The Life Of A Worker

I am a one of the many workers that constructed the famouse Panama Canal. I am 19 years old and I am a Chinese immigrant. I've seen how many of my close friends have dies because of the difficult job it was to build this canal. The voyage to go to Panama was a challenge all on its own. And many of the ones that were able to survive didn't make it because of the intense heat. It is vey easy to get dehidred in that weather if you dont take care of yourself. If the problems only stoped there. There were all sourt of diseases like Malaria, Yellow Fever, dysentery or dengue just to mention a few. The work is hard. The cosntant fear of being crushed by a train or being sufficated to death by noxious gases is   a constant fear in our minds. An extimaed 25,000 people died building this canal...who knows if there were more