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Personal Narrative: My Journey To Ellis Island

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One day when I woke up I was getting ready to go to America. I was leaving with my Dad, Mom, Sister, and my Brother. My family and I are leaving leaving from Germany and going to America. We are going to bring clothes such as shirts, pants, underwear, socks, shoes, and hats. We will also bring soap, food, and other stuff like that to survive in America. We are getting ready to arrive at the dock and set sail on our journey to America.

My family and I have to take a boat to get to Ellis Island. Ellis Island is a place where immigrants can go and get inspected and get to see if they can come to America and be legal immigrants. You have to take a boat to get to Ellis Island. The boat we had to take was old and but it looked nice and clean on the inside. The boats name was The LA Veloce. There was thousands of people on the boat. Also, there was two huge American Flags inside the boat. …show more content…

The rooms were nice. They looked like they just got cleaned. There was one bathroom, one shower, one sink, and a couple of beds in our room. As we started to walk around on the boat we seen this big gigantic statue. Everybody in my family asked what is that statue? One passenger over heard us and answered our question. He said,”Das Statue von Freiheit”. Which meant The Statue of Liberty.

As we arrived at Ellis Island there were officers greeting us as we got off and pointing us in the direction we needed to go to. There was a lot of people struggling because of all the luggage everybody had, there was men, women, and kids struggling to get everything to the baggage room. It was hard for us to stay together because there was so many people their. We were able to get to the baggage room without be separated. When we got threw with the baggage room we had to go to the next place which was the stairs that led to the Registry

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