Leaving Home Research Paper

My family decision of leaving everything behind was really out of safety concerns for me and my sisters. My parents had to leave their home and work and come to Florida to make sure we will be in a safer place due to a lot of kidnapping and killing that were going on in the country where we were leaving .It was a big change for all of us but mostly it affected my parents the most. My parents were born and raised in Haiti and leave there all their life until it became unbearable to stay there anymore. It was practically impossible for my sisters and I to even go to school there any longer. We would stay days without being able to step out of the house and most of the time we just had to leave school early because they were
I couldn't understand a word in what they were saying. I went to school and could not even understand what the teachers or the kids were saying. I had to leave all my friends and had to start making friends all over again .I must say until now I miss my house and my friends. My parents were the most affected in all of us, making a new start was really scary .They had to leave everything they worked for all their life. I must say when they decided to come and leave in Florida they really thought it was going to be temporally. Years would go by and still the country had problem and my parents could not see us going back to what we had to go through. Now we have ten years in Florida and I still see how my parents miss their old life. They always say, and I remember also, how life in Haiti is more like a family life where we know everyone and we see friends and family on a day to day basis. Here in Florida, we hardly see people we know, and we see family and friends only on occasion. My parents have to cook now and clean and do laundry but in Haiti we had a yard boy, a cook and a home cleaner lady that use to sleep at our house. Who would not miss this kind of