Growing up with being the baby in the family and being the only girl it makes it hard for me to mess up. As I was growing up I always looked up to my brothers wanting to be like them to accomplish the same things they did as they were growing up. I was raised by two parents that worked the butt off to get us to where we are now. They have always push us to do new thing, to never give up and to give school our all never to quit on it. I always wanted to have a sister so she could have looked up to me but I am happy to have such great brothers to push me.
My mother went to UCLA for one semester then dropped out move with my father to Texas. My father never finished 7th grade his parents took him out to start working in the fields. My oldest brother Manuel who is 23, went to Oklahoma university for one year but then realized it was to much money and dropped out. Andrew being the middle child is 21 he couldn't apply to colleges because his senior year we moved to California and they would charge him to apply to colleges so he decided to go to the marines. Manuel saw that without school he wasn't going to do nothing with his life so he signed up to the navy. Now this all happen when I was in high school my brother are always telling me that since they couldn't finish college that I had to be the first one to actually finish it and become something in my life. When I was in 5th grade I had to take tests to see if I was dyslexic, my mom noticed that I was writing backwards and that my reading wasn't very good for my grade. After they told me that I was I started to think I was never going to finish school I felt hopeless with my brother be my side I knew that I could do it. I would attended summer school every year until I moved to California the last 2 months of 7th grade. Once we moved to Lindsay I knew that my life had to change I had to start pushing myself I knew that high school was getting closer and I would have to be able to do it on my own. I knew my brothers would be there however I knew they may be moved to a different base and I would be left alone. When I enter high school I set myself goals to never give up, to push myself and to make my family proud of me. On days I feel like giving up I start to think my brothers have to give their lives to protect ours so I know that I can't take my for granted. Many people ask me what pushing me to keep going to keep a smile on my face, I say my brothers and my mom. I think my biggest obstacles that I have had to deal with is my dyslexia I have to practice my spelling and writing more than others but I know I can and that my family wants me to be what they could have never been. Having the people I have to motivate me to keep going I know I will make them proud and go to a great college.
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