The Adventures of Homeless Girl

Hey All

Posted by: homelessgirl on: October 1, 2009

hey guys so I’m still at the hotel and I’ve just paid £1.25 for half an hour internet acess. I’m needing to buy a netbook or something, I’m thinking of moving to a hostel as its more affordable or thinking of going back home to my dad. that seems so peaceful right now.

I went to visit my old  house yesterday and cried as I saw it was being renovated by whoever bought it. And now I have no idea where any of my stuff is and I feel like the biggest idiot that walked the earth.

an internet troll has decided to write useless comments on this blog, please give them the attention they desperately need by reading the comments, on the recent comment section.

Thanks for the love and support.

HG

An Update

Posted by: homelessgirl on: September 21, 2009

So this is going to be very quick because I have 12 minutes of internet time left.

1. I’m in a town called stevenage, not too far from London.

2. I’m in a hotel called the Ibis Hotel: It sucks but its better than the streets.

3. I’ve gotten a few people offering help to me at the moment but at the moment none of it helps me.

4. I’ve been looking for places to live but have no references or bank  account references, unless if someone is willing to commit fraud to help me.

5. I’m surprsingly okay but scared. The money is draining away so quickly, my dad has managed to get a bit of money that he is sending through  a friend who just arrived in England this yrar and I’m going to see her either tomorrow or today.

6. I was supposed to check out sunday but keep extending.

7. I need an apartment or 2 spare rooms.

8. I need a laptop or an unlocked mobile phone with 3g capabilites to help me access the internet but that’s not a neccesity but it would be helpful.

 

Thanks for caring and reading.

Speak soon.

I Saw This Coming

Posted by: homelessgirl on: September 16, 2009

So I just came out of telling the owners of the house that by tomorrow we would be gone.  And for the first time I’m sure of it. That’s it guys.

Like I said I don’t know what’s gonna happen. I’ll let tomorrow sort itself out.

Surprisingly I don’t feel sad, I knew it was coming.

I managed to get my laptop sort of working again, only 20  minutes battery life so forgive me if I don’t post often .

The truth is, all I know is that something good is going to happen to me tomorrow and I am not a lost cause or case.  This has an end.

Speak soon. Lots of Love

Homeless Girl

Just Love People

Posted by: homelessgirl on: September 5, 2009

I believe that the most important thing in this world is love. Not emotional love but true, powerful, forgiving, and patient  love.

If you set about living out your day thinking what can I do to improve a person’s life or what act of kindness can I personally do, and it doesn’t take much money or even much effort. Not only are you making an impact on a life you are improving yours too.

An example is smiling at somebody just because you can. Or paying for someone’s shopping, make someone a cup of coffee, saying you look nice or I appreciate and I’m glad that you are my spouse.  ANYTHING IS WORTH EVERYTHING.  And we can always think of something.


Have a good day today, I know I will.

I Would Rather Have Cancer Than Be Homeless

Posted by: homelessgirl on: September 3, 2009

This may be an offensive post to some people who will probably think I have no idea what I’m talking about. This may also make people think I  am being over dramatic, but right now this is how I feel.

I’m not saying that having cancer is easy or any sickness is good. So let me get that straight.

This whole experience that I’ve gone through has been the worst thing that has ever happened to me, the truth is I have no control whatsoever over my life.

Most homeless people or disadvantaged people have options in their lives. Even if you are sleeping on the street, you have the option to look for a job, to volunteer, to go on assisted living. I have none. I am a statistic that no one wants and an afterthought that has never been seen by society. I am neither here nor there but living in a world of uncertainty just barely hanging there.

But if I could trade my homelessness for someones sickness, I would take it. Not because I think cancer is less than homelessness but because my pain would be external and not internal.

I would be able to look forward to getting better or dying.  Either way there is an end.

I could go to a hospital and be in one place, I wouldn’t have to move around and beg people to let me stay in their house.

Even if I lay in pain I could control the pain with medication and lie in a bed for as long as I wanted. I don’t even have a bed to call my own.

Many times I wish I was someone else. When I have conversations with people I look at them thinking I wish I was you right now so you could take the thoughts I have about what I’m going to do next or the vast emptiness of where my happiness used to be. I wish you could take it so that I wouldn’t know the pain you are going through or the lies you tell every time some one asks what you are doing with your life.

I wish, I wish, I wish…

No matter how hard it will never come true. I just have to make the best of what I have.

Yours Always, Homeless Girl

This Blog is 1 Years Old.

Posted by: homelessgirl on: September 2, 2009

By Jack-I

By Jack-I

I don’t even understand how this is even possible. That I started this blog a year ago.

I’m not any better off than I was a year ago.

I’ve achieved nothing new.

I’ve pretty much neglected this blog and not reached my target for how many readers I wanted.

I haven’t even written 100 posts.

But I’m going to try and be better.

Here are the stats.

Most Clicked On Post:

Am I a Raging Bigot:  This is mainly because I have a photo of  a burger and people search for that.

Most Commented:

Attacks From A Random Reader: I think this is because I was having an argument.

Least Popular:

I sometimes Question My Own Sanity

Least Commented:

Many, and probably this one too.

My Personal Favourite:

What Being Homeless Has Taught Me

Here is the Radio Interview I Did

Posted by: homelessgirl on: September 1, 2009

By renanteles

By renanteles

UPDATE:    I found a way to post the audio so you can stream it now.

I don’t know if I really like it, I do tend to repeat myself and stuff.  Please tell me what you think


I  tried for ages to find a way to embed this on to the blog but word press for free is so limiting. So I added it to Mediafire for you to download and enjoy.

