User:Sashafox2010/sandbox

My name is Alexandra Seright. I was born in February February 18,1990 in Russia in a little town called Yeask.I lived whit my mom from when I was born till I was 3 years old.After I turned 3 years old I ran away from home.I lived on the streets beginningfor money and food. Sleeping on the streets and in bushes whit my older brother Volva. He kept me safe and looked after me in the harsh winters and tried keeping me warm. Then 2 years later me and my brother got put in the orphanage. We wore taken care of at the orphanage the best way they could.At the age of 7 I started getting sick and my hands wore cracking from the cold and I was always at the nurses office. I was run running 103 degree fever and the orphanage couldn't figure out why I was sick. in 1999 I was admitted into a hospital and was treated there for my fever then the doctor in Russian figured out what was wrong my tonsils wore infected and swollen and caused my high fevers. The orphanage couldn't pay for my tonsils to be removed.So I kept being sick. Then one day the orphanage director called me into her office and told me that I may have a chance to be part of a family and get adopted. I was not sure what to think of that so they recorded me on a tape and sent it to a family in America.In 2001 of February A woman named kerre came to see me.She took me out of the orphanage and took me to a hotel where she was staying at and brought me books that looked weird to me the words didn't make sense I spent time whit her I was 10 years old at that time she wanted me to spend the night whit her and I freaked out I thought she was trying to kidnapp me I have never been out of the orphanage whit one human being. She didn't know what to do whit me cause I didn't speak her language at that time so she brought me back to the orphanage that same night. The next day she came back and brought me bunch of clothes that had letters on the clothes that I couldn't read and didn't understand.After a few days a gentleman came named John I didn't like him at first. Then a few days later I meat a man named Egore he talked in Russian and another language that I didn't understand that the 2 adults understood and I communicated whit them through the translator named Egore. I signed paper work that I didn't understand. Later that day I went to an office to take my picture and the lady told me that my real mother passed away in the jail in 1999 that was right down the street from the orphanage that I was at. I was heart broken I was crying and upset. Then later that day I was taken back to the orphanage I was very upset that the orphanage never told me that my mom passed away. Three days later the people left then that summer they came back and I had a going away party whit my orphanage family and friends and I left all my clothes that wore given to me for my classmates at the orphanage and got in the car whit kerre and John and Egore and left the orphanage. we drove to Krasnodar. It was weird being around these 2 people that I didn't know and couldn't talk to them. John this man I didn't know took me to a park in Krasnodar and we wrode rides and I had fun. When we got back to the hotel i played whit dolls and I fixed Johns hair and then we got on an airplane. I have never been on an airplane before we lifted of the ground and I was scared I didn't know what was going on. We arrived at this town called Moscow and we went to the hotel unpacked it was cold in Moscow. The next day I went out to the red square and it was different there lots of people and lots of solders we took pictures and I ate weird food and John got me a doll. Then kerre the lady we went on the tour of the red square and then I meat a man named Pasha that lived in Moscow whit his family he helped me comunícate whit my new family Kerre and John. We took a lot of pictures and I had lots of fun. I was in Moscow for a week. Then the flight to America got delayed so we wore stuck in Moscow for 3 more days my new parents wore not happy. Three days later we wore in the Moscow's airport and my parents couldn't get any information cause they didn't speak Russian and I was a kid I kept running away in the airport the parents couldn't keep up whit me and couldn't talk to me sense I didn't speak their language. Then at midnight we got on the airplain and I went to sleep.

When I woke up it was bright I looked out the window and saw pretty land and trees then 3 hours later we landed in this town called Lubbock it was August 15,2001. I got of the plane and I looked around and got scared I couldn't understand anyone everyone was speaking a weird language I was greeted by these people I didn't know and they hugged me and kissed me and smiled and I didn't know was going on then we got in the car and went to the house that I was going to live at here in lubbock I have a brother named Ryan is 5 years old he hugged his mom and was happy to see her then I got to their house which I live in now and I had my own room then there wore bloods and party hats and cake a welcome home party I was the new member of an American family. I didn't speak English at all I thought it was very weird the people and there language I had a hard time adjusting to the new life. I dreamed abouthe that came true. I got a second chance in life. I was 11 years old when I came to Lubbock Texas. I had a tutor for learning English and I started school in August. I was so scared I cried the first day at Honey Elementry. My mom had to come to the school and calm me down there was a boy from Eukrane that spoke Russian he helped me talk to the people at school and I got tutored after school it took me 3 yearsto learn english. I am 25 years old now still living in lubbock Texas and still learning every day. I have a great family that I love and cherish to this day for giving me a new life and hope for my future.

Alexandra Emily Seright