Snchz

Everyone have the erroneous idea that in every immigrant family there is always the idea that is mandatory to go to college and have the opportunities our ancestors didn’t have .Not in my family .Igrew up with my parents telling me that the fastest I finish my education the better, that I didn’t need to go to college in order to have a better life in other words my destination was the failure. Ialways think to myself so where is all this sacrifice I’m making right now going? I still remember my first years in America burning the midnight oil trying to learn a new language,I also remembergoing back home with a bunch of words that needed to be translated and a stomach full of dreams ,dreams that by the passed of time have converted into goals. Goals that caught my sleep every nightwith scared not to be able accomplish them but at the same time goals that complement who I am. All of this years the words of my family telling me to finish my education as quick as possible havereally affected me .I have never listen from my parents a “Do your homework”? or “Study” and honestly I don’t need those words, when I say the words of my family have affected me is because every time theypersue me to choose the easiest path I always choose the hard one. Their words have all the opposite effect on me .I believe that to be successful is a decision I made ,that not one stops me to besuccessful not even my family stop me for where I’m going that the only person that can really stop me is myself and honestly I’m not planning to stop because that’s who I am .A person withdetermination of what she wants a person that is convinced that someday all the sacrifice will be worth it. A person that spent hours in the media center studying to have better grades a person who believe canovercome all the barriers of having a Mexican accent ,and not having my family’s support .All of this won’t affect me because overcome all of this is obstacles is what I want because that’s who I...