Personal Narrative: Corruption In The US

Life is full of surprises, twists and you never know where it is going. When I was I in high school I would never think I would end up here, but I’m grateful and honored.
I was born and raised in Mexico. It was a good life, I had my friends, I was in a catholic school, but some things were not right. My family and I went through a lot, my city was dangerous. It was full of crime, drug dealers and corruption to the point where you couldn’t feel safe. Since I was little, I remembered listening to gunshots, it became something normal. When my parents picked up from school, sometimes there were cars destroyed in the middle street full of holes made by gunshots. When I was a high school, two of my friends were kidnapped, at different times, and their parents had to pay money for their safe return. My dad’s business was robbed and he was held at gunpoint. Thank God, nothing happened to him. Nevertheless, all of these events, made my parents make a decision. They decided we would immigrate to the United States and get the residency; this was possible due to my dad’s new job at a forwarding agency. He wanted a better life for us. We moved during my senior in high school, and I applied to Texas A&M, (College Station) to chemical engineering. I was accepted into the Galveston program, where I would go to Galveston for one year and then to College Station where I would

Unfortunately, the expense was too high at that moment, we were 3 siblings, we just had moved in a few months ago and I would have had to pay as out of state. My parents decided that it was