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* I arive in America
I arrive in America through Angel Island so as a result I have to take a test and do an interview. On the test I got super lucky because I didn't know the answers to the problems. During the interview I lied about my criminal background and I said that I was a rice farmer and the drought in China killed off my crops so I had a bad harvest. -
So much discrimination
I settle in Seattle, Washington in a Chinatown. I can't find a job because no one would hire me because I am chinese but I end up working at a sweatshop. The pay was really low and I get payed less then the whites even when we do the same things -
* My house gets robbed
The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed last year so now I face even more discrimination. My house was robbed while I was working and 8 friends were killed when a group of white men came rampaging thorugh my neighberhood and shooting the asians -
I start my journey to the west
After being robbed I can't recover so I take the little savings that I have and I sell my samurai sword in order to pay for a ticket to go west. When I arrived in Kansas I talked to the owner of the transcontinental railroad and got a job getting $30 a month for laying down the tracks for the railroad -
* Danger at the railroad work sites
The work sites for the railroads didn't have the neccesary precautions so as a result there were lots of accidents that happened. For example, someone was stuck in the cave when we were blasting some rocks away with dynamite and he was killed in the explosion. Also the owners of the transcontinental railroad didn't give us very many safety equipment so when a cave caved in someone was stuck and was seriously injured. Finally diseases ,like smallpox, were spread around camp all the time. -
* I retire from the railroad
As a result of working for seven years for the railroad company I now have saved up enough money to settle in another Chinatown in Kansas and open a resteraunt so I don't have to do somehting as rigorous as railroad working but I can still recieve a steady income.
