Chores, School, and Childhood Responsibilities

A new beginning It 's 6am and I hear my mother calling me, "if you don 't get up and do your chores you won 't go to school". This was a constant reminder of what our responsibilities were if we wanted to go to Elementary School. For my brothers and I, it was scary to think that we wouldn 't be able to attend school, because there were not many options for us besides working in the farm with our father. Attending school was in itself a job, we had to get up early in the morning and do several chores just to be allowed to go and if we didn 't take care of our responsabilaties our parents would sign us out of school and expect us to go work. It didn 't matter what age we were, everyone was needed to do something around the farm.
Getting to

Where teachers teaching methods were kind of silly, making us copy whatever they wrote on the chalkboard and rewrite it over and over. Our homework was pretty much the same deal, after all it was only elementary school. Lunch at our school was an adventure, there was a river behind our school so we would go out there and look for fruit trees. We would eat mangos or whatever fruit we could find and some boys will even go swimming. So arriving to a place that had everything that I needed at my fingertips and lunch served in an air conditioned room; not understanding anyone or anything made it a very terrifying experience in many

I consider myself a career student, I never have enough, if I am not taking college courses I am studying real estate, evictions, bankruptcy, child custody, divorce, accounting, property management, etc. My passion is knowing and learning about different things in life, until this day people make fun of me, always asking when will I be done with my degree or why don’t I have a certain type of job. I always reply with a smile, saying, I am the jack-of-all-trades. I have been a successful entrepreneur for 15 years in real estate sales, investments, loans, and property manager I don’t think I need a degree to do what I enjoyed doing I just need the knowledge and determination, I enjoyed learning and someday not far I will have a degree not because I need a better job or to prove to anyone that I am worth it, but to prove to myself that I did what I was sent out to do. I lost both of my parents already, so I won’t even have the satisfaction of showing them that I did what I was sent out to do. They wanted their daughters to do better than staying in a small city raising kids and working in the fields. I feel that I have accomplished everything that they wanted for me. I am a self-employed business owner that until this day, ( not out of need, but out of pure love for learning) studies hard and enjoys everything that life throws at me. After all,