For the family interview, I decided to interview my mother who I find to be the most important key member of my family. I have spent the most time with her throughout my life and feel the most comfortable around her, so she was the best person to interview. While I was born here in the United States, my mom was born and raised in El Salvador so majority of her answers to the questions I asked had to do with her life there. Her first memory was of her first day of kindergarten, when she was around four years old. She remembers feeling small and just watching all the other students play as she kept to herself. School is a very important theme that arose during the interview. Her first day of kindergarten marked the beginning of a journey of
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My family system changed as I was growing up, since I spent a large portion of my childhood as the only child at home. When I first met my brothers in 2003 I was already eight years old while they were eighteen and twenty-one. I was not an only child anymore and had to get used to it since my brothers were not living with me. It was not hard to get accustomed to them living with me, I was still young and was excited to now have older brothers I could play with. However, my parents had a tenant living in a spare room we had who helped pay for the rent. The tenant had to leave in order to provide space for my brothers, and my parents now had to find a way to reach the equilibrium they had when someone was helping with the rent. The equilibrium was eventually reached once my brothers got accustomed to living in the United States and were able to find jobs. They helped pay the rent and my mom was as happy as ever now that she was with all her children. My brothers moved out afterwards when I was around sixteen, and once again the family system changed. My parents were once again left trying to reach a financial equilibrium and I was left without siblings at home. Financial equilibrium was not attained, since it was my two brothers helping to pay for the rent compared to just one cousin who is living with me
My family system changed as I was growing up, since I spent a large portion of my childhood as the only child at home. When I first met my brothers in 2003 I was already eight years old while they were eighteen and twenty-one. I was not an only child anymore and had to get used to it since my brothers were not living with me. It was not hard to get accustomed to them living with me, I was still young and was excited to now have older brothers I could play with. However, my parents had a tenant living in a spare room we had who helped pay for the rent. The tenant had to leave in order to provide space for my brothers, and my parents now had to find a way to reach the equilibrium they had when someone was helping with the rent. The equilibrium was eventually reached once my brothers got accustomed to living in the United States and were able to find jobs. They helped pay the rent and my mom was as happy as ever now that she was with all her children. My brothers moved out afterwards when I was around sixteen, and once again the family system changed. My parents were once again left trying to reach a financial equilibrium and I was left without siblings at home. Financial equilibrium was not attained, since it was my two brothers helping to pay for the rent compared to just one cousin who is living with me