I really don't know what to write. A story of mine? I never thought about
it, talking about myself isn't easy but I don't think it hurts to try, right?
Should I talk about when I came to the USA? It happened to me like it
happened to the lives of several people. Each person’s story is different with different emotions. For me, I felt several emotions a few days before enter-
ing the USA. They were not some of the best emotions.

When my father said he was going to come to the USA the first time, I wasn't going to come, I was going to stay at my aunt's house in Cuiabá, the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. I was sure of that, I was confident that I was going to stay in Brazil. Eventually, my father gave up on the idea of coming to the
USA and I thanked him, because I didn't want to leave. I was scared of living
in a new country with different people and different languages. It all scared
me.
My father not leaving didn't last long because after a few months, he wanted to see the United States again. He was ready to sell the place where we lived,
the car, motorcycle, and other things. Eventually, we saw our way to Mexico
and then we crossed the border and here we are, America.

It was difficult here. Everything was very confusing and different. We were used to living abroad, spending days and nights and it was very bad, because I didn't get used to it; we spent six months getting used to life until we moved to Lynn. For me, nothing was easy. I came face to face with a new language in a totally different new school. The first few weeks were very bad and I was left anxious and half-hearted and I felt every time that I remembered to go to school that I always had a bad time. As time went on, I got used to it, and I understood a little bit about America and even though I didn't speak English at all, I understood some things and enjoyed the taste of life here in the United States.

It is still not easy but also not impossible, America hasn't convinced me yet I
still don't like it very much here, but here is a good place for those who like it
people who care about me, America is a good place, a place where you live
well, I think America brought me things that are not good but maybe I just
haven't seen the good side of life here yet and I hope to see it soon.

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