Grow up in poverty is rough. I often had no transportation, so I had to depend on the bus or my two feet to get me everywhere. I remember hand washing my socks and underwear and our lights being cut off. The word poverty is one I can easily explain to you without the dictionary definition and will through my story of being poor.
Catching the bus to Middle School, I had to wait an hour for the bus to arrive, so I could get home. Some days, I would get rained on, burn up in the sun, or freeze in the cold, but we had no car and couldn’t afford one, so I had to catch the bus or walk. One thing I remember was my mother and me having to sleep in and apartment with no working stove or carpet just a dusty floor. My bedroom was a chest of drawers …show more content…
Was watching my peer drive their car to school while I was walking there. Watch the middle class teens living a privileged life made me bitter the way they talk about their vacation to the beach in Florida, or some big city like New York or Seattle. All my summer where the same since we didn’t have any money to go anywhere. While in High School I remember we were moving down the street. which was about a 10 min walk, her boyfriend I had to move everything by hand, with no truck it took us three days to move everything walking with boxes in our hands back and forth I was sore for a week after that move, we had no money to pay some to use their …show more content…
There I made $7.25 an hour which is minimum wage but it was great money to me since I didn’t have any 75% of the time. I had to wake up at six am getting to school by eight am and leave school at 2:15pm for work which took 20 to 30 min to get there. I usually started work at three pm and my shift ended at eight pm. It was dangerous walking home, and pain full carry all my books, and my paycheck on Friday. After leaving home, I finally bought my first car three years after I started working and impala 2005 four door that I still drive today. I found money for college by joining the army since I didn’t have parents that would pay for it, I know that for me to go to college I was going to have to pay for its own my own, which I’m doing right now. I take pride in knowing that at 17 while other teens were at parties I was working and taking care of my self-buying my own food, clothes tooth paste deodorant
Catching the bus to Middle School, I had to wait an hour for the bus to arrive, so I could get home. Some days, I would get rained on, burn up in the sun, or freeze in the cold, but we had no car and couldn’t afford one, so I had to catch the bus or walk. One thing I remember was my mother and me having to sleep in and apartment with no working stove or carpet just a dusty floor. My bedroom was a chest of drawers …show more content…
Was watching my peer drive their car to school while I was walking there. Watch the middle class teens living a privileged life made me bitter the way they talk about their vacation to the beach in Florida, or some big city like New York or Seattle. All my summer where the same since we didn’t have any money to go anywhere. While in High School I remember we were moving down the street. which was about a 10 min walk, her boyfriend I had to move everything by hand, with no truck it took us three days to move everything walking with boxes in our hands back and forth I was sore for a week after that move, we had no money to pay some to use their …show more content…
There I made $7.25 an hour which is minimum wage but it was great money to me since I didn’t have any 75% of the time. I had to wake up at six am getting to school by eight am and leave school at 2:15pm for work which took 20 to 30 min to get there. I usually started work at three pm and my shift ended at eight pm. It was dangerous walking home, and pain full carry all my books, and my paycheck on Friday. After leaving home, I finally bought my first car three years after I started working and impala 2005 four door that I still drive today. I found money for college by joining the army since I didn’t have parents that would pay for it, I know that for me to go to college I was going to have to pay for its own my own, which I’m doing right now. I take pride in knowing that at 17 while other teens were at parties I was working and taking care of my self-buying my own food, clothes tooth paste deodorant