Personal Narrative: My Journey To Ellis Island

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Today we have started are new journey to Ellis island. I was so happy to leave this country Russia my parents died when I was real young and I had no one to take care of me. Now I am 15 going to Ellis Island my dream. What part of Russia I was from was Grenade . The person that took care of me on the streets was Peka My name was dragon.

I was always the one that got in fights in streets but the thing is I actually got of the streets when was 15. I got a job and stayed in a apartment and my goal was to get enough money to go to Ellis Island. A they had a train going to a ship that goes to Ellis island. So I ate me some toast I got out of my Ellis island pajamas then took a nice
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Then we had to walk up these big stairs going to walk up to the registry room they had so much people their so it took forever probably about an hour as I look up I saw people watching us which I thought was weird. When we got to the registry room it was huge. We were checked for eye disease called tracheotomy they told us that it was very contagions when we got up their the man just checked my eye at this point I was very scared because this could ruin my chance to America I was also scared for the boy As he told us to go on as the boy got up it took I little bit longer than me so I got scared at at first but then man said to go on. When we got done with that part we walked around then we got in another line when we got up to the front they sat me down and started asking questions I told them how was homeless then I got I little job to get of the streets and told them about my parent and the people that tool care of me for little while. When I got out of their the boy went in and I told him he could do it and I wanted for him outside. As I waited I was anxious to now how it went when he came out I went up to him and asked how it went he said he thought it done pretty good

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