Carlos Lleras Restrepo

A rigorous journey from Colombia to the Garden State Moving to a different place is exciting but for my grandma was the complete opposite. In 1979, at the age of 38 years old, my grandma, Ruby Arzayus, made the decision to move to the United States. Leaving her two little blessings back home, she made the decisions to move to the states because she wanted to give both of her daughters a better future. Growing up, I have been close to my grandma but I have never asked her about her voyage to the

Colombia Colombia, republic in South America, situated in the northwestern part of the continent, and bounded on the north by Panama and the Caribbean Sea, on the east by Venezuela and Brazil, on the south by Peru and Ecuador, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean. Colombia is the only country of South America with coasts on both the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. The total land area of the country is 1,141,748 sq km (440,831 sq mi). The capital and largest city is Bogotá. IILAND AND