Personal Narrative: Moving To America

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“W-Where am I? Oh, I just slept on my bed sideways.” I groggily got out of bed and ate breakfast. The day went by normally. When I got home from school, my whole family was gathered in the living room. My mom and dad looked like they are thinking about a decision they made. My brother looked like he went through a tornado-like always. “Seth, sit down” Mom commanded.
“Um, okay”. My parents eyed each other on who should talk to me. Finally, my dad said “We’re going to move to California.” My brother was yelping with joy. He always hated New York's Weather; he hated to cold. As for me, I didn’t care either way. I could still do the same things at home in California. We started packing right away, but I didn’t want to at the moment, so I went
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I then understood why we moved to California. I don’t remember anything after that because I must fell asleep pretty fast. I had better hopes for us until I woke up from something shaking. I had no idea why. The 2nd shake caused my parents to wake up. My brother was scared it was an earthquake. “Tim, it’s not an earthquake okay.” Tim calmed down a little. Seconds after, there was a major shake beneath us. The PA told us to evacuate the …show more content…
Another skyscraper toppled down sideways right where people were running. People started to run to the shore, but by the time we were running, the skybridge right in front of us fell down. Hundreds of people were killed. A few peoples legs were stuck in the rubble, cyring for help. Nobody went out of their way to help them and left them. I was frozen, having no idea what to do. When I heard the next skyscraper fall was when I started to focus back. I ran to help the 3 people who were stuck. And when I looked around, my family was gone. Thousads of people were running by me and I felt scared; more scared than I ever was before. Life was so easy back then, and now we took it for granted. I went with my instinct and run to the beach. There weren’t many people there. I couldn’t find my family. “MOM!” “DAD!”. People looked hopeless, I couldn’t blame them. Navy vessels came to the beach and nobody looked happy. Most of the people couldn’t find their family or friends; asking strangers if they have seen them. The few people went into the ships and I followed… alone. As I see more people screaming and more buildings falling. It makes me hope the future will be

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