Write a 8 pages paper on interview with an immigrant. We lived in a pretty cheap motel near the job place, there were three people in our room: me, my brother and his friend.El.: Absolutely. But we didn’t have any choice. We were paid $7,35 per hour and we needed to pay for housing and food. In addition, we were supposed to travel at the end, so it also required several expenses.El.: It happened accidentally. You know, one day I just realized that I had no future back there in Ukraine. Even though my city Odessa is big enough still there was a little chance that I could have got a well-paid job there and could have managed success one day. Ukraine is a pretty much poor and corrupt country, it is not that easy to become successful there if you don’t have, you know, so-called good offices.El.: Hard to say. I didn’t get my hopes high about the thing. In the beginning, we all had legal job offers, the Social Security Numbers, and everything was settled for us. Together with my friend Nastya, we decided to stay and we were too excited to understand that life in America is not that easy and sweet as it seemed to us. We moved to Chicago because we heard from some other immigrants that there is a strong Russian-Ukrainian community and we thought they would help us. But you know what? They didn’t. These people just pretended like aware of helping and like they were happy to welcome us. But in fact, they were too obsessed with their own interests.El.: I don’t think we thought about this. We heard that immigrant communities are pretty powerful and at least they could have helped us to get jobs! But you know what I realized then? That this patriotism Ukrainians are used to promoting is totally pretended. If you put the Ukrainian flag above your bad it doesn’t mean that you are a patriot. I believe it is not real patriotism, because think about this: how can you say that you love your motherland when you escaped from there? .
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