“They didn 't want me to go but I wanted to,” Anna Sandrzyk says. Anna’s family was terrified of having their only daughter leave home at the young age of eighteen. Life in Europe was simple. There were little towns with miniature shops and farm land that spread across the landscapes of Slovakia like an enormous blanket. That just did not seem to be enough for Anna, she had a passion for traveling. She traveled all over Europe whenever she got the opportunity. France, Yugoslavia, the Czech Republic and Germany were just a few of the countries she visited just before setting her mind on America. America seemed to be on the top of her list. Growing up in Europe, the villagers would describe America in numerous ways. For instance,“America is rich, …show more content…
Although the trip was life changing, it did not come without a price. “Ohh no way, no, there were so many complications,” Anna repeated.
To begin her broad journey across the Atlantic ocean to America, it seemed there was something wrong with the wing of their aircraft that she was eventually supposed to board in Prague. “ I 'm like, we are going to crash! We are going to crash!” Anna exclaims as she imagined the aircraft that she would be boarding on as soon as its wing was fixed. As she was waiting for her plane to be restored, she was switched to another flight. This caused her a little confusion, but later was content. At least she did not have to deal with the broken winged aircraft! After about an hour, she was told that the wing is fixed and they are ready to board. Hesitant, she finds her way to the plane and carefully gets into it, trying to get her mind off the worry that was flooding her mind. After realizing that the plane was in good shape, Anna got as comfortable as she could in the airplane chair and fell asleep. Finally, she arrives to New York at 10:00 at night. She needed to get to Chicago, but the next flight was in the morning.
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Through all the disturbance, brights lights, and traffic, a bus drove past and stopped. She looks at it and seems to have recognized those numbers before. She quickly scrambles in her purse and reaches for the receipt that she was given at the airport. It seemed to have been the same exact number that appeared on the bus. The doors of the bus creaked open and the bus driver motioned for her to go onto the bus. Staring at him with confusion, she just stood there. Anna said, “He actually walked out from the bus and I showed him my paper.” The bus driver lead her to the bus, showing her that this is where she was supposed to go and was then driven to a hotel. Anna did not know it at the time, but she was given a hotel room by the airlines and was given a place to sleep. Since she was an alien to America and understood no english, she did not know what to do in New York. She was all alone thinking that she has no place to go to. As the bus came to a stop, she was led to the hotel door and all the way up to the thirtieth floor. A boy that led her to her room and spent a while showing her all the particular functions of it. She was puzzled by this, but that was the last thing on her mind. Before he left, he stood at the door and politely asked for a tip. She looked at him in uncertainty. He noticed that she did not understand him so he just smiled, waved, and
She pulled herself together, and walked into the bus to find a very organized kitchen, bed, and an outhouse. Carrie was not surprised at all because her brother had always been very organized. She had a flashback of the games they used to play as
Anna and the Swallow Man’s journey begins in Krakow, Poland. She met the Swallow man in this city after her father was taken. He reminded her of her own father and because of that, she started following him outside the city. Anna conveyed to him that she wanted to travel with him, but the Swallow man said “’I will take you back to Krakow’” (Savit 36).
Sarah said we could just have some bread and coffee, so we ordered. Our coffee arrived, but there was no bread. The waiter mumbled something, and we noticed a young woman ride off on her bicycle. After a while, she came walking the bike back up the hill with an unwrapped loaf of bread in her front basket. As she passed the window we were sitting at, the loaf of bread fell out of the basket onto the sidewalk.
Anna Maria Klinger arrived to America in the 1800’s from Germany. On her vogue to America Anna Maria would have safe travels across the sea and find companionship among a couple women. Anna Maria found the women to be annoying at times due to their “loose behavior”. Arriving to America Germans are accepted and given work. Anna Maria would be employed as a servant for a German family.
