ACE Exercise 4 Prisoner

31-1-11
This is my two hundred and fifth sixth day in prison. I still have about a month to go before I will be finally released from prison. I really cannot wait; staying in this three metres by three metres steel box with four other people is really very terrible. It is so cramped inside, and we have to do our private stuffs in front of everyone. And worse still, there is only one bed in our cell; that means that each person gets to sleep on the bed only once every five days. Even though the bed is very hard and not comfortable at all, it is still much better than sleeping on the hard, cold floor at night when it can get very cold and make me feel numb all over when I wake up in the morning. Sometimes I cannot even manage to sleep. If only I had not been so gullible and tried to steal a lady's handbag, I would not have landed in such terrible conditions for about nine months. The food here is horrible too, it tastes like its been put in the freezer for weeks. The food always made me feel uncomfortable in the stomach. However I do not have any choice but to eat it or else I would starve. The only good thing about being in prison are the free lessons to learn new skills such as cooking and gardening, and the exercise day when we are let out into the field to play soccer or basketball. Today is exercise day, and I'm very happy as I can finally get to breathe in fresh air. We were let out to the field for about two hours and I had a lot of fun playing soccer with my fellow jail mates. Time flies and soon, I found myself being herded back to the cell again. The day passed rather uneventfully and slowly after the soccer game. Ah, another day has passed, one less day to freedom!