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Mexican Earthquake Short Story

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In the beginning of 1985 in Mexico there was an earthquake that killed about 10,000

people.I was in that earthquake with my family. It all started in the morning when we were

eating. When all of the sudden the ground started to shake. We didn't know what to do. So, we

went outside there was a lot of people yelling. The earthquake lasted about 3 minutes. When

the earthquake finally stopped we decide to head back to our cabin. I was really sad when we

got there because our cabin had been destroyed because of the earthquake. Julion my brother

was so happy that our house was destroyed. My brother didn't like living the poor life.

"Oh my god!what has happened to our home?" Mama exclaimed.

"Where are we going to go now?" I said worried. …show more content…

I had 5 cousins that lived in this house. My uncle talked to my dad about

going to California. My dad was convinced that he will work hard so that we can be able to go to

California. My family wanted to move because here in Mexico we didn't have enough money.

In my cousins house we lived in a small room that we could barely fit.Miguel and Julion were the

only ones that worked. Me and Sandra stayed at home doing chores in the house.

After, being in my cousin's house for about 5 years my dad got enough to pay for a coyote. A

coyote is someone who takes people to California in his truck. They coyote told my dad that we

have to go to Sonora. He will then take us to California. We started to pack our supplies that we

are going to need. The things that I packed was some old shoes that I had since like 2 years

ago and also some old clothing. We took a bus to Sonora. We thanked our cousins for letting us

stay at their home.

"It's time to go family" Miguel said.

"Yay finally we can go out of this place!" Julion happily answered.

"Don't say that that!" Sandra said angrily.

We took a bus to get to Sonora. There was other people that were going to go …show more content…

I took a glance at him and noticed that he looked

really worried. I carefully started to get in the truck. The truck smelled like cow poo

and the walls had red dots I wasn't sure what it was. There was also other people

in the truck. After a while of being in truck I fell asleep. When I woke up the

coyote was telling us to get off the truck.

"Sorry people but this is how far I am going to take you" Coyote told us.

"No you told us you were going to take us all the way to California" a woman that

was carrying a baby. "Get out of my car or else I will have to call the police" Coyote demanded.

All of the people got off the car fast excluding me. We watched as the coyote left

with his truck. My dad was so mad because he laid him 4,000 dollars for hi. To

take us to California. We didn't know where we were. Some people started to

walk back to their homes. We stayed there with a man that told us he knew how

to take us to California. That night we slept at a small cave that was nearby. The

next morning we woke up early. The man whose name was Oscar told us that we have

to walk.

"We need to walk until we can find a road and then we can try to get a ride" occur

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