My Motivations For Exploring The Americas

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My motivations for exploring the Americas would have to be the new adventure and the new things that could be done! The journey to the Americas was rough but it was worth it! Being in the Americas is a very eye opening journey because we have to settle in the new land and making a way of life could be difficult. Having so many people with me is a big plus we can all work together to get where we need to be. Seeing the new sites we never saw before was also great. Coming to the Americas was good idea so we can basically start new. Having to interact with the Native Americans was difficult but we got used to it they didn't understand and there was some contriverse but all together everything was all right. Breathing the air we never breathed

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