Personal Narrative-If I Want To Be A Marine

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I messed you and our family, I hope you all are alright. I wish if I could be there with you just for 5 minutes to see you but I can't. Since that day we went hunting the fish we found in ocean i knew something wrong will happen.
The ocean swallowed us and we pushed away from home for very long days. While we were fishing in the boat. suddenly a strong storm came the waters started going crazy. we have lost control on our boat. And the ocean just pushed us away. So many days we stayed on that boat no food no water left. Close to die trying to survive all these days. but, once we all were sleeping I saw a bird standing on the bout. I knew there must be an island nearby. I waked everyone up in the boat and warned them of a nearby island.
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the captain of the ship they picked us named whitfield. He told me I can be whatever I want to be if I tried hard. Not like what we believe here. There's many jobs out there in the world Guess what? i'm a samurai now. All the time they laughed at me. now am finally a samurai. Am sorry I will miss you and all my family. But am going with him to america to learn a lot better stuff. Also I learned how to speak english. There's much better stuff our country need to get open on, they can not close themselves there forever, captain whitfield will be my new father we will go around the world to see it explore things and never look back, anyways I hope you won't get disappointed, my group goemon denzo and the others are coming back to home so they should give you this message if you don't believe me about the barbarians they can tell you what happened with …show more content…
America is one of the great countries that we thought it was barbarians place, wrong it’s the greatest place to become what we want to be. In our village we all work together to hunt a whale. but they are few men who actually can hunt and kill a whale the captain told of there's many stuff they need the whale to make it, like the oil from him use to make candles or the meat for food or other a lot different typs he might didn’t told me or he did and I couldn't understand the

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