Anna Waas
Core 1 Group B
History Character Project
Hello, my name is Zhang Min Xu. I have long, straight, black hair. I am 5’1 and 32 years old. I have two kids. A girl named Li Na and a boy named after my father, Liang. I was born in the Guangdong province of China. My mother was a wealthy merchant in the Cantonese province. In addition to that, she was a member of a thirteen member guild of Chinese trade merchants. They acted as representatives for the Qing ruler to manage trade with companies like the British East India Company. My father, Liang Xu worked on a trading post outside the walls of Guangzhou. These posts were referred to as “barbarian houses” by the Guangzhou residents because people all over the world would come to trade at …show more content…
We slept on a bench until morning. It was cold and rainy and our boots were soaking wet. We sat on the sidewalk, begging for food. A nice, old lady named Mrs. Waterford took us into her boarding house and provided food for us. We were ever so grateful. We were warm happy for the first time in forever as we sat by her fire. She gave us a blanket to cover ourselves as our clothes were drying up. Back in China we took our bed, food, and shelter for granted. We realized we were lucky to be alive, but we were just glad that our long and exhausting journey was over. Mrs. Waterford has a brother, named Charles Morgan who was a merchant in New Bedford who owned a whaling ship. Mrs. Waterford was kind enough to arrange us a job with her brother to get us back on our …show more content…
After we would remove the harpoon from the whale, no one clean up the boat. Because of this, the boat had oil and blood stains bringing in rats, cockroaches, bedbugs, and fleas. The food we ate was mush that was stored in medium sized tubs. We would get paid in relation to the profits we made. Since we were inexperienced we only received 1% of all of the profits, but even that was a great amount compared to the other inexperienced workers on the boat. While we were there we would all be petrified of what would happen after we would shoot the harpoon into the whale. The whale would either come to the boat and sink it, or it would die. We never knew what would happen, so all of our hearts would race until the whale was pronounced
Core 1 Group B
History Character Project
Hello, my name is Zhang Min Xu. I have long, straight, black hair. I am 5’1 and 32 years old. I have two kids. A girl named Li Na and a boy named after my father, Liang. I was born in the Guangdong province of China. My mother was a wealthy merchant in the Cantonese province. In addition to that, she was a member of a thirteen member guild of Chinese trade merchants. They acted as representatives for the Qing ruler to manage trade with companies like the British East India Company. My father, Liang Xu worked on a trading post outside the walls of Guangzhou. These posts were referred to as “barbarian houses” by the Guangzhou residents because people all over the world would come to trade at …show more content…
We slept on a bench until morning. It was cold and rainy and our boots were soaking wet. We sat on the sidewalk, begging for food. A nice, old lady named Mrs. Waterford took us into her boarding house and provided food for us. We were ever so grateful. We were warm happy for the first time in forever as we sat by her fire. She gave us a blanket to cover ourselves as our clothes were drying up. Back in China we took our bed, food, and shelter for granted. We realized we were lucky to be alive, but we were just glad that our long and exhausting journey was over. Mrs. Waterford has a brother, named Charles Morgan who was a merchant in New Bedford who owned a whaling ship. Mrs. Waterford was kind enough to arrange us a job with her brother to get us back on our …show more content…
After we would remove the harpoon from the whale, no one clean up the boat. Because of this, the boat had oil and blood stains bringing in rats, cockroaches, bedbugs, and fleas. The food we ate was mush that was stored in medium sized tubs. We would get paid in relation to the profits we made. Since we were inexperienced we only received 1% of all of the profits, but even that was a great amount compared to the other inexperienced workers on the boat. While we were there we would all be petrified of what would happen after we would shoot the harpoon into the whale. The whale would either come to the boat and sink it, or it would die. We never knew what would happen, so all of our hearts would race until the whale was pronounced