This is an extract from one of our students work in the creative writing class here at ORA.
“I will not trouble to describe my years at the orphanage. They were passed neither pleasantly nor painfully, as my basic needs were met without my ever feeling valued. When I reached the age of sixteen, I was expected to make my own way in the world, and consequently I spent four years as a waiter and errand boy at a small café in Llandudno, my hometown.
My horizons in those days were as narrow as my interests, my vocabulary as small as my intellect. The outbreak of war in my twentieth year troubled me little, until the enlistment mania began. It occurred to me that joining the army would be an ideal way to see the world. It was on this flimsy base that my military career was founded.”
- Laura, New Perspectives Programme, UK.