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    My Life as an Immigrant: Being in the United States of America
    My Life as an Immigrant: Being in the United States of America
    My Life as an Immigrant: Being in the United States of America
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    My Life as an Immigrant: Being in the United States of America

    By Diana Frederick

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    searching for jobs to survive without a green card and trying to find help as an immigrant .

    then desperation comes in when you meet the wrong guy thinking he is going to help you.

    watching someone run away with your money when you thought they are helping you file for you proper documents.

    having to get arrested by the FBI and sleeping in a jail cell for a night was nightmere,then comes this tall handsome man into your love and happen to stand by your husband side as his best man.

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    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateDec 17, 2012
    ISBN9781468507874
    My Life as an Immigrant: Being in the United States of America
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    Diana Frederick

    My name is Diana Frederick, Am originally from Trinidad I grow up in a village called Belle Vue in a family of seven kids and I am the baby of my siblings. At times things were hard for my mother having to take care of us without a father, but we make the best of things. I had my schooling in Trinidad and studied business and after I finish school I had a daughter and now she lives in Portland Oregon. And so I said some day I will love to go America and get a better life so I could help my brothers and sister just the way I saw the advertisement on the television about the big apple. I live in New York now in Brooklyn; I have a one room apartment. Searching for jobs to survive without a Green Card and trying to find help for betterment, then desperation comes and having to get arrested by the FBI and spend the night in a jail cell. I want to tell the public how being an immigrant is really like and the things you go through without proper documents in the United States of America.

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      My Life as an Immigrant - Diana Frederick

      © 2011 Diana Frederick. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      First published by AuthorHouse 12/5/2011

      ISBN: 978-1-4685-0787-4 (e)

      ISBN: 978-1-4685-0788-1 (sc)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2011961439

      Printed in the United States of America

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      This book is printed on acid-free paper.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

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      My Life As an Immigrant

      My Life As an Immigrant

      Being in the United States of America was a dream comes through for me, when I got my Visa I was so excited and full of joy that am coming to the big apple.

      So I organize myself and get my ticket and pack my bags, even though everyone told me it was the month of November and it is very cold, I didn’t care I was just excited and want to go to America.

      And so I set out for the airport and boarded the plane and on my way I go, while am on the plane all I could think about is the big things and what am going to do when I get to America.

      And finally the plane landed in America, and the plane stop and I got out in the airport in which a friend of a friend pick me up, so I could go stay at the house while am in the USA for 2 weeks that I plan on staying.

      But when the fourth day pass, the lady of the house who were calling me her daughter from before I reach to America, and even when I get to her house 3 days before the fourth day, decided to switch on me by telling me do this and do that and take her grandkids to school.

      And I know got to America for the first time in my life and don’t even know where the front from the back is, so she even went on by looking to see if and what am drinking from the fridge, and saying she don’t cook much anymore since she is moving to Florida.

      I didn’t even know she was moving, because she didn’t mention a word to me and it was the same weekend of the same week I came, and go as far saying to me that she is selling the house.

      So here I am scared wondering what is going to happen to me because I now came to America for the first time and I don’t know what next to do were to go or who to call.

      And she turns and looks at me and said that I have to find somewhere else to go.

      Meanwhile my eyes are wide open and my belly start hurting so bad it was not funny, I said to myself is this the start off for me in America ?

      Although she knew I didn’t have anywhere else to go, but I said to her ok and I left and go out into the street until I meet a liquor store.

      I look at the outside of the liquor store, and I walk towards the entrance and push the door and walk right in.

      A guy from the Caribbean were selling lotto at the machine, and I walk up to him and ask how to play the lotto game, and when he spoke to me I then ask what country you from, and he then told me that he’s from Trinidad.

      And so I purchase couple of the lotto and we both started talking a little, then I told him am looking for a job and he told me what papers to buy and which section to look for the job.

      I must say thanks to him and for the IRISH ECHO classifies for getting me my first job in America.

      So anyway I went on telling the guy about the lady am staying with and how she is moving, and what he thinks I should do.

      He said the best thing to do is get a living job where you can stay on the job doing housekeeping, or babysitting so you don’t have to come out much to stay at anyone place, and you could get to save some money to buy what you want for you and your family.

      So I did take his advice and got myself a living job Monday to Friday so he said the IRISH ECHO papers comes out on a Wednesday morning, and so I came back out on the following day which was the Wednesday morning after dropping her grand kids off to school, because she had told the kids to show me where the school were, and after picking up the papers I pass by to look for the guy at the liquor store to tell him thanks.

      And he give me his phone number so I can call him, and I said okay I’ll take it because I don’t have a phone number to exchange, so until I get a phone I will call you with my number when am settle.

      So I left and went back to the house and on that same morning I knew I had to act quickly, because the lady and her grand kids were leaving on that same weekend coming which will be the Saturday of the same week I bought that IRISH ECHO papers.

      So I started looking into that classified section immediately and saw a few numbers to call, and I mark it off so that when the lady left the house to go at the doctor for 12:30pm, that will be the best time to make a couple calls concerning jobs before they leave on Saturday.

      And so I start calling and the first call I made was to New Jersey in which the ad was for a house keeper, and the woman ask if I could come for an interview that same day for 2 o’clock in Spring Field, and I told her I will come but not for 2pm, because am in Brooklyn and I have to wait for the lady of the house to get back in.

      And she was nice enough to say sure no problem, and she give me the proper address and which bus to take and where to take it.

      But I know the lady were going to pick up the kids after her doctor visit on her way home, so I had time to get myself together, and she don’t have to question me about where am going.

      So I left a little note telling her I will be back before 6pm that even, because am going to find a friend so I can get situated and have some where I can stay before she leaves on Saturday.

      So I call the guy at the liquor store and give him the good news and ask him where I go to get the train from where I am to go Manhattan.

      As I told him I did ask the lady that am staying by before she go at the doctor, where can get the train to go into Manhattan and she said she never took a train since she’s living in the U S.

      And the guy at the liquor store told me where I should take the train, so I went on my journey to seek the housekeeping job that I called about, and got to Manhattan and ask around and get the information I needed to get the correct bus for New Jersey.

      When I got their I was so proud of myself that I didn’t lose going and coming, and I got to see the woman who needed the housekeeper and she offered me a cup of tea or coffee, then she ask me how soon can I start working after getting some information about me.

      I said to her as soon as you need me I’ll be ready, and she said as soon as yesterday and we both smile, and I said that will be great but I have to go get my clothes and I could start working tomorrow.

      And she then gives me money for my travels and enough for me to travel back to work tomorrow. So I came back to Brooklyn and told the lady I got a job in New Jersey and am leaving in the morning, and I just want to say thanks for having me stay here for the few days and I which her and family all the best in Florida.

      Then I took a walk out the street to see if the Guy where still working from the time I had left to go New Jersey and back, but he were not there he had left work and gone for the day.

      So later on that same evening when I came back in from out on the street, the lady called me upstairs and started showing me all her things that she have, and all of her jewelry and birth stones plus all the clothes and

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