Day twenty-eight

i wake up and realise that i am no longer seasick and that the rumbling of the engine had stopped and it was quiet and peaceful. Then suddenly a smuggler shouts that there has been a mistake - everyone had to pay an extra hundred dollars if they wanted to go to Australia as they needed money for the fuel. Alot of people start crying. A smuggler and sailor goes aroung thrusting buckets at people to drop in theier money. When it comes to us, i drop in two breads but the sailor flings them into the sea. Bibi growls. Rashida takes out a watch from her suitcase and drops it in. " Four people" she says and they move on. I feel like hugging her. It was her Dad's. I hope that if the same thing happens to Mom and Dad, Mom would give up her wedding ring without a fight.