03 Oct 2010, 5:21 am
I am an international student from Hong Kong who is studying in Bendigo, Australia. For half an year I had lived in this house with three white Australians: the 22 years old lease holder with AS, his 24 years old wheelchair-bounded sister with Borderline Personality Disorder and Schizophrenia, and another 16 years old Aspie. Four months later this new guy had moved in, who I was told is a "old friend" of them: a con artist and racist that had conned them before.
Before that new guy come I had been living peacefully with everybody, but after his arrival I found that I have been increasingly isolated socially. In the old days, I was friend with that Aspie teen as we are both video game enthusiasts. The lease holder rarely even left his room let alone social contact, but I used to talk quiet a lot with his sister. Although she often ignored me in group conversations, she became active speaker if there is only me and her. After the arrival of the new guy, however, everything changed: the 16 years old moved out, stated that "big sh*t would happen" if he live here. The sister ignored me more often when in group conversations, which were actively initiated by the new guy. Mostly I was invited to join their Monopoly or UNO games, but otherwise I can felt their "unwelcomeness" when I asked to be participated in the games myself. There was an occasion where I entered the house to find them looking for jobs on the newspaper. When I approached them and joked are there any jobs for me they quickly closed the paper and prepared to left. On her way to her room, the sister said "Everybody have their own skills and jobs they are specialized with, Andy", felt insulted, I replied "You don't need to state the obvious", then the new guy suddenly came with serious voice: "Thats very impolite Andy. You will apologize!" I felt like what the hell? apologize? for what? but at that time we just exchanged unfriendly stares before leaving for our room
And the spark came in her birthday. In the midnight before her birthday, I had a "status chat" on facebook with the sister which, unexpectedly, irritated her. Thats the whole record, notice that the new guy have also join into the conversation against me but have subsequently deleted all his comments:
Her you wish
Her lol
Me wt its actually possible!......if I dont want to go to Syd next yr
Her then you'll be stuck here in Bendigo...
Her actually it's now today
Me happy bday!!:O)
Her thanks andy
Me then you'll be stuck here in Bendigo...
and stink with every lazy s**ts in this good house.....
Her I have the option of moving out and so do you
Her and next year I want to study
Me TAFE?
Her or Uni, depends what is on offer that I can do and what I can get into
Me Well you used to do nursing in uni right? so u still hv a good chance to go back......but how many yrs had it been already? I remember u would suffer credit deduction if u defer for too long
Her it has been a few years now, but I could get in due to my disability
Me Thats always great for hving special treatment......
time to break my leg I guess
Her also I can get in as a mature age student and due to my family circumstances
Me Actually hv all this sum up you should hv finish uni already
Her try having to have physical rehab for a year and having to look after a family member with cancer for a year andy, then see how much of uni you get through. I didn't want to use my family stuff to get into uni and went about it the same way any other person has to.
Her Just because I can use those things to get me into uni doesn't mean I want to. I just want to be treated like any other person.
Me wait wait wait WTF when the hell is the topic heated up??
Her It's a bit of a bad topic for me andy. Most of my friends have finished uni and because of circumstances beyond my control I have not
Me Great. Guess I should shut up at this point and continue on my novel "Fatherland"
The next day when I returned home, I was going to cook my dinner but was prevent by her who was cooking for everybody tonight. I joked that I would need extra meal to be filled up and other stuffs, then the new guy accused me of being "argumentative". I had other problems that day so I wrote my feeling in Facebook:
Then the new guy invited me for a poker game, and joke that I would be beat first. I replied him causally with profanity. I know you guys may say its a problem but believe me, everybody in the house SPEAK with profanity in every conversation. However to my surprise, I was warned by the sister to refrain myself from making any more "fail attitudes". Regarding this as a new level of social isolation, I wrote another status on my Facebook:
Seconds later my status was replied by the new guy: (Again, it was subsequently deleted)
This message, which I regarded as nothing less than a declaration of war, was effectively the LAST contact with everybody except the lease holder. The following week was marked with hostility: all shower soaps were removed; My attempt to ask a question about unusual matter in the house met with yelling from the new guy; In response, I withdrew from the communal dinner system of the house (Everybody take turn to cook for everyone and have to pay for food for the whole house)
Finally, at 9:00am in Sunday, the new guy demanded me to leave the house within four hours with an typed eviction letter and a letter of authorization from the lease holder. Under Australian law however, eviction notice must make at least 14 days before the eviction, in a specific form issued from the Consumer Affair. In a final conversation with the lease holder, I was told that all my outstanding rent and bond would be confiscated for their latest bills. Subsequent SMS contacts regarding my money were not responded. All those later would became what I told to the local legal support.
Shortly after my eviction, I was shocked to find the sister wrote on her facebook that I was evicted due to "physical assault"on the new guy.
What have I done wrong? how come just one night I became enemy with the whole house?
03 Oct 2010, 7:06 am
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