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My name is Isaak. I'm nineteen years old.
I'm originally from Newcastle upon Tyne and I move to London about
two months ago.
Basically I moved to London
with not really thinking about it
complications with the family and
when I got here, I knew I was going to be homeless but I didn't realise I was going to be homeless for this long.
I've been homeless since April 26th
I ran away for two weeks when I was sixteen previously so I have some kind of
experience.
It's kind of
scary and terrifying I guess because
for your whole life you've had a stable place to live in
your biggest worry was about exams and what are you going to be when you're older and now its
how am I going to eat
where am I going to sleep and everything.
It's a safety aspect because
I don't really want to sleep
out in the open where people walk pass and you can hear their remarks.
My name is Peter, I am twenty years old
now I am living in London
but
originally I'm from Latvia.
Right at the start it was fun
I was working, I had everything but now
I am living in a hard time.
Homelessness.
I've seen a new kind of side to London
now that I'm..
London's real face.
Because you're homeless people expect you have met some bad and nasty people but
I've met some incredible people that have,
you know, put me on the right way
on the right path to
being something and people that have kind of really changed the way I look at
the world.
If I'm around nice people have met nice people and
they're nice to me and I've got people to talk to, I am not by myself then
that's all.
If you don't have people in there that you care about they don't care
about you or
show you any kind of emotional support then
it's not home it's bricks and mortar.
Home? Home for me
is the place
where is my friends.
I've grown as a person,
I've matured
and I wouldn't change it for the world
because I know I will look back on this and
one month, two months time
and I will think yeah
it was hard but I've learned things and
I've learned life experience that I would have never learned.