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Creative Title Here It was 3:00AM, and I was sleeping next to my brothers. As i'm in in between my brothers, I hear nothing. Absolute silence besides the wind moving our fragile house. Our sleep gets interrupted by constant gunshots for the fifth time on that week. Growing up in a war torn country of Somalia I went through many hardships adversity and triumph. In Somalia, there was days were I did not eat a full, there was nights were there was no saliva in mouth due to dehydration. In Somalia, I remember the times I use to beg my mom for a book not knowing she couldn't even if she wanted to. but now thankfully I'm receiving all of those. From living on the outskirts of Mogadishu to living in the one of most opportunity filled country …show more content…

(change- move packing arriving new setting ) Luckily my uncle was accepted and was allowed to come to the United States. The journey to America all started in 2004. One morning my mother was preparing breakfast for us, that morning is when all our lives changed for the better. One morning as me and mother and my older brothers were eating breakfast, my mother received a phone call which was odd because if you get phone calls in the morning it's mostly likely the government. My mother picked up the hesitantly. My mother said
“ hello?”
“ yes this is the United states immigration services and we called to tell let you know that your application has been approved and you can come to the United States ”.
My mother was speechless and was was lost of words and could said thank you.
“thank you”. My mother dropped to her knees covered her face and and started wiping tears out of her face. At that time I was a child so I didn't know what was going much the only thing I saw was my mother jumping up and down smiling and being very joyful. we had then went to Cairo Egypt. We got to there.
As soon as we got off the plane a tall blonde lady yelled out my mother’s name “Fardowsa!”
My mother approached and tried to use the the little English she knew and said, “Me no English.”
The lady responded in Somali, “That's fine, come with me”. She took us to a very large white van, and we drove for like an hour. We came across huge apartment complex, we

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