A Day in the Shoes of a Teenager Who Lives in a House of Seven People

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A Day in the Shoes of a Teenager Who Lives in a House of Seven People Growing up in a relatively larger-than-average household with seven

people who are somehow related to you in one way or another, life is

pretty hectic; especially when you're a 15 year-old teenager with

hormones raging inside of you. It is known that young people at this

stage of their lives feel that the whole world is against them. And

let me tell you: It's absolutely true! (Not the idea of everyone being

against us but that kind of feeling.) Don't believe me? Let me take

you out on a day in my life, in my shoes, a day in the shoes of a

teenager who lives in a house of seven people!

"Good morning, it's Hughesy, Kate and Dave on Nova 100…"

Tangled in my doona, I wriggled over on my back and reached in the

darkness of my room and found the bedside table. Moving my hand around

the surface of the table I eventually found the alarm clock and

commenced my search for the off button. Rubbing the sleep out of my

eyes, I heaved myself out of bed and shook the doona off me.

Suddenly a blinding light filled the room just as I was opening my

eyes! Thankfully my peripheral nervous system was wide awake and my

hands shielded my eyes and saved them from becoming blind.

"Get up!"

It was Dad.

"Do you realize what time it is?

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