Saturday, September 29, 2012

Day 3 of movie

Today in class we continued to watch the video we have been watching for a few days. We learned that one man is from a tribe called the Dinka tribe. Many of the men that come from this tribe tend to be very tall in height, and he is too. The few men they are showing i the video mainly all got at least one job in the first year of being in america. John has two jobs that he got and one of them is frying hamburgers at McDonald's. Since they only have bikes for transportation, and most of them have to travel far distances, they get volunteers from their jobs who are willing to drive them to take them, and they will take them to their second job too when they are done at their first one. They start work at two am and sometimes the volunteer drivers have to be places earlier so they sit outside of work for about 2 hours at the most and sleep, then they finish their shift of work usually around 12. All the boys would agree that the people in the United Sates are mean compared to where they come from. For example in the 711 near the apartment they are staying at, the man called the police since all 4 of them went in the store together. I thought this was mean because they are sort of judging the boys even though they do not clearly know their background and what they have gone through. Daniel took the approach of going to school instead of jumping right in to getting a job. He wants to get a job that requires more skill then the jobs they could get any day. However, he is starting to see how hard it is to pay for school. Lastly, one of the boys got a letter from his family back home. His family made it through everything how ever most of this aunt and uncles and other family members died.

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  1. Maria, you are doing a great job with these blogs. There is a lot of detail in your writing. Keep up the terrific work!

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