Free Narrative Essays: A Trip To Ellis Island

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The first thing that I heard about Ellis was when I bout the morning news paper. the first thing I saw was Ellis Island I read the article and desisted that I was going

the tickets were 13 dollars I saved my money. And it took three months to get that and the money for the train ride there I had to walk to the train because I did not have a car it took two day with not much sleep when I got to the train I did not get a good seat I got a wooden seat next to this little girl she asked if I was going to Ellis island and I said yes then I asked her and she was going too. She said yes then I fell asleep...............

that night

I did not wake up until the next night there was food on my table it was soup I do not know what it was but it was cold but it tasted OK I ate and went back to sleep because it was a 4 day train ride
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I got in line and they told me that my room number was 1342 it was on the very lowest level there was two other women that I shared the room with they were sisters and very nice we went to get food it was OK we went to bed the next morning we got more food it was the same thing as last night ant it was the same thing that night too

a week later we were steal eating the same food and it kept getting worse it was really grouse the same food continued the next week we get off

the statue a person yelled we are hear I am so exited we get to get off

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