Narrative: Moving To America

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Narrative Did you ever wonder how it feels when you are young and travel from one country to another foreign country that you have never heard about? For me, it was a very life changing event to move to a Nation that I’ve never even heard of. It came so sudden, One day I was in Ninth Grade, doing class work, and the next moment I was told my Dad is getting deployed back to the United States because of his job in the U.S Army. Then I move to an U.S Army Base, where I’m surrounded by so many people who I don’t know. It will change my life for ever. It was the year of 2013. It was a snowy day in the cold month of April, in the large Metropolis Mountain town named Karlsruhe, Germany. Karlsruhe is by the Mountains, or better known as The …show more content…
My classmates and I had to wait outside till the school building opened. I went to my first hour class, which was Bible Study, and the teacher assistant us partners to study the land of Israel, how Jesus lived and his way of live. The teacher for some reason, was talking to the principle and the school counselor on the phone, because all of the students as usually know just to stop working and to start talking and horse playing around. But I was just sitting there and the teacher called my name and said I had to talk to the Principal, so I went down to the Office. At that moment I was told that I am moving to the United …show more content…
So We headed to the airport and got to the terminal, I did not know how to feel because this was my first time flying. My dad me “Everything is going to be alright.” So then I went on the airplane and found out that it was not all that bad. The airplane seemed to go as fast as a race car at moments. For the first few hours we flow our France and Spain, the cities looked like tiny trees and streets where hard to see. THe clouds looked like pillow that you could sleep on. Then came the Atlantic Ocean. At that time I thought we were at the corner of the world. Then we finally came to land, and I thought to myself, “Are we back in Germany?” My dad had to explain to me that the United States was a different country and the world was round. I knew that but I didn't realize that we were in a different continent. But after I a few moments I realized that I was in a place that was nothing like Europe or Germany. Everyone spoke English. Lucky for me that I learned English. My dad told me that we were in Georgia, For a minute I thought it was the country of Georgia, but it wasn’t it was a state in the U.S. My brother started to complain that the trip took to way too long and he said “I’m going back to sleep.” That moment on I also went to sleep. The next moment when I woke up, I knew that I was on a plane again for two hours. It was raining outside, and it was very foggy.

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