c'est la vie • jadon sancho

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7.1.23

"hey tals" Hana smiles answering the phone as she sat on the train to her home town of liverpool, where she had been invited to a family dinner by her parents

Talia has been Hana's best friend ever since she transfered schools when they were in year 9

despite talia being born and raised in Liverpool, her grandparents are orignally sudanese, however, her best friend Hana is a little bit more complicated

Hana's Mum's side is entirely Palestinian, they were one of the first in their city to be affected by the Genocide. The Israeli's came in around 1960 and took her Grandparent's orchard in Yaffa by force, they fled to neighbouring Egypt first, but didn't stay for long, as her great Uncle worked as cargo ship captian, who snuck them onto a cargo ship with their 3 young Kids, Hana's Mum and her 2 uncles. And after weeks of sailing, they found themselves in London

However Hana's dad's side of the family is completely Moroccan, her great-grandfather was a General of the Moroccan resistance army that tried to get rid of the french colonisers after world war 2, but they got caught in their planning stages, and they were going to be jailed, but he fled with his family to Portugal before they were caught. However rumours of him being in Portugal made their way back to Morocco, and the authorities knew, but just in time, he managed to find a ship to England

her parents stayed quite true to their cultures, in fact her dad made sure he taught her arabic, and though its not amazing, she could probably say she's fluent. its weird since she speaks a mixture of the moroccan dialect mixed with a bunch of palestinian too, so when Hana and Talia -who is sudanese- first met in year 9, you can imagine her confusion when Hana tried to speak to her in a version of mixed dialects and very broken arabic

sure she loves her culture and where she's from, but it does mean that her parents do in fact have that old-fashioned arab brain, and even though they've lived in England their whole lives, and adapted to it and tried to modernise, they still even if they don't know their doing it, pressure her into doing things

for instance when she was doing her GCSE's, they told Hana to pick whatever she liked, but everytime she discussed the possibilty of doing something like Art or DT with her parents, they told her that it wouldn't make her very much money if she got a job to do with that, or that those subjects wouldn't get her into a good university, so they would make it feel like certain subjects like science are more acceptable than others, and she felt like she would be a dissapointment if she didn't take them

and so when it came into getting into University, Hana had gotten very good grades so she had options. She could go to medical school, or she could go into Journalism and presenting, something she was way more passionate about

and of course when it came to that as well, they told her to pick whatever she liked, but also pressured her towards medical school. 

and when she picked Journalism and presenting, they said that they were proud, but deep inside she knew they would have wanted her to go to medical school

of course she's done well for herself since, she's managed to get myself a job at sky sports as a runner not long after she started university, and after graduating nearly 2 years ago, Hana managed to earn herself a spot on the evening football show, and now she's a regular