can remember, I knew my destiny was coming to the United States sooner or later. In my beloved Colombia, I thought it would never happen, however, at the age 10, this girl had to fulfill her destiny. My transition and departure of my homeland was a mixture of heartbreak and joy. I was born in Medellin, Colombia in 1984, in a loving and unconventional family. After my mother, Gloria, was discharged from the hospital, we went to live with my grandparents, Alicia and Arturo, and my uncles, Luis Carlos
Saudi Arabia when my family came to United State. I recognized that year was very difficult because I thought my parents showed favoritism to me. They wanted to took all my sisters and my brother to study in United State, but they did not want me to come with them since I had faced a problem, which if I was studied in United State, I would be in ninth grade and that would make me late two years of graduation. However, in Saudi Arabia I was in my last year of high school. As a result, my parents decided
My Life, My Story, My Future Do you know the struggles and how immigrants feel about leaving their whole life behind in their native country? Well, I should know, since I am an immigrant who has migrated from The Dominican Republic to the United States. A lot of people do not know how difficult it is for people to leave their countries, it has been five years since I came to the United States. The situation was very hard for my family and I. Since I was 2 years old, I have lived with my father
My life was split between two distinct cultures during my childhood and adolescence. My family immigrated to the United States in the early eighties and moved back to Syria two years after I was born. I completed first and second grade in Syrian public schools before immigrating to the U.S. in 2001. Here, I was placed in English second language classes, which I completed in 9 months. I then continued my fourth grade education in regular classrooms. These two years exposed me to people of various
When I was five years old however, everything changed. My father left Guatemala to come to the United States and plan for the rest of his family to also move to the States in the correct way. He would work three jobs for the next six years to get enough money and prove that he would be a good provider for his family and even himself. This meant that we would have to be apart for six years, one month, and ten days. Meanwhile back in Guatemala, my mother took the role of both parents. She worked not
This story is about my mom when she immigrated to Canada and so, this essay is from her point of view. The one choice that changed my life forever was that our family emigrated from Hong Kong to Canada in 1974. I was only seven years old when my family came to Canada for a job offer but mainly it was for a better life. I had to leave behind many loving family members in Hong Kong. We also left behind our old lives, our home, and our friends. Our journey began when we hopped on a JAL (Japan airlines)
In 2010, my family moved to Derby, Kansas, a quaint town outside of McConnell Air Force Base. My stepdad was transferred there, and with only a few years left until his enlistment was up, we started to think we were going to be in Derby forever. However, a year later, the United States Air Force had honorably discharged him, and with a job lined up in Roanoke, Virginia, we began making plans to move again. The start date for my stepdad’s new job was two days after my baby brother was born, so he
Chapters in my Life The day I enlisted in the United States Army is the day my life changed and everything else around me, it is who I am today. Before then, I grew up in a family of five, four boys and one girl. Struggling day by day just to get around, my mother at that time was the only one working and my father was politician man and working for the Mayor his right hand man for about four years. Until the new election came and that’s when my father got released from his job. With my mother the
Ever since I can remember I have admired the way Mother Nature conducts herself in that monumental struggle called life. At the very moment in which the spark of life ignites everything has an even chance to make it, or fail. And so it was with the United States Marine Corps in what proved to be a long hot summer for South Carolina, in the year 1966 Anno Domini. Just as Mother Nature lets the weak and infirm fall by the wayside so did that great bastion of the US Marine Corps, our appointed Drill
Social Life in the USA and Oman The social life is different from one country to another, but also there are some commonalities and some similarities. Many people think that understanding of the social life is not very important, but in fact, the social life is an important part of this life we should understand it in the different countries. The United States and Oman each country has some differences and some similarities in social life and it is obvious in people, families, lifestyle and social