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Potato famine
The potato famine took away our crops, we usually go days without food, and because of that, mother is very ill -
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Moving to America
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Decisions
Mother is very febal, and we have no choice but to pack up and move to another country. "America," my father said,"is where we shall go, It is the land of freedom, we can settle down there and get land for free!" he pulled out a poster, written with bold letters "Free land" -
Packing up
We are finally done packing, I have brought along a sapphire necklace encrusted with diamonds, it was passed down to me from my ancestors, some money, clothing, a quill and ink, and some letters from grandma and grandpa -
Boarding the ship
Alas, we are boarding the ship to freedom, we went to our first-class cabin, it was a great view, and Ireland became smaller and smaller -
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Life in America
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Arriving
Hooray! We have arrived in America, the land of freedom, the Statue of Liberty stood in front of Ellis Island, it felt good the first taste of freedom -
Motel
Our arrival in America is followed by a not so great welcome, my parents money was robbed and my money can only afford us to stay in a old motel -
New Year's eve
Today is the start of a brand new year, I got a job as a factory worker, and father became a porter at the docks, mother stays at the motel -
New ideas
My family is exhausted and money running short. We have to find a new plan in America, we need land, that's what we came here for -
The Factoring shuting down
There was a terrible news this morning, the factory I worked at has shut down because of a health hazard and now, our family was kicked out of the motel -
A friendly family
After losing our jobs, we had days without food, when we completey hopeless, a brithish family let us in their house and gave us food, my parents thanked them greatly, as they see how hopeless we were they offer us a job with them at the mclaggen's grocery store -
Moving on
The year passed by, we had enough money to buy a wagon and two horses, so we decided to move west to find land, the Mclaggen's decided to join us -
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Moving west
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Harsh weather
We travel on and on in the harsh weather, an unepected frost poured away all of our strengh to travel that day, so we stopped to rest -
Cold!
As December moves in, our food is becoming scarce as the blizzards starts to move in. We will be lucky to survive this long journey -
Spring
We had barely survived the winter, but we are close to our final destination and spring is here, we dropped by a small town to get food supplies -
We made it!
Yes!!!We have made it to the west side of America!! The woodlands seem endless and the land is plenty, fresh air lightens our spirits as we settled down -
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Settling down
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Happy ending
We have settled down in the west side of America, my family opened up a bakery and the Mclaggen's opened up a grocery store, our shops became famous and I am engaged with their son Jack, and that's how my family settled in america, THE END
