Personal Narrative: My Journey To Work And School

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Some of the challenges that I have no choice but to face at a very young age were to go to work and school. I want to go to college and get a degree in pre-law so I can be the best lawyer and help my parent get their own house so they don’t have to worry about anything when they are older. I’m very hard working and I will pull thought anything thing that comes my way. I go to work after school with my mother from 3:00 to 9:30 and I don’t get home till 10 and that’s the time I start with my homework. Some of my long term goals are to be the best lawyer in Los Angeles and have a beautiful family. I’m the smallest of 3 kids and that very hard because frequently my parent tell me why can’t I be like them. My sister is going to Cal State …show more content…
I want to be a lawyer and open an office in Lynwood because that’s that city that saw be growing up and being there with the goods and not the best time of my life. I will never forget the people that were to my parents and me. The city of Lynwood is a city of low income families and I will love to help them in any way that I can that being a lawyer with low cost for families with low income. I want to have a nice house and admirable cars. Buy my parents their dream house and get the best care of them because they took the best care of my 18 years of my life. My sibling and I need to pay them back for that. The law that I really want to master is in immigration.

One of the experiences that I will never forget is when my dad went to the hospital and almost died. The reasons that he went to the hospital was because he would drink a lot of beer and some vein of his esophagus popped and he would throw up blood. He almost ran out of blood and they rush him to the ER because he almost died. It was the mouth of February and the next mouth would be April and my first communion and my fifteen and I would hate it without my dad because my dad is my whole world. My family is not every close to us, but that day everyone was with

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