I knew she was angry but I didn’t care. But then I learned my new friends took drugs, and I began to take drugs too. It was wrong and stupid, I know that now, but I was unhappy and angry.
The police came to the college to arrest some of the students. They didn’t arrest me, but I had to leave the college. It was a bad time.
My mother was very unhappy with me. ‘What am I going to do with you, Carol?’ she said.
‘I’m sorry,’ I told her.
‘We’ll go back to England,’ she said. ‘You can find a college there. Perhaps you can be happier in England.’
‘All right’, I said. ‘I want to forget what’s happened. I want to forget what I’ve done and begin a new life, be a new person.’
