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Living in a New Country
Phuc Dinh
September 18, 2014
English 093
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Living in a New Country

I. Introduction Paragraph
How many people come to live in the US each year? Most of them think the US is very good country for education and lives. Therefore, more and more people accept leaving their country, relatives and friends to resident here. With me, living in the new country is the hardest thing I had to do and that make me more confident and adult.

II. Body Paragraph 1
Everything is new and I didn’t know anything about this country. I came to the US with my parents and my younger sister without house, job, English…. We had nothing. So, my family lived at my aunt’s house. My parents began finding jobs, my sister and I go to high school. We did all of chores for them. Although my parents were really tired after working, they couldn’t sleep early because of taking care of their babies while they enjoyed whatever they like to do. Two family live in the same house that is not easy. After six months, my parents decided to rent house. They didn’t that but they didn’t care about our decision because they thought we did not know English, how to us rent the house. That was truth but I couldn’t let my parents be exhausted because of them.

III. Body Paragraph 2
Never asking them for help, I tried to find the house many ways. In school, I ask my ESOL teacher to let me know which will be required to rent the house. She told me I had to have ID, social security number and make lease agreement with landlord. I also ask my friends to ask their parent if they know someone having house for rent, please, let me know. After school, I usually walked around my place to look for houses and search online. I found a lot of houses, then I made appointment to visit the house. I visited three different houses before I rented my house now. I always ask my friend to go with me to visit the house to help me communicate with landlord. Fortunately, I was introduced to landlord is Vietnamese by my

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