Personal Narrative: My Journey To America

Mario and Maria live in a small town in west Texas where the work to take care of their six children. They are a family that migrated from Saint Patrick deep in Mexico where it was very hard to find work, much less feed six hungry children. As a family they decided it would be better to find a way to America as many of their family member before them had decided. In order for them to come to America it would take a lot of money and could be very dangerous. Somehow they found a way to get out of Mexico. The Journey was a very long and tedious one across the river with the children, this way just the beginning of their new life in America.
In their first few months in America Mario and his family was living with his cousin Jose, Mario and Maria and the children that were hold enough went to work in the cotton fields hoeing cotton for a small wage. They did this for work from the early morning till dusk. It was very hot out in the fields and they would drink lots of water. Maria would wake early in the morning and make a meal of mole a breakfast soup for everyone to eat before they started the day. She would also make frijoles (pinto beans) in to burritos with some bacon mixed in to give them flavor; this would be lunch for the day in the fields.
After a long week in the fields the family would go to town and get new
The summer is almost over and the cotton will soon all be picked, the family will need to find other ways to make money. Jose was telling Mario that the dry cleaners are always hiring and it does not matter if you can speak English. They could all work at the cleaners while the children were in school. So in the afternoon Mario and Jose went to apply at the cleaners, Mario explained to the dry cleaner that he was looking for a job for his wife as well. The dry cleaner agreed to hire the three at minimum