Jonah's Post

Today was a really awesome day. We had a Jewish man from Hungry Name Peter come to our classroom. He gave a really interesting speech about his life. He talked about how his dad died when he was only 6 months old, and his brother died when he was 1. He lived through World War 2, and when he was still really young Russia took over his country. When he was 12 he ran away with other boy so they could escape Hungry. They got on a train to go to Austria and from there Peter went to America. In America Peter went to a New York high school. He could not pay to go to a University so he had to work hard to get a scholarship. He ended up getting full scholarship to a New York college. But he didn't now what he wanted to do so he quite and went to the navy. After the navy he went back to school and became an accountant. He traveled all around America, but now he lives in Rhode Island and is retired happily with his wife. His story also connects to what we are learning in Social Studies about Colonial America because he had to leave is home because he did not have freedom of religon., and people in England came to America because they did not have freedom of religon. All in all I had a really fun day.