Personal Narrative: My Interview With Delia Lomeli

where she was already curious. Her life was going to be everything but ordinary. She was born

got used to being hungry, she was used to being forced to do hard work, and

Seafood was the main thing that people ate in Micronesia. They didn’t have many food resources. They would also use bananas, coconuts, and flour to make certain foods. For example, she would make banana pancakes with all them ingredients. It was definitely different when she moved to America because they had way more food resources and a variety of food selections to choose

Being an immigrant of another country in a new country can change someone drastically.How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, a novel by Julia Alvarez, about how 4 sisters started their lives in The Dominican Republic and then had to the move to the United States and adjust. Yolanda moved from the Dominican Republic to the United States at a young age and it changed how she saw herself and how she defined herself. Yolanda being a Dominican Immigrant changed her name, made her have an early loss of innocence, and eventually made her lose control of herself.

She moved to San Francisco when she was eighteen. It was very hard for her to hold down a stable job.

At the age of only 12-13 her father was kidnapped from the island of Ambrym, in 1883, and brought to Australia to work as an unpaid labourer in the Queensland cane fields. Could any of you imagine that? Waking up one day not knowing where your family was?

Furthermore, she had to set big changes in her life for her children and herself. She got a job offer from Langley and worked there to get more money, because she really needed it. So, she moved to Newport News, because her workplace was far from her home. She then also had to leave her family behind of course. Before moving away from her family, she also did not see her husband a lot because of his job, which made it less often for them to see each other.

After a year living here, she realized the “America Dream” would not come true, if she does not go to the school and get a career. So she did it!. she started taking two classes at night, then three. After almost 6 years she finally graduated with a degree in Hospitality Management. Then she starts working as a banquet's supervisor at the hotel Holiday Inn in Stamford, Ct. After a little while, she was promoted to banquet manager. Mery made a tremendous effort doing all this, but at the end she felt that it was worth it. Now she has a better life than before, and she can give her family the stability that they need. She said that immigrating with her family was not easy, because she had more responsibilities than others, but it did not stop her and they were the reason that pushed to achieve her dream.

Thus, furthering her Americanization and the possibility for

Physically- Due to the difficulty she found adjusting to the new school, she began to eat less and less, started making herself sick and began to suffer from panic attacks. These things didn’t help the stress of changing schools because she felt ill and weak and couldn’t function while trying to complete simple tasks.

She lived with her aunt and uncle in Port-au-Prince for eight years, after her parents moved to the United States.

doing from her country and how she hasn't completely gotten used to the American culture. In this story

It was between 1969 and 1970 her parents, Marie and George, decided their relationship was no longer working due to “unreconcilable differences” and got a divorce. She said that at the time the idea of divorce was becoming familiar and there was not much of a stigmatism. She said it was mainly her mother that wanted the divorce because she wanted more excitement in her life. She explained that her father worked a lot and when he did have free time he wanted to go hunting and fishing, while her mother wanted to go out and go dancing. Her father ended up buying a trailer and moving to Pittsburg California, which was only about 15 minutes away from where they lived. When she thinks back to when her parents split up, she expresses how “lost” she felt and how “unexpected” it was.

Not only she is feeling abandoned by this, but going to live with a total stranger, she hasn’t seen since she was a child. “New Mexico is worlds away from California. And what am I going to do for two whole months with someone I haven’t seen since I was six? That was half my life ago. She’s a stranger!’ I felt a sudden urge to bolt for the front door and run”, the author states in paragraph 24. This dialogue emphasizes the tension building between the narrator and her mom. They clearly have conflicting views about what is best. Her mom feels she’ll gain new experiences and get a better perspective on life by living at her grandmother’s place in New Mexico, while the narrator feels abandoned, as if her mom is leaving her with some alien to chase her own dreams (her research). In fact when her mother says this would be a great opportunity, the narrator argues, “Opportunity? For me? Or for you?” quoted in paragraph 34, implying she thinks her mother is selfish and is thinking more about her own absorption and opportunities than her daughter’s well-being. The tension culminates has a meltdown over her mother’s decision, “I stormed off to my room and threw myself onto my bed. I ached inside. Like the feeling you get watching a lost balloon float far into the sky,

An American who had lived with her family in Germany as a child, Westerly had a longstanding