Reflective Essay: Growing Up To Canada

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Whoosh! splash! about three years ago, there was a fire not an extremely bad one, but enough to burn the hills up by my house, the firemen got rid of it in just a day but after that there was a bunch of smoke in Wenatchee. Every one was wearing smoke masks for fresher air and no one was playing outside, and it was so smoky the farthest you could see is about 5ft. Every one who had asthma could barely breathe and was the worst, unfortunately my mom and I are some of those people who have asthma. So we decided to go up to Canada with the rest of the family, but our dad stayed and had to work. When we were on our way to Canada there was a lightning storm BOOM! CRACK! BANG! you could see the lightning bolts in the cloud, but it didn't last

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