Chapter 20 Questions / Vocab. & adobe

1. His vision of New York City before he got there was from his rap music.
2. I think New York is all full of graffiti and is all bum mish looking.
3. He did not know what winter was because in Sierra Leone it never gets that cold, and he had heard of winter from Shakespeare.
4. When he had first felt NYC’s weather he thought it was the coldest thing had ever felt.
5. A time where I felt culture shock was never because I have always experienced all of my cultures physically.
6. They are staying in the YMCA hotel by 47th street.
7. There are children from all over the world and different countries.
8. He was baffled by the food because he had never seen food like that before and also it was hard to adjust because he was so used to his old life.
9. He learned that all the other children there were there because they all had gone through something similar in their past.
10. Laura Simms is an instructor that told stories to everyone, she was a short lady with long black hair and bright eyes.
11. He did not accept the jacket because he said it was a girls jacket, and I would not either because I rather be cold than look like a fruity kid.
12. Well when he and Madoka visited Time Square he stated seeing big screens with commercials on them some with flashing words, some with underwear models, and other types of commercials.
13. The conference was so the people there could know about them and everyone could learn about how their countries were and he felt as if he were very nervous.
14. Ishmael talks about how he had to become a soldier to be able to support his family but turns out that his family ended up dying, and I liked the sentence where he states “ it was not easy being a soldier, but we had to do it”, because it is very true any where you go.
15. Yes, I do agree with his speech because he told the truth and everyone was astonished about it.
16. One experience I had had a while ago and I still have to work on it till this day was when I got into trouble with the law for the last time I still have to pay a large amount of money in order to be set free.
17. I think music and dancing is a big part of his life because its what he has done ever since all of the problems started.
18. He left New York City on November 15, 1996 in which his birth date was only six days away.
19. He was going back where his uncle lived after he had had his fun and terrific experience in New York City.
20. I think he is going to be chosen to go back to New York City and live there for the rest of his life.
21. I think his life is going to be different back in Sierra Leone because he has a really good experience that no one else around there has.
22. I think he will return to the group he was from but maybe not all of the others will be chosen to go back.
23. I have experience growth from something negative when I was 15 my mom and I had a big fight and I thought I was never going to talk with her again but it actually brought us together more.

• Generate- to create by a vital or natural process.
• Accumulating- to gather or collect, often in gradual degrees.
• Radiator- a device constructed from thin-walled tubes and metal fins, used for cooling circulating water, as in an automobile engine.
• Baffled- to confuse, bewilder, or perplex.
• Facilitators- a person or thing that facilitates.
• Compelling- having a powerful and irresistible effect.
• Awe- an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, fear, etc., produced by that which is grand, sublime, extremely powerful, or the like.
• Oriented- to familiarize (a person) with new surroundings or circumstances, or the like.
• Overwhelmed- to overcome completely in mind or feeling.
• Mesmerized- to hypnotize.
• Aimlessly- without aim.
• Influential- having or exerting influence.