Overcoming Obstacle

The biggest obstacle for me was when I was six and having to leave home. I was born in Guatemala and that was home for six years of my childhood. At that time most of my family lived in the United States and my family had saved enough money to bring us to U.S. that was my mother, brother who was four, and I. I remember sitting their watching television as the classic Michey Mouse cartoon was playing. My mom was packing a backpack with clothes and I didn’t why, just when a Disneyland commercial came on and my brother and I looked at each other and asked my mom if we could go there not knowing where it was. My mother looked at me and said “very soon, are you ready” I knotted my head yes as she turned of the television. She had to leave my brother and I at one of her friend’s house because she was going to the embassy of Guatemala to see if we could get passport. She had to camp there if you wanted to be seen by the embassy early in the morning. I remember her leaving and it was dark outside but she wasn’t by herself, she was with my aunt. My brother didn’t take it so well that she lef...