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Narrative Essay About My Island

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My Island’s faith is special

I really like my island and our traditions. I can say this with more certainty, because when we lose something in life we give it due value.

Unfortunately at the age of 17 I had to take a break from my studies and start working because I needed more money for myself and to help my family. My first job was in Ponta Delgada (a 6-month contract), but then I decided to risk traveling to Lisbon at the age of 18 to get a better job while I was studying at night.

Fortunately, when I got there I had a cousin, who helped me and letting me stay in her house. In Lisbon everything seemed new: the people, the places, the store products, the traditions and of course the accent.
While I worked in ‘’the University City’’ (Lisbon), I met several people, …show more content…

The poor lady couldn’t get up and what the locals did was to get around that lady and move on. I ended up helping her and she asked: "Are you from here?" And laughed and said, "I'm not, and I don’t really like being."

After this sad episode and many others, I just wanted to return to S. Miguel. Besides, one big reason why I traveled was because my grandmother got sick. At that moment I had a good job, but my heart throbbed for listening again our beautiful Azorean accent. So I decided to travel to Ponta Delgada to visit my grandmother Margarida and my aunt Ana, two days before the biggest festival of my island: the celebrations of Christ of the Miracles. When I got home, my grandmother insisted to be in the procession for her. So I went.

This festival has a pure external aspect, where is to be found an atmosphere of profound spiritual devotion. This environment began to be noticed when I arrived at the Campo de S.Francisco and even more when I entered the great gates of the chapel, where Mass was

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