How had I fetched up into this strange new life, where drunk foreigners shouted around me in the night, and all my clothes were dirty, and nobody loved me?
I feel so sad reading this. He is a gifted boy, displaced without his mother, in completely new surroundings, learning how to live life in a new way at such a young age. It's a lot. If I were him, I would be longing for the past because it was objectively better.
