A Trip To Ellis Island Research Paper

My New Beginning

When I started my trip to Ellis island, it was a cold day in grenade, it was snowing heavily and the roof on our house was about to cave in. me(Pека), my brother(Arnold), and my father(Boris). My mother died when I was 3years old in a car crash, my brother Arnold is annoying and reads a lot, but he also helps me with my homework and does all my chores for me. My father is very bossy and yells at me a lot for having bad grades and getting in trouble at school. He does keep me out of trouble and keeps my grades up but, I still don't like him very much. We packed all our stuff into one bag each and headed out the door to go towards the train station. When I got outside it was so cold my lips turned blue and Arnold said his face was gonna fall off it was so cold. …show more content…
The train smelled awful and people were stuffed into the train. When the train ride was over I was so happy to get out of that old smelly train, and I seen the huge ship setting there waiting on me to climb aboard. When we got on the ship it smelled terrible, just like the train did. Great, I thought, a whole week on this old smelly ship going to America and it was going to be worth it I thought. Arnold did not like boats and he gets sea sick easily so he was throwing up the whole time and my father was nervous they were not going to accept him into the US so he was panicking the whole time. I was the only one that was calm, because I knew if I didn't get accepted I could go back to living like normal, although there was one thing I was afraid of and it was that we got