Last week, I only wanted to play truant at my school, but it was out of my mind that travelled 1,600 miles from England to France as I boarded a boat for sleeping in the evening.
The next morning, I roused up from sleep by the nosy voices.
I got such fright with this situation that I nearly arrived in Calais.
I escaped people’s notice to creep off the boat.
In the meantime, I hitchhiked to Paris in a lorry and the kind driver gave me a few biscuits and a cup of coffee.
After he left me outside the city, I spent a whole afternoon walking on the street.
As I saw a car drove towards me and I asked the driver for lift to the centre of Paris.
On the contrary, he did not help me as I hoped.
I decided to go to Perpignan, on the French-Spanish border, I was picked up by a policeman.
At the end of the day, the local authorities sent me back to England.
The next day, I went back to the school.
As usual, some of my classmates play truant and spend all day fishing beside a lake, watching eight hours in a cinema watching the same movie over and over again, is as far as they get.
I have surely set up a record for the thousands of children who dream of evading school.
July 2014
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