good girl kasienka”

2025-03-25 09:27:45 UTC

Kasienka feels alone at home and at school. At home mama was too engrossed in finding Tata that she was basically neglecting kasienka and was taking her anger out on her.

2025-03-25 09:27:45 UTC

Tata - “my Olympian”

23ellacurran — 2025-03-25 09:27:46 UTC

Leaving Gdansk Główny- “Good girl, Kasienka”

2025-03-25 09:27:46 UTC

Mama gets prickly every time mentions tata or complains about himself- mamas mama

2025-03-25 09:27:50 UTC

Clair spreading a rumour about Kasienka

2025-03-25 09:28:03 UTC

“Mama found the perfect home for a cast off laundry bag. Yes. But not a home for us.”

“Though I want to console her, I can’t think how, without making her mad”

2025-03-25 09:28:10 UTC

They put me with the eleven year olds

2025-03-25 09:28:13 UTC

“But Claire doesn’t pick me anymore, she looks past me, through me”

2025-03-25 09:28:13 UTC

“ they put me in with the eleven year olds “ - year seven

2025-03-25 09:28:16 UTC

“It isn’t fair on the child let me take her home “-Babcia

2025-03-25 09:28:21 UTC

‘Mama gets prickly whenever babcia mentions Tata or complains about him’

2025-03-25 09:28:27 UTC

“In Poland, Mama and Babcia didn’t argue”

2025-03-25 09:28:40 UTC

‘Kasienka, do you know you that you are useless,?

2025-03-25 09:28:42 UTC

Mamas mama “in Poland Mama and Babcia didn’t argue “

2025-03-25 09:28:49 UTC

Good girl ckasienka

2025-03-25 09:29:05 UTC

“We sit in the front row me in the middle smiling all the way through a sad film”

2025-03-25 09:29:18 UTC

People treat her really badly

2025-03-25 09:29:19 UTC

‘At lunch time I hide in the corner of the yard by a drinking fountain hoping to be left alone’- Pale

2025-03-25 09:29:20 UTC

Clair spreading a rumour about kasienka

2025-03-25 09:29:28 UTC

Claire she doesn’t pick me anymore she looks past me

23ellacurran — 2025-03-25 09:29:35 UTC

Radio News Flash- “A Croation builder was attacked last night in Birmingham……. Kanaro looks at her, meaningful”

2025-03-25 09:29:36 UTC

“A Croatian builder was attacked last night in Birmingham”

2025-03-25 09:29:38 UTC

Radio news flash : “A Croatian builder was attacked last night in Birmingham.. Kanoro looks at her meaningfully ”

2025-03-25 09:29:50 UTC

A Croatian builder was attacked last night in Birmingham… kanoro looks at her meaning-fully

2025-03-25 09:30:14 UTC

“At lunch time I hide in the corner of the yard”

2025-03-25 09:30:22 UTC

“No time for this Kasienka”

2025-03-25 09:30:25 UTC

‘We sing carols, eat boiled ham, open small boxes wrapped in bows and it is good enough’- Kasienka

2025-03-25 09:30:42 UTC

‘Mama invites Kanoro to eat with us ….and he always brings his smile and twinkling eyes.

2025-03-25 09:30:55 UTC

Kasienka calls herself “unwanted and misused like old boots from a river”because no one will pick her for group work

2025-03-25 09:30:57 UTC

“She makes me milkshakes, any flavour í like”

2025-03-25 09:31:06 UTC

Kasienka still missing Tata even though he walked out on her and Mama

2025-03-25 09:31:20 UTC

Radio news flash “ a Croatian builder was attacked last night in Birmingham

2025-03-25 09:31:25 UTC

“Will you come a live with us?”

2025-03-25 09:31:32 UTC

“No time for this kasienka”

2025-03-25 09:31:52 UTC

“But Clair doesn’t pick me anymore. She looks past me, through me, to anyone else.”

“Sometimes I want to tear off my clothes and show them I’m the same underneath- maybe better”

“A Croatian builder was attacked last night in Birmingham.”

2025-03-25 09:32:06 UTC

“Dead fathers dont deliberately leave home, they can be sainted”

2025-05-15 09:01:48 UTC

Isolation - ‘But Clair doesn’t pick me anymore.’

2025-05-15 09:03:05 UTC

“ Unwanted and misused, like old boots dragged from a river “ - group work

2025-05-15 09:04:12 UTC

Bullying - ‘I am their prey and there is nothing I can do to stop them pouncing.’

