WHAT A STRANGE DAY IT
HAD BEEN ....
IOANNA TSIVANIDOU
It
was a hot summer morning when I got up, washed and dressed to go to work as
usual. I had breakfast and then I left home.
When
I opened my car door, I heard somebody saying: " Get out of the car and
leave immediately". Oh my God! There were two Albanians with guns! Real
guns! I got out of the car and I started running. I didn’t have any time to go
to the police station. How could I get to my work? " They will fire me
", I thought. What should I do? My house keys had been stolen! My money
had been stolen!
I
decided to go by bus. I thought it was the best thing I could do. I went to the
bus stop and I was waiting for the bus when I realised I had my ticket and I
couldn’t afford another one. Anyway, the bus arrived and I got in. I was
sitting next to a young man when I saw a gun in his pocket!
I
was terrified and I was about to leave the bus when the ticket inspector
stopped me. " Could you show me your ticket? ", he asked me. I was
about to tell him my story, when the young man stood up and screamed : "
Everybody down or I will kill all of you! ". I fainted!
When
I recovered we were in a place I had never seen before. We were going to
Albania! That was the young man’s "wish". All of us were obliged to
go with him and if we hadn’t agreed we would have gone to meet our maker! After
4 hours we heard the police coming.
We
were so happy; but not for long. The young man killed an old lady and threw her
out of the bus to make the police realise his intentions! The police shot him and
he was killed. But I was wounded because I was sitting next to him. So, a
helicopter took me to the hospital and my doctor told me that I had to stay
there for a month. What a strange day it had been!
IOANNA
TSIVANIDOU is a fifteen-year-old student at the Fourth
Lykeio in Katerini. She enjoys travelling – she has been to London as well as
many other European cities, and is also interested in music and films. She has
passed the Cambridge FCE English exams, is waiting for the results of the
Cambridge and Michigan Proficiency exams.