Lisa Kallai - January 28, 2008
Arrival in London
So you said your farewell...
Yes.
...and your parents knew you were leaving...
Yes.
...how long was the trip?
Uh, we left at midnight and we traveled all, all night, the following day, the following night and arrived in England midday...in London midday.
At the Liver...
England in the morning.
Was it the Liverpool Station?
Yeah.
Um, did you have food on the train?
Uh, we had a lot of chocolate but they confiscated all our drinks in Prague so we had nothing to drink. We were actually absolutely parched when we got to Holland. In Holland there were women on the platform who gave us water...we gave them sweets, they gave us water. But...
So, first to Holland...
Yeah and then by boat Harwich to...
The Hook to...
Yeah, the Hook to Harwich.
Yeah.
And, uh...
And where in England did, did you wind up?
Uh...
Some...I assume someone met you at the station.
My aunt...I had an aunt who was herself a refugee...my uh, one, uh, sis...my father's sister. She met me at the station. I spent a few days with the family that she was staying with and then I went to boarding school in...it was a refugee school in Surrey, Haslemere in Surrey.
It's a nice countryside.
It's nice countryside. It was a beautiful house but I was very unhappy at that school...the only one at my school that uh, really didn't adjust.
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