Ana Diaz: My Best Friend's Grandmother

Ana Diaz Many times we believed we know everything about a person, until we begin to ask questions which are really deep and personal, then we discover that we only knew the tip of the iceberg. I interview Ana Diaz or as we all know her “Dona Rosa”. Ana is my best friend’s grandmother and a very lovely lady. She was born and raised in San Juan a province in the south of the Dominican Republic. Ana told me many things about her life that I could have never imagined; things about her childhood, teen years, and adulthood that I never tough such a lovely and kind lady had gone through. Ana Diaz was the youngest of four children. She had a twin, but the twin sister died seven days after they were born. Ana was the only child of her father since her mother had 3 children of an earlier marriage. When she was a little …show more content…
Since her dad died things started to change around the house and her mother gave her away. She went to live with an old lady called Teresa, who a year later gave her to Altagracia. When she went to live with Altagracia she became her adoptive daughter not a servant. She used to help in the family bodega and help around the house doing the dishes and helping to cook. She never went to school, instead a neighbor used to teach her some math, therefore she doesn’t know how to read or write. The only thing that she learned to write was her first and last name. Ana told me her experiences in the first house she lived and how she was treated badly. When living with Teresa, Ana was treated as a servant. Her duties mostly consist of doing shores around the house, mainly mapping and swiping the floors. Ana had a special corner in the house, where she used to sit and think about her father and into what extend her life had been different if we had been alive. The thought of running away cross through her mind many times due to the level of depression she was suffering although she was a seven years old little