Colonision of Australian Letter

The Colonision of Australian is when all of these prisoners were bought to Australia from london to start a new colony. In year 4 we had to write a letter about what it would be like if we were in London and we were prisoners who were put on a ship and travel to Australia, we had to pretend we were writing to an aunt about it. Here it is:

Dear Aunt Elizabeth                                                            

22nd August 1788

Life in London was very hard. I didn't know where my parents were. I was all alone with no where to go. I had no food or water just myself alone in London. One day I got very hungry so I stole a loaf of bread. So now I am on my way to Port Jackson ( also known as Australia), to start a new colony.

On the boatthe conditions are terrible. It smells like vomit, dead bodies, rotten food and fish, it's horrible. The ship that I was on was called The Lady Penrhyn. They have sentenced me seven years in prison. They have too many prisoners in London. So they are taking us to Port Jackson. Every day we get a certain amount of food, it's not enough! Some of the people on the ship were getting sick with scurvy, but luckly I didn't.

On the second month of the journeywe stopped at Rio De Janiero which was are second stop to stock up on food. Soon we had to leave Rio and get back on that disgusting boat. Everything about that boat is horrible the food the smell the conditions, I wanted to go home. Whenever I went to sleep I dreamed of the positive things in life, been rich and going to school, going back to England to see my parents.

Seven months later we arrived in Port Jackson it was a reliefto see land. When we arrived there were other people on the island, the Aboriginals . They were here before us. The first thing that we did was that we were ordered to cut down the trees I didn't want to do that. The jobs that I did were helping the cook, feeding the animals, helping the gardener and making the tents. Also I had to share a tent with other children.

After a couple of years I got realeased. I could start my life all over again

Best wishes
Amelia