Personal Narrative: My Interview With A Female From El Salvador

I am a U.S. born citizen. My parents moved to the United States in 1984 without knowing anything about this country. Looking for a fresh start and new opportunities, my parents settled in Houston. With hardly knowing any English, my parents knew this was the place to make dreams become a reality. Luckily, I had older siblings to look up to whenever I needed help. Like Lahiri, I was trapped in between two different cultures while I was growing up. At home, I only spoke Spanish, but in school it was English. My habits and customs were different than others. Life as an immigrant’s offspring can be very difficult. As I grew older, I allowed myself to open my eyes and see the beauty of being an American from Hispanic descent.

Amy Tan and Junot Diaz on their stories they talked about they don’t speak their languages. Both of them find it difficult to speak different languages like Junot Diaz he went Santo Domingo for a vacation with his wife and it’s been twenty years that he has been over and people over there looking at him cause he doesn’t look Dominican and he barely speaks Spanish. For Amy tan she talked about how her mother was a stockbroker in New York and the people she work with doesn’t understand her English and she is Chinese. People this world will look at different cause of your Ethnicity and if you don’t speak their language they will treat wrong.

Growing up with two immigrant parents, me and my siblings were and still are their go to source when needing help translating something or talking to someone in the store or on the phone. Like the author Amy Tan, when my mother has a question about why her phone bill was higher than usual or needing help with a product at a store, we are her go to source. Although my parents spoke english fluently, their thick accents made it hard for people to understand them. They would not be taken as seriously when speaking with others as if their accents made them sound as if they were less educated not knowing they spoke over three languages.

My wife was born in Tijuana, Mexico and moved to the United States when she was three months old. Her family moved to Los Angeles. She lived with both parents, two sisters and two brothers. Her father had a high school education and her mother attended a university. My parent s both attended four year universities. She attended preschool like myself and

A narrative analysis was made from a small sample group of 20 immigrant women. Interviews were conducted in both English and Spanish. The average duration of interviews was about 1-2 hours. As part of the study, demographic data was gathered along with an acculturation scale. An average scale of 2.99 was determined whether a participant is of high or low acculturation status. Twelve questions pertaining to each participant’s choice of language within social interactions at

Would you say that life has any sense? Or Is there an answer for everything in life? Three years ago I was completely messed up about this. Gustavo Adolfo Parra Chassaigne that’s how my parents called me and I was born in Maracay a little city next to Venezuela’s capital, Caracas. I used to be the first student of all my high school, also one of the first in tennis of my state and everybody said that my family was “perfect”. So, What did happen to me?

She is now 18 and decided to come and live here with the intention of getting a job and going to college. This is not a simple task because she does not know English well and she has to get her GED even though she finished high school in Mexico. With no car, job, or permanent home, she struggles to find the solutions to all of her problems. She has applied at Walmart, Casa Ole, and McDonald's and has not heard from them yet. Even if she gets hired, she can not go to college until she raises enough to provide for herself. With this in mind, her dream of becoming a teacher is far and she will not get there anytime soon with the salary that she will be making at these places. She will suffer greatly and it will take her a while until she can be classified on a different scaled instead of “under the radar.” Hard work and determination will be her best friends for a long

I am not an immigrant. I have been living in this country ever since I was a newborn infant. My brother, sister, and I are all first generation citizens trying to make our parents proud. Both of my parents were born in Mexico, and at an early age left to the United States. They are now living happily in the U.S as citizens. Growing up I only spoke one language, Spanish. Being Mexican this was the only way I could communicate up until kindergarten. Although it was such a long time ago, I remember how hard it was for me to adjust into a new culture. I know I had a strong accent, and I was sometimes ashamed of it. On occasion I remember accidentally speaking Spanish to my classmates. “Did you finish your homework?" “Si, lo compl-”. “I mean, yeah, all done.” I often got these confused looks on their face whenever this happened. The next year in first grade I became accustomed to English. I no longer spoke Spanish to my parents. When the realization that I could no longer speak Spanish hit my parents, they were shocked. Personally I was also very disappointed that I lost a big part of my culture.

My grandfather came to America from Portugal when he was 30 years old. Beside him stood my grandmother and their three year old son. Moving to a new country across the world and learning their language is, in my opinion, the most difficult thing a family could possibly do. English is the undeclared national language of America, and unfortunately my grandfather never learned to speak it fluently.

A topic that’s very controversial to me is poverty, seeing it first hand in my home country really changed the outlook I have on my life. It shaped my dreams into achieving more for myself, doing something outstanding. It has inspired me into pursuing a tougher career choice to be able to assist all my needs in the future.

As a young teenage girl, I heard the voice in my head telling me it was time to step up and help make a difference. As a teen, I discovered that women all over the world were being delegated to that of second class citizens. In many countries, men are the leaders of societies where women are often seen only as care providers and in many countries, inconsequential.

A woman tells about her family and friends' daring escape from Cuba. Their desire to escape was out of growing discontent over the worsening political and economic situation in Cuba. Her husband, a pilot, was an important part in their escape. Could he save his family from Castro’s island prison?

Last week I had the opportunity to speak with a girl who I worked with a couple times last summer. She is from Tajikistan, which is located in Central Asia. She is identified as Persian and speaks Russian. She left her country and came to the U.S on a work visa five years ago. Her story is very moving and deeply touches my heart.

Immigrants relocate to North America for a variety of reasons, however many parents relocate for a better lifestyle and to provide their children with a better education. On the other hand, parents face many challenges after relocating to North America. Language barriers and the lack of education sometimes require families to live in poverty after moving to North America. According to Arens, Clevengers & Haynes (2004), immigrants face many obstacles such as living in poverty and difficulty finding work. Some immigrants may not speak English which hinders them from finding employment or finding housing to support their families. Parents may lack education which can be difficult for them to find a sufficient salary to provide the families with their basic needs.

Today I bring you guys 30 little facts about me. I have been received a lot emails of you with personal question, so I decide to put some facts about my life so you can get to know me a bit more