2025-05-15 09:04:25 UTC

“ But clair doesn’t pick me anymore, she looks past me, through me, to anyone else “ - anyone else

2025-05-15 09:05:41 UTC

“ if I were on the swim team they might see me “ - if I were on the swim team they might see me

2025-05-15 09:06:50 UTC

“ Why can’t they just ask if im okay”? - teachers

2025-05-15 16:08:56 UTC

“Mind the money and passports, Good girl Kasienka”- Leaving Gnask Gölway

2025-05-15 16:12:24 UTC

“Clair doesn’t pick me any more. She looks past me, through me to anyone else”- Anyone else

2025-05-15 16:14:24 UTC

“Mama, Kanoro and I march to the cinema. We gorge on sweets, buttered popcorn and orange sodas”- Name Day

2025-05-15 16:15:55 UTC

“I am a fox surrounded by beagles. They will eat me alive and spit out the fat”- The Hunt

2025-05-15 16:37:16 UTC

But Claire doesn’t pick me anymore she looks past me through me -Anyone else

2025-05-15 16:38:45 UTC

Why would Claire cuts chunks from my hair I was trying to grow it out to get it right -Assembly

2025-05-15 16:40:24 UTC

Name day -we sit in the front row me in the middle smiling all the way through a sad film

2025-05-15 16:41:30 UTC

A Croatian builder was attacked last night in Birmingham-Radio news flash

2025-05-15 16:43:48 UTC

At lunchtime I hide in the corner of the yard by the drinking fountain hoping only to be left alone -Pale

2025-05-15 16:49:02 UTC

“Tatas ashamed whenever he has to see me”- the gospel according to tata

2025-05-15 16:50:08 UTC

“It’s tata and kasienka now isn’t it?”- mama - ready

2025-05-15 16:52:27 UTC

“If only I knew kasienka’s kasienka….when I search for myself in the bathroom mirror I cannot find her at all” -split

2025-05-15 16:53:46 UTC

“You are the new girl in the class and maybe they will hate you instead of me” - dalilah

2025-05-15 16:55:11 UTC

“Look at what your father has become.

And kasienka loves Tata

More then she loves mama”- family

2025-05-15 16:59:11 UTC

“I thought maybe id be exotic.. like an English girl in Gdansk. But I am not an English girl in Gdansk I’m a polish in Coventry”

2025-05-17 13:16:22 UTC

“five foreigners in my class.. Teachers never put us to work in the same groups…each group must be given it's fair share of duds”- Group work

2025-05-17 13:19:15 UTC

"No”' I say.“I can't live here, I won't leave Mama"- Kasienka when Melanie asked if she wanted to come live with her and Tata

2025-05-18 18:47:28 UTC

“She looks past me , through me “

2025-05-18 18:51:00 UTC

“It isn’t fair on the child let me take her home “

2025-05-18 18:53:17 UTC

“Cassie”

2025-05-19 07:48:05 UTC

“Why can’t they just ask if I’m okay?” - Kasienka

2025-05-19 07:48:42 UTC

“But Clair doesn’t pick me anymore” - Kasienka ( isolation )

2025-05-19 07:49:20 UTC

“They put me with the eleven year olds” - Kasienka

2025-05-19 09:03:16 UTC

“But clair doesn’t pick me anymore” -Kasienka

2025-05-19 09:04:12 UTC

“I am a fox surrounded by beagles” - Kasienka

2025-05-19 09:05:54 UTC

“In Poland Mama and Babcia didn’t argue” - Kasienka

“It isn’t fair on the child let me take her home” -Babcia

2025-05-19 09:07:39 UTC

“A Croatian builder was attacked last night in Birmingham” - news

2025-05-19 12:17:48 UTC

“Is it because you’re lesbian?”- Clair

2025-05-19 12:52:03 UTC

“But clair doesn’t pick me anymore “

2025-05-19 12:52:54 UTC

“ why can teachers ask if I’m ok”

2025-05-19 12:53:30 UTC

“ at lunch time I hide in the corner “

2025-05-19 12:55:08 UTC

“at lunch time I hide in the corner of the yard by a water fountain hoping to be left alone”

2025-05-19 12:56:35 UTC

“No one cares when when I get a rounder only when I’m out they are satisfied”-anyone else

2025-05-20 07:44:49 UTC

“It's hard to talk when no one listens” - kasienka