Denis Michalov Research Paper

I never expected to be sharing my real name with complete strangers, but my birth name is Denis Michalov. I was born in Novocheboksarsk, Russia, on September 28th 1998. I was adopted at the age of 2 by some pretty cool people named Stephen and Susan Souza. Since I was adopted at such a young age, I do not remember experiencing living in orphanages, traveling through Moscow, or seeing my birth parents. Susan and Stephen brought me back to America to a huge loving family. The environment that this family built for me seemed like the perfect life: a quaint cape-cod house with a yard, a friendly dog, and a white picket fence. Sue and Steve wanted the best for both myself and my sister, so we were both enrolled in private schools. I am not complaining about growing up in a private school at all, since some of my best friends have been my classmates since kindergarten. The lives of the classmates I had made me question my background. Attending a private middle school of all white rich Catholics made me feel out of the ordinary. Unlike everyone else, I was not born in America and my two parents were people who hadn't given birth to me. Through the years, many of these classmates that I grew up with accepted the fact that my background was a bit different. Rather, I became the new shiny …show more content…
These rich kids who have both of their parents, who are not struggling to make ends meet, who are not worried about the bills being paid, etcetera, took their lives for granted. Unlike them, I appreciate my life everyday, since it wasn’t my choice that I had to be split from my family. I just hope that my birth parents are not some kind of Russian royalty and I'm missing out on an