Certain aspects of my life I cannot change; I do not dwell on what life would be like under different circumstances, nor do I any longer wish to escape who I am. Through God 's grace, or perhaps merely by chance, my life has dramatically changed. Whatever the reason, I do not intend to waste my opportunity to rise up and make my mark in the world.
While my mother was pregnant with me, she, my father, and my older brother were living in Dallas, moving from apartment to apartment, month after month. I was born in Dallas, Texas, and grew up in and around a nearby town named Irving. As a little girl, I spent my days playing games with my older brother, helping my mother cook and clean, and waiting for my father to get home from work so we could …show more content…
When I was three years old, my mother explained to me and my brother that my father had left our family, though the idea didn 't sink in until long after. Over the next four years, our broken family continued to move into a variety of apartments, town-homes and houses as we struggled for financial stability.
One day, my mother received news that one of her brothers was coming to the United States from El Salvador. She had not seen any of her brothers since she left El Salvador at the age of four, so she was excited to be reunited with him. My mother bought a house around the time he arrived from El Salvador, and he, having no place to live, moved in with my family. From then on, this first chapter of my life would be filled with pain, confusion, suffering, and anger. Only two weeks after moving in, he sexually abused me. At the time, I did not understand what had occurred, and even today, I cannot fully …show more content…
These skills were enhanced as I got older, and I quickly became a hard working and determined student. Throughout middle school and high school, I participated in a variety of sports, performed well academically, became an adept cellist, volunteered in my community, and even discovered my passion for leadership in theater. Because I had become accustomed to silence due to my childhood oppression, the daunting task of mastering a second language, and the challenge of assimilating into American culture, when I finally opened up and expressed myself as a stage manager, I not only felt a weight lifted off my shoulders, I fell in love with leading. My goal is to one day manage my own business, dedicate my time and money to aiding organizations dedicated to saving children from abusive homes, so that they too can follow their
While my mother was pregnant with me, she, my father, and my older brother were living in Dallas, moving from apartment to apartment, month after month. I was born in Dallas, Texas, and grew up in and around a nearby town named Irving. As a little girl, I spent my days playing games with my older brother, helping my mother cook and clean, and waiting for my father to get home from work so we could …show more content…
When I was three years old, my mother explained to me and my brother that my father had left our family, though the idea didn 't sink in until long after. Over the next four years, our broken family continued to move into a variety of apartments, town-homes and houses as we struggled for financial stability.
One day, my mother received news that one of her brothers was coming to the United States from El Salvador. She had not seen any of her brothers since she left El Salvador at the age of four, so she was excited to be reunited with him. My mother bought a house around the time he arrived from El Salvador, and he, having no place to live, moved in with my family. From then on, this first chapter of my life would be filled with pain, confusion, suffering, and anger. Only two weeks after moving in, he sexually abused me. At the time, I did not understand what had occurred, and even today, I cannot fully …show more content…
These skills were enhanced as I got older, and I quickly became a hard working and determined student. Throughout middle school and high school, I participated in a variety of sports, performed well academically, became an adept cellist, volunteered in my community, and even discovered my passion for leadership in theater. Because I had become accustomed to silence due to my childhood oppression, the daunting task of mastering a second language, and the challenge of assimilating into American culture, when I finally opened up and expressed myself as a stage manager, I not only felt a weight lifted off my shoulders, I fell in love with leading. My goal is to one day manage my own business, dedicate my time and money to aiding organizations dedicated to saving children from abusive homes, so that they too can follow their