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Descriptive Essay About My Car

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Loud talking, cars honking, and people looking for their family and friends. That is all you hear when you’re at the airport in San Salvador. I was with my mom that day, we were looking for our ride out of the airport. Our ride was our cousin Imelda with her dad Josue. Josue was a tall, dark man with curly black hair and a short beard to go with it, he was also wearing his work clothes which were very dirty because he worked on a farm. Imelda is a short dark girl with long curly black hair. She was wearing a red dress with white flowers. Most of my family has dark skin with dark curly hair, according to them I was “gifted” with light skin. Our uncle took us and gave us a ride on an old bus, it looked like it was from the 70’s. He took us …show more content…

When we got there we were walking around and seeing the attractions like the old Spanish colonial buildings in the old part of the city. After some time we got hungry and ate at a small restaurant. The inside was so colorful and it was filled with pictures of festivals such as El Dia de la Raza, La Resurrección, Dia de San Mateo, and so much more. After we ate there we were planning on going to the west side of the city, but the police would not let anyone in. Instead we went to a different town north of Santa Ana, Texistepeque, this town was a former Mayan or Pipil city. The Pipil were one of the former native people who lived in El Salvador. It was early afternoon when we got there. This time we couldn’t take the bus because the road we took was too narrow, so we took a small rickshaw. The ride there was great, I loved looking out and seeing the countryside with all the animals wandering around. In the town we went to a few stores and bought some things, they got me a woven Mayan bracelet with my name on it. I still have it after almost 6 years. Mom bought herself a Pipil dress, a Mayan dress, a blanket, and a purse. All of these things were very cheap compared to things in the U.S. It was getting dark out, so we stayed with a family friend named Tómas. Tómas looked like he was in this late 20’s or early 30’s, a short man with short brown hair. He had a small house in the east side of the city. We ate some food and after a while we went to

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