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My Life Experience Essay

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I am no different, or any better than anyone else, however, my unique life experiences have provided me with a profound level of understanding and acceptance. While I believe that our life experiences do not determine, or define who we are as individuals, I do believe that these experiences and the teachings they hold, sculpt who we become and the ways in which we approach life and interact with others). It is such experiences that allow us to create a deeper connection and profound understanding to the various pieces of life and the lives of others that often go unseen. It is for this reason, I am pursuing an (education?) in the masters of social work program, so that I may couple my experience with education to further my understanding of others and the tools necessary to support them, creating change, and re-sculpting the pieces that have… My mother was a big proponent of helping and supporting others, spending four year in Honduras, as a peace corp volunteer where she not only gained exposure/ an understanding of poverty and culture, but met and married my father. While in Honduras, my mother who at the time was pregnant with me decided to move back to the Salt Lake City. While it’s hard to say, what would have happened if she would have stayed and gave birth to me in Honduras, this decision would come with unforeseen consequences, and blessings that will forever impact my life. Once in the United States, my mother worked at a local grocery store, and my father worked as a dishwasher in numerous restaurants in Salt Lake, while attending English classes at South High School. With my father being an immigrant for a violent third world country, I learned quickly at a young age the discrimination and stereotypes that we as a society place on others. However, I also learned (was taught)? the significance of accepting people for who they are. My father whose mother died when he was the age of two, was orphaned by his father, and left in the care of his four older brothers, impacted my father on numerous level. These pieces guided my father’s parenting and influence my mother’s parenting as well as the values within the home. While many of the values in our home stemmed from the Latino culture, majority of them

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