Its only about 10mb.

I could only listen to it for about 1 minute because I don’t like my voice.

So now you get to put a voice to the writer and hopefully a face soon : ) I haven’t forgotten my promise.

http://www.mediafire.com/?yzilm4mmdgj

People Are So Damn Nosy!

Posted by: homelessgirl on: August 28, 2009

I’ve told you before that this house is pretty much a hotel with people coming to and fro. Which I believe is one of the reasons I’ve been able to stay so long.

I have come in to contact with some of the most bizarre people on earth and I don’t know what it is but something about going through this pain has made me more aware of  the behaviour of others and their character.

People always look at me a certain way, like they know immediately to treat me like a non-entity.

The lady that was recently here kept asking me in this exact way what was I doing with my life?

And I  always have to lie, that I’m going to uni soon. I’ve learnt to lie in ways that are pathological, i can look into a person’s eyes and lie straight to them and that scares me.

I guess people are always going to ask questions about me, I just wish they wouldn’t.

This Kind of Stuff Annoys Me

Posted by: homelessgirl on: August 21, 2009

COUNCIL staff refused to help a sick homeless man found sheltering in a yard – because they didn’t have his surname.

I don’t know how it is in other countries but I’m pretty sure that in England the way homeless people are helped is ridiculous.

This Story:   http://bit.ly/cD8YE annoys me greatly because I can relate to the same type of lack of common sense that was used in this man’s case.

I remember when my mum and I had been homeless for about 5 months or so and it was already starting to get to us. We were just told to leave the house we were staying at and there was no where else for us to go. We decided to go to the local council office and see if they would help us, we made known the fact that if we didn’t find somewhere to sleep tonight we would sleep on the streets.  We were told, that because I was not under 17, I was not an “at risk” member of society and there was nothing further they could do.

Another instance I tried contacting a homeless on the day we ran out of money for a hotel. If they would be kind enough to let me stay one day, I was told that I would need a reference from the council that would take 2 weeks to confirm if I was in fact homeless and to prove that my house was taken away.

All this stuff annoys me because why have people stopped using common sense? What does it take for someone in need to prove that they are in need. We claim that we are a compassionate society but I doubt that we truly are.

By Bob Jagendorf

By Bob Jagendorf

People Still Think I’m Rich

Posted by: homelessgirl on: August 20, 2009

There’s a girl who has recently came to the house I’m staying at and her dad knows my dad. They are almost neighbours. My dad has a business back home a sort of internet cafe but I’m not really sure as I have not seen it.

Many times she has mentioned my economic status. Except I have none.

We were talking about how I needed a new laptop and she said why don’t you just buy it now. I said I’m not shelling out £900 no matter how much I want it and neither do I have that kind of money. Then she said why don’t you just ask your dad, he is rich and I know how much he makes a week.

Now this as you would expect floored me. I do know that my dad’s business is fairly succesful but what do we have to show for it? And I don’t know if it is because of her 19 year old mentality that doesn’t think about salaries and so forth but still it shocked me.

If I was rich and if I had money, why would I be staying in a house with people I barely knew begging them not to kick me out because I have no where to go. Or put up with the fact that a woman and her three kids just arrived as I am typing this right now bringing up the whole population of this house to 10 people. And that they did this just to get you to leave. Or that people smile to you in the morning but you know they curse you when they lay their head on the pillow at night. Or that on many occasions I’ve come close to starvation and not known where my next meal would come from. I don’t recall any rich person living a life like this.

I’m incredibly lonely right now and I’m not in the best of moods. I feel like I’m dying inside everyday. I’m not the person I used to be. My personality has been taken away and locked in a prison just like I have. I might have joy and hope but I’m not happy, I haven’t felt happiness since I was 9 years old.

God I’m just so sick of this.

Now this same girl, I never met her before but our dads know each other. A few years back her dad asked my father to loan him some money to pay for his other daughter’s rent. He gave it to him, at his time of need.

A few weeks ago this same man came to my dad to tell him to tell my mum and I to leave this house so that his kids can come and stay( he pays no money to the owners of the house in thanks and barely calls them) Because apparently my mum and I have fixed our place here and refuse to leave because we are selfish.

A few days later he went to my dad again to tell his wife and child to leave because they were making life difficult for everyone.  A couple of days ago I accidentaly heard a voicemail my dad left for them telling them he was embarrassed about the whole situation and  embarrassed about what we’ve done and how he didn’t know we were gonna be here. So now my dad is embarrassed by me.  My family is barely united anymore, my brother is engaged to a girl I’ve never met or spoken on the phone with and doesn’t seem to understand how hurt my mum would be if she doesn’t get to attend the wedding. My second brother had a go at me a couple of weeks ago that I was not appreciative enough and that I don’t seem to understand or seem to want to do anything about my life. He has also got a new girlfriend and I have to fight to get his attention.

You won’t believe the kind of stress I’ve been through these last few weeks. Just a constant stream of crap after another that I don’t know how to deal with.

And I know a lot of you readers would think if it were me I would leave, but guess what you’re not me and you have options, every homeless person or broke person has options I have none. If I leave this house I will die, maybe not the day after but I promise you that if I were to leave here and just go on the street I would die within a year and right now that doesn’t seem so bad.

I’m gonna go to bed now because I’m crying so hard in self pity and I don’t want people to ask me questions about why I’m crying.

Goodnight and thanks for bothering to read this.

p.s :Oh by the way as I am writing this the guest who just arrived don’t know that I just heard them asking about me, why I was here and if my mum worked and I just heard them laugh and close the door. What a great life!


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