Embracing My Quinceanera

Embracing your culture can show you things that you never knew about yourself or your culture. The moment that I embrace my culture was when I had my quinceanera. Having my quinceanera taught me things about myself and about my culture that I never knew about. A quinceanera is when a Chicana / Latina teenager turns 15 and it is a passage to womanhood. She has a big party to celebrate her and her passage of becoming a woman called a quinceanera. For me celebrating and having my quinceanera was something big for me because I had never celebrated something of my culture and I was very excited for that. Celebrating a quinceanera is a very special thing for a girl but I never understood why but after I had one and was preparing for it I finally …show more content…
Two of my friends where awake first than I did and I thought that was so funny. We talked for about 10 minutes and I had to go. When I got home I got right onto the chair for my hair and makeup. As I was sat down I saw more and more people going into my house to get ready with me. I had 30 people in the limo with me. I felt like a super star while people are looking at me and taking pictures of me, also with me. When I got to the party I wasn’t the first one there and that surprised me a lot because I thought there was going to be people around 5 but my family was already there. I thought that was amazing of them. For the rest of the day I was having fun, dancing, and eating with all the people that I love. I felt special and amazing. I didn’t felt depressed but I didn’t notice. I danced with my dad and we called that “El Vaile con el papa” and not only did my dad dance with me but also my uncle’s and my grandpa. I felt very emotional while dancing with my grandpa. At 1:00am there was still people at the party and it wasn’t the day of no more. I felt exhausted but also happy for the first time in a few months but I didn’t notice it in till the next