Personal Essay: Bilingual Analysis

Growing up in a migrant family, I was accustomed to my parents’ foreign language at home. I recall back in kindergarten, my teacher gave me a low grade because I did not speak in her class, what did she expect my parents did not know English in order to teach me to speak English. Spanish is the main language my parents mostly spoke, but for school it did not help me, I thought as a girl. Throughout the years, I determined myself to speak English my whole life because I am breathing the American culture and Spanish at my house. My parents never had education due to severe poverty. I never realized the benefit I have of being bilingual. Since I am heading to the medical field, being bilingual will challenge my comfort zone with others. My community is accustomed to English is the main language, since our population is 50 percent white and 50 Latino. I would say our community is blind by race relations because everybody is used to being in their own comfort zone. Mostly when my parents go to order food or anything I would be the one translating, they can understand what they say, but they cannot speak English. During my senior year, I decided to take a class called Career Connections which is a mentorship program in which one gets experience in employability skills. My mentor-ship was in journalism and, there I meet my mentor. She is

As human beings we naturally stereotype people are good or bad, but for me I set everything aside and build my confidence to create friendships with other races. I embraced my skills of being bilingual, and learned from her to see the perspectives of others who fight to be noticed in the news and media. She made me break the tunnel vision I once had to seeing what reality is. Personally, to break down those problems meeting new people made me closer to my mentor and my