While she was being raped she decided to study his face. She escaped her house by telling him that he is she wanted to go get a glass of water. She fled out the back door and was able to get a neighbor to help her. When she went to the police station, they took her to the local hospital to get the evidence from her,; for
He looked up at the bus driver and saw nothing. All he saw was that the bus driver was gone and the door was open. Tynan got up to check if the bus driver was anywhere near the bus outside. He started walking back to his seat and hit his head. He looked up and saw this clown looking thing as tall as the bus itself slouching over and
People who travel abroad seem to enjoy sending back reports on what people are like in various countries they visit. A variety of national stereotypes is part and parcel of popular knowledge. Italians are said to be "volatile," Germans "hard-working," the Dutch "clean," the Swiss "neat," the English "reserved," and so on. The habit of making generalizations about national groups is not a modern invention. Byzantine war manuals contain careful notes on the department of foreign populations, and Americans still recognize themselves in the brilliant national portrait drawn by Alexis de Tocqueville more than 100 years ago.
I couldn 't understand what was happening. I believe her central question was she didn 't have anything to read and they took away her pen and that she didn 't have any paper. She answered her central question by finally
In the nineteenth and twentieth century, as Europe started to conquer the world, many places became “safe” to the females to travel, inspiring many female traveler writers at this time period. On October 15, 1831, at Borough Bridge Hall, the little baby girl Isabella Lucy, named after her two grandmothers, was born (Stoddart 8). Little did the family knew this girl would someday travel around the world, visit Korea, and write about her journeys. As a female traveler writer, Isabella Bird presents her journey in Korea as an opportunity for discovery, examining her journey carefully and writing everything as true as it is in an opened mind. Isabella Bird seemed destined to travel, even as a woman in the nineteenth century, everything around her, her family and her health, prepared her for her journey of traveling the world later on.
Her dark brown eyes surveyed each of us as she spun her practically white blonde hair around her slim finger. We told her we needed directions and she said to us that she needed to stay at her post. Rather than leaving and walking us over to where we needed to go; she gave us a map, drew small arrows with Sharpie and sent us off on our way. We found the ride surprisingly quickly. I slide into line right behind Aunt Christy and Patrick prepared to wait.
In the school fully of more than a hundred people, she felt so alone but had to “suck it up” and realize that she isn’t going to beg for help, friendships or anything in life , she just has to live it. Eventually , the night was over Justyce went back home drained from so much crying and fell asleep to lead her into the next day where it was all pretend smiles and laughs continuing to the days she lives
Charlotte Stewart was pacing inside the store, looking out the open doorway. Jeanne looked around, but there was no sign of the man who woke her. “Good afternoon, Mizz Charlotte. I’m sorry, I’d laid down for a minute with the baby, and I guess I fell asleep.”
This is not her first trip oversees, as a ten-year-old, she travelled to Europe with her family as tourists and dashed all over Europe stopping by different cities just long enough to take photos. Going to Ireland was never a plan, it was her intuition and subconscious that pushed her to take an opportunity to reinvent herself. In Ireland, she settles into a bohemian lifestyle of waitressing, bartending, drinking and dancing in Galway. She becomes roommates with Carly who evidently becomes her “wise life guide” and who is addicted to the rush of being a foreigner. After four months in Ireland, she goes back home, still confused, to finish her final year of college.
Consequently, Anna’s caution emphasizes her desire to avoid further life tragedies. Anna’s child describes her gracefulness as “she walks slowly through her house” and “has never lost her balance or bumped into a closet door” (1). Upon accepting her past mistakes, Anna moves carefully to avoid any future ones. In her past performing with the Flying Avalons, she would constantly be in danger without realizing the value of life because of her youth. However, Anna now has a greater reason to live, by replacing the Flying Avalons with the family she would risk her life to save.
At the start of the story she is just around the house contemplating of how her life is. She moves up and down to ensure everything is in order before her mother-in-law arrives. After ensuring everything is properly arranged, she goes to the station to go pick her mother-in-law. On