There is so much to tell, I do not know where to begin. Maybe I should start at the beginning, which was, my trip to Ellis Island. The trip to Ellis island took 8 weeks. There was a lot of people on boat and some of them were seasick. The food on the trip was very bad, and it smelled as if it was too old. After 5 weeks on the ship I got very ill, but it got better a few days later. I met a boy on the boat. He also came from Iraq, his name was Ahmed. Ahmed and I talked a little bit together about Ellis island and some other things. Before we came to Ellis island we could see New York. It was very big. There were high buildings everywhere.
After the 8 weeks we arrived to Ellis island. It was a chaos on the island, but Ahmed and I were still together.
Everybody was checked for diseases and a lot of different things. All the children over 2-years-old, had to walk so the doctor could see if they had a limp or something like that. Each doctor had a chalk, so they could write a letter on people’s coats. If the doctor wrote an “F” it meant facial rash, “Sc” meant Scalp infection, “K” meant hernia and the most dreaded letter of all was “X” that meant mental problems, and people marked with an “X” were usually sent back where they came from.
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