Personal Narrative: Picking Turkey

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I had lived in Canada for 9 years, and those 9 years consisted of me trying to learn English, meeting new people, and learning new things everyday. After 9 years of seeing no family such as: my aunts, uncles, and cousins made it harder everyday. My parents decided that it was a good idea to go to Istanbul and see our family there. I can’t describe how excited I was. Going to see them was the best gift ever. Picking Turkey as the country to see our family seemed like a good idea, until I realized I was the only one who spoke the Turkish language. I knew how to read,write, and speak. So it didn’t seem bad at all because I spoke it sometimes and I could translate movies and songs at any time, but the idea of talking to a Turk who was born and

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