MY LIFE AND ME

Hi and welcome to my life. My name is Orala and I am 10. I live with my mum, Amal, dad, Tahliil, 2 sisters Sahra and Suhayra, and my brother, Liban.

Sahra (aged 15) is the oldest out of my siblings. Suhayra (aged 14) has a very good sense of humor. Then it's me who is the best out of all of them. Liban (aged 9) is extremely annoying for a boy. My parents, Amal and Tahliil, were both born in Somalia, my ethnic background, and speak Somali fluently. However, me, Liban and Suhayra were born in the UK. My sister, Sahra, was born in Syria when my parents lived there. Me and my siblings are bilingual, meaning we can speak 2 languages and more, Somali and English. Enough about them, let's talk about me.

I was born on the 6 of January 2007 in Queen Charlotte's Hospital, Hammersmith. I grew up a cute, chubby baby unique to everyone else. My name, Orala, is my grandma's (dad's mum) name who had unfortunately died before my eldest sister's birth. When I was 1 year of age, me and my family traveled all the way to the Middle East to visit my granddad (mum's dad) who is still alive today. In Saudi Arabia, we made a journey from Jeddah to Makkah to visit the Ka'bah.