'My Name is Rez' ~ Tent Situation

22/05/20, Significant Event, My Name is Rez

Tent Situation

I.A.L.T Write about the text I am reading.

Today for our writing task we had to upload yesterday's writing. Yesterday we had to write about an event from the story that seems significant to ourselves. I chose the 'Tent Situation', the fact that while Rez and her family was in camp they had to live in a tent with 6 other families. 

Here is my significant event writing:

My Name is Rez ~ Original tale told by Toby Morris

‘My Name is Rez’ is a story about a very young girl who had to become a refugee because of the war and fighting that has been happening in the Kurdish parts of Iraq and Turkey, where her parents (and later, she,) lived. There was too much of this, so her parents fled to Iran. That's where they met, and started to protest. They had two kids, but soon it got too dangerous, and they had to leave in the back of a truck. A few months after they resettled, Rez was born. While at the refugee camp, Rez’s family had to share a tent with six other families. That must be annoying. I would never want to share with six random families that I don’t know much about, and that might not be 8-9 people. It could be 20 other humans! Even my family's house, which is bigger than a tent, I will not feel comfortable at all with 6 other families living there. No way! 

I chose to write about this because it is the only thing in this story that I have never heard of or seen in other movies or books and also because their family actually tolerated it. 

At least in the end they made their way to New Zealand and had their own house to themselves, and a better life.

One of my favourite parts of this story was when Rez's family arrived in NZ.

My least favourite part of the story was the beginning, when the story was talking about the parents.

The problem in the story was there was so much war and fighting and the family couldn't settle down, but when they moved to NZ they lived better, and so the problem was solved.

Have you ever had to live with 6 other families, whether you know them or not? Or even 4?