Compare Ethiopia To America

Unlike most people here in Eureka, I was born in Ethiopia. Ethiopia is a country in the east of Africa. It is the most beautiful place I've ever been to. Ethiopia is very different than America in so many ways. But Ethiopia and America are not the only places that I've been to. I've been to England, Scotland, Italy, Sudan, and Canada. That’s more places than most people around here have been to. I lived in Ethiopia the first nine years of my life. I was born in a very rural part and lived there for the first six years. We grew corn and other crops and raised sheep and cattle. We didn't go to grocery store for food, instead we ate the meat from the cattle and sheep and the other food from the crops. We had a beautiful lake near us called Awassa Lake. When I was seven I lived in the capital of Ethiopia which is Addis Ababa. I saw many more things in Addis than I would not have seen where I was born. It was much more different than what I was used to and it took a while to settle in. I saw many well decorated buildings and national museums.
When I was nine I moved to the United States of America. Eureka is a little town in central Illinois. USA is much more different than Ethiopia in so many ways. First of all there are more caucasian people than blacks, whereas in Ethiopia it would be predominantly blacks. My first vacation in America was …show more content…
We went to visit them three summers ago. Before we got to England, our plane took us to Scotland, which is the country just north of England. There we saw amazing sites like Edinburgh Castle and old churches. We also went on a cruise on a famous lake called Loch Lomond. There we saw more castles and saw some famous historic places that were important to Scotland. England is probably the most historic place I’ve ever been to. One of the places that we went to was Stonehenge. Stonehenge is an ancient Druid religious site. Its made up of tall stones stood up on their ends in a