Hello,
my name is Michael Schulz. Now I’m 25 years old and I came to India 4 years ago. As you can see my name sounds very German. In fact I come from Hagen in Germany.
When I was three years old my parents got divorced. Because they were both alcoholics I was sent to a children’s home. The same happened to my older brother. But because he was already 16 years old back then he came to another home. The day I had to leave my home was the last time I saw my parents…
So I was all on my own from that day on. I was very bad at school and had a bad behaviour. Nobody knew how to get on with me so I was sent to another children’s home after one year. At that time I was already 17 years old and I fled from my new home. I didn’t know where to stay because my only friends were still in that home. So I had to live in the streets.
In the beginning I did nothing but sleeping in the parks of my home town and getting some food.I grabed the food out of the garbage cans that nobody wanted to eat anymore. But there was no other choice – I had to eat to survive. Furtunately I fled during the summer. Otherwise I had died outside.
After two weeks without normal food and without taking a bath or a shower I made a decision. I didn’t want to live on like that.
In one of the garbage cans -at that time I called them fridges- I found a newspaper with some job advertisments. I needed a job where you don’t beed any qualifications because I had no school certificate. I found an advertisment of the local garbage collection. They hired me and I finally had a job and money. I even found a small flat.
At that time the Beatles were very succesful in Germany and they had a big influence on me. I liked their music and the way they lived. That’s how I got involved with India. One day I heard on the radio that George Harrison went there for his spiritual quest. The country sounded very interesting and it put a spell on me although I had never been there before. From then on I saved all my money for my trip to India. It took me 2.5 years to earn enough money. It was a hard time for me but I kept dreaming my dream. My dream of India.
When I came here I had enough money to live for a couple of years. That happened four years ago…
At the beginning I travelled through the whole country and I could feel the spirit of India. The spirit that the Beatles were always talking and singing about. And that was when I got in touch with drugs. I got the from one of my fellow passengers, Mike from the USA. He had the same aim like me. But he had drugs with him…
I smoked some joints at the beginning and then it became worse and worse. I couldn’t get on with my life in India any longer. The drugs became a part of the spirit of India but I couldn’t feel that spirit anymore.
I spent all my money for the drugs. So I couldn’t go home to Germany. Nobody there knows where I am. But nobody is interested in me.
And now I’m living in streets of Bombay. Almost the same way I lived in Germany. But now I’m searching for drugs and food. Yes, I am addicted to drugs… I cannot get away from them… That’s why I’m living the way I live…
I like yours,m but you habe a little mistake in your logic
“[...]so I was sent to another children’s home after one year. At that time I was already 17 years old and I fled from my new home.”
When you were “at that time” 17, one year before you were 16 – just as your “older brother”. So maybe you should add another time specification around there.
But as I said, the rest is very good and creative, for example the thing with the Beatles, which I also used
Yeah I know… the ages…
It was a little bit complicated for me but thank you for your help 
I agree with Tobias, well done. I also like the connection that could be drawn to Marco from Moon Palace although they are quite different, and yet share something it seems.
The Beatles bit, of course, well used information which here also provides a link to the time the story is set in.
Only a few minor mistakes in language: “grabbed” not “grabed”, “otherwise I would have died outside” (he obviously hasn’t), “didn’t need” not “don’t beed”
, “I spent all my money on drugs”.