December 18, 2013 My Journey to America
I’m a 12 years old boy who is from china, and I’m actually on my way to America. I don’t know why I feel so nervous, is that because I’m going to a new country, a new culture? I have no clue/ answer that might explain how I feel right now. It is a hard journey as a result of it’s taking so long, and I’m getting so tired! We just passed three days so far, and we have around five more days left. Five days later, finally we are interring America! Oh my God! I see a lot of different nations from other countries around the world. That makes me feel scared.
Now my parents are looking for a place to live in. They finally found a room. I was so exhausted because it was a long journey and I need to rest. When I interred this room I was totally shocked! The room is so crowded with different nations. They call that a melting pot because it’s a mixture of different cultures who are living together in one place. Next morning I woke up and I found trash surrounded me; there was a big pile of trash actually. The room was dirty, slummy, no sanitation. I felt sick when I saw that! I can’t believe that I’m going to live here for the rest of my life!
Now my dad got a job, and I’ll work with him. We are on our way to there, (sighs) almost there. We finally arrived to our work on time. It was a hard work to do, but I tried my best. I got freaked out when I saw who is hurt got fired just because he got hurt! It was a horrible day. SERIOUSLY A HORRIBLE DAY! I got more worse when I heard about the Chinese’s exclusion act. The congress limited our immigrations just because the born-American got bothered as a result of the Chinese were getting the good jobs. They think the American worth it more. That’s racist, and it’s not a good beginning at all! Now I can’t see my family. They unfortunately can’t come to America.
I want to go back to my homeland, but I can’t because my family needs to make money first. They call it land of opportunity, but I don’t see it that way. What good in it that they made Americanization act: it’s a program to teach us (immigrants) about the American culture. I didn’t really care but I liked to learn new stuff other than that was nothing.