The Meaning Of Home

A home to me is a place that you feel love even if you're far away. One night I woke up in Ukraine, my first ever home. I smelled smoke, I was scared. I thought my house was burning. I looked out my window and I saw something that shocked me. My school in Ukraine was burning. I woke up my mom. My mom was in shock because that was a place where she worked too. That's the day where it all came upside down. A week before my school was burning, my dad was telling us that there's going to be a war between us and Russia. I was really sad. The Day after my school burnt, we left from a City to a village in Ukraine .There I made some new friends in about a month the war started I got really scared and we moved to a different country.We had lots of fun there but my mom was struggling with money because she didn't have a job there . We did not know the Language either.One of mom's friends from Canada offered us to move in with him . So in about 3 weeks we left for Canada . The first morning in Canada was fun. We got in the car for groceries and it was weird driving in a different place where I had never been before. In 5 weeks, my mom's friend got me enrolled into my new school. I was scared coming into my grade two classroom. I thought that they would make fun of me Because I couldn't speak English. But everyone was really nice and I really loved it there . THE END Be thankful that you have a home

Vladaslava

Grade 4

Oyster Pond, HRM, Nova Scotia

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