I come from a Mexican family, sometimes seen as traditional closed-minded people, but I would consider my family open-minded. My family thinks that in order for someone to be somebody in life we need to get an education. My parents acknowledge education and see it as a priority since they noticed in their country how education was something elite people would get due to resources. For them, at a very young age they started to work in order to maintain their siblings and their families. Even though school was in mind for them, duty was not a choice. They had to do this whether they liked it or not. My father was coursing middle school in Mexico when my grandfather passed away giving him no other choice but to leave school and search for a job to maintain the family. On the other hand, my mother was not able to finish grade school and started to work at an earlier age, compared to my father. Both told me everything they had gone through, of how hard it is to keep up when a beloved has passed away. I on the other hand, have this opportunity of an education, one that in will not let go that easily. I know that in life I might encounter problems in which I will learn to rise above them. It is possible for me to achieve the things my parents were not able to do when they were young due to the opportunities the United States offers. both of my parents are living , but even though my mother is not living with me in the United States , , I manage to keep on with life thanks to the help and support of my father. For me, the turning point of my life was when I was living in Mexico, due to my grandmother’s death. I was new to the country; my parents enrolled me in middle school. I did not have any choice where to study in Mexico or go back... ... middle of paper ... ...r they start arguing for thing that have no relevancy or they just forget that it ever happened. This is why I kept my problems to myself. I would prefer to keep them as secretes and try to solve them in a decent manner to overcome the obstacle. This has helped me understand people that surrounds me specially those who encounter problems every so often. I try to help them by talking with them and telling them of what could happen if they do not analyze the situation first. I try to do the best I can in order to help them overcome their obstacles. With the help of my parents and others, I am most confident that I will accomplish all obstacles that might come in my way. I just hope for all of my dreams to come true one day and for my parents to be proud of me. I will be forever thankful for all the things my parents went through in order to see me succeed in life.
My family is not the richest out there, but we take pride in what we have. Taking care of the bills and working overtime was taking a tremendous toll on my mother’s mental health. I decided to help my mother out, and got a job as a way to help lessen her stress, and to provide for the family. At first working and balancing my school work was extremely hard. The first couple of months of working, my grades dropped tremendously due to me not having time to study and do homework; but yet I could not quit my job because my family was depending on my paycheck in order to continue living “normally”. I would find myself falling asleep in class as the teachers were talking. My grades continued to drop, until I finally took action. I talked to my managers and changed my shifts to only the weekends, so that I could focus on school during the weekdays, and work on the weekends. This improved my grades from the way it was before, I now had more time to study and do homework, and even could now stay after school to get one on one help with the subjects that I was struggling with. I learned that “yes helping my mom with the bills will benefit the family tremendously, but me not getting good enough grades to pass and make a better future for myself than my parents did will hurt them more than me working”. If I don’t start taking actions for my responsibilities in my life, I will not go anywhere, and I will be living in regret. I took charge, and although I am not where I want to be academically; I will continue working as hard as I can to become successful not only in high school, but life in college and after
I come from a low income family with no background. My parents do not speak English. When we first moved to America, I had to teach myself English and then teach it to my parents. It is agonizing and heartbreaking to see how hard my parents work for my siblings and I. As immigrants, they work day and night in order to provide us with a better education and life. My mom leaves for work at 4 am and comes back at 7pm. My dad leaves at 5 am and comes back at 8 pm. Ever since my sister and I were young, we had to act like adults. We did all the chores, study, cook and more. My parents sacrificed a lot for me, just so I would have a taste of success that they never...
Growing up in a Mexican household where education isn’t a priority or important has been one of my major obstacles that I’ve had to overcome. Although my family’s culture believes that education isn’t necessary their experiences and lifestyles have influence and motivate my choices for my future. I come from a home where I have no role model or someone influential. I have no one to ask for advice for college or anything involve in school. In most homes, older siblings help their younger siblings with their homework or projects but in my house no one was able to provide me with any help. I grew up to be independent and to do anything school related on my own. My parents are both immigrants who didn’t get to finish elementary
I moved to the united states of America on February 14 2002, I came here to start afresh and begin a new life of opportunity, I must admit I never knew what to really expect other than what I've seen on television as such, it was a dream come through for me. However upon my arrival I realized and experienced that it was really as expected but in order to live a good life I had to work hard to achieve it. In my family I am the first son of my father and that automatically puts a lot of responsibility on me, responsibility on me to care for my parents, siblings and even my grand parents this has been hammered repetitively in me, we are an African family and the culture is different even the norms as well,
When I was born, my family had just migrated to California from Mexico. In a new country, my father worked in landscaping earning less than $4 dollars an hour, while my mother relied on public transportation to take her newborn child to and from doctor visits. In the land of opportunity, my family struggled to put a roof over our heads. But never discouraged, my parents sought to achieve their goals and worked tirelessly to raise my younger brother and I. From a young age, I was taught the importance of education; this became a major catalyst in my life. My desire to excel academically was not for self-gain, but my way of contributing to my family’s goals and aspirations.
Life for my parents as first generation Mexican-Born Americans was somewhat grandfathered into a role in a time where America was facing the biggest drug epidemic, racial discrimination against poor working Mexicans, and gender equality roles becoming more present during the Reagan and Bush administration. They grew up on the notion of becoming a better person in modern society and they took advantage of the benefits of education in order to obtain a better job than the one their family was forced to by working in the grape fields for more than thirty years. I recall my grandfather giving the best advice about going to college in order to work in better environmental conditions such as working in an office with the luxuries of an air conditioner. He continued to mold our way of thinking to being better working productive citizens; in that he could trust that we would have our daily bread at the dinner table every night reunited with one’s family. Since that was the biggest struggle for my family when they lived in Mexico, since they never knew if they would partake in decent modest dinner every evening; for that is the main reason that my grandparents and their families immigrated to this country at a fairly young age; so they would not have to endure harsh
Finding the right path when solving problems creates harmony for people around me. When people have problems, I assist them. Usually, I strategize a plan, thinking about the problem from my own perspective. When I realize my solution towards the problem, I can suggest my solution to them. However, I understand that I cannot solve all problems or my solutions may not work, but learning from experience and receiving knowledge design the right strategy to the problem. In addition, I can learn how people solve their problems in order to help my family and friends when they go through the same problem; noticing the pattern makes the challenge easier to solve. Then, I can lead people to the right
At first, my very first experience in the United States is so bored, depressed, and hopeless. It was a new journey for me, I learn a language that I had never learned before, I get bullied just because I am the only one Asian who do not speak English. However, my life has become better when I realized that the “American Dream” is possible. Well, for me, the term “American Dream” is fitting for the one who attends at school, who has confidence and hard work. It might be a dream for my generation but not my parents. I saw my parents struggle to keep my brother and I fed. They worked more than two jobs, just to help us finish our education, paying our rent, and everything. I saw them suffer in tears, to sacrificed their future to let my brother and me to get a better education and opportunities to
Education has always been a priority in my family. My father has come from very humble beginnings; where both of his parents were illiterate. He was raised on a farm with 16 brother and sisters. His parents put their blood and sweat into sending him to America in achieving the “American Dream”. My father had worked multiple jobs to support his family back home in Haiti. Today, my father owns his own taxi driving business stationed in New Jersey and New York City. My father has worked exceptionally hard in supporting and making sure I have all the necessity I need to mature as a person. My father’s parents not being able to read and not being able to assist him in his growing education has lead him to appreciate the idea of education in furthering a person's life. In addition, my father is able to provide for me more then his parents were able to provide for him educationally and financially
When I would get out of school and on weekends, my father would pick me up to go help him work. During summer even working up to 30hours. All the money I would make in tips from working would go towards my family. My personal experiences of work hard days labor since I was a young age has ultimately propelled me to seek higher education and fight for the better life my parents have sacrificed so much pf their lives for. Going to college not only benefits me and my life, but also provides a good influence for my brother, sister, and cousins to seek higher education. I believe the hardest thing is to be the first generation to go to college, and from personal experience it is. But I have worked and studied all my life to hopefully pioneer a path for future generations in my
Conflict is something that you encounter pretty much every day. It is almost inevitable that you will not encounter conflict as you through your day or doing anything else. There are different ways to confront conflict, and it depends on the type of person that you are. The different ways that people can confront conflict are either head-on or just complete avoidance. When people avoid a conflict, sometimes it tends to work in their favor, but sometimes it does not and the problem just becomes bigger. Also with handling it head-on there are some major problems. Sometimes the people who confront those conflicts are not people who can express themselves in a good manner, so they tend to blow things out of proportions. “Our basis understanding
I am a person who believes in education as the best method of overcoming in any area of life, I am honest, respectful and I like to influence people with my behavior in a positive way. My love for teaching in long standing from the age of 12, I began to teach to read and write to neighborhood children in the courtyard of my house. I taught more than 100 children, some of them with learning
In my life there were two events where I realized that I was actually making it to adulthood: the year my sister left for college and the year my mom started her second job. Now, neither one of these may sound life changing to you, but they affected me in more ways than I can describe.
My parents arrived in the United States hoping for a better future not for themselves, but for the baby they carried in their arms. We would often move from relatives ' houses since my parents couldn’t afford renting an apartment themselves. We were fortunate enough to have caring relatives who didn 't mind us living with them since they knew the hardships we were going through. I grew up in a household where only Spanish was spoken given that both my parents didn’t speak any English at all. When I was in kindergarten, my teacher was afraid that I would be behind the rest of my classmates, given that I only spoke Spanish fluently. I was fortunate to receive free tutoring from my kindergarten teacher. We would often read books together until
But through it all, I am glad i developed through life the way I am, getting my first real job really help me but my best foot forward into the working world of being in adult. I learned a lot of new things, especially the darker and brighter parts of it all. It really helped push me to do other things that I was afraid to do, like getting my license and my car. I thank my father and my mother for being an influence even if it was negative a lot more than I would have liked. All of these events changed me and made me the man i am today, and I would never go back and change any of