Personal Narrative: How I Learned And Affected My Life

The one time that I learned and impacted my life drastically was the first year that I moved to the U.S. I learned to talk and I learned to read. People still judge the way I spell, say, or pronounce, a certain word. It used to bother me how others could say “Karen can you say refrigerator” or another word that they knew I struggled to say. As I’ve gotten older I have realized that I was actually ahead of the class by being bilingual. I learned more than they did by the the end of my second grade year. I left second grade speaking some english and still fluent spanish.
In school I have learned not only the basics: math, english, reading, and social studies. But, I learned the culture of the United States. Now I know that sounds crazy but …show more content…
We would practice my pros and cons on the candy I would pick at the store. I would pick up a chocolate and on my other hand I would have Skittles. Then my grandma would ask; what 's your favorite. I would answer; chocolate. Then she would ask, why are you having to choose between two different candies when you know what your favorite is. Now I’m not comparing my friends to candy but I had the same mind set. Whats what I really wanted. Make my mom happy or be popular in school and let my grades drop to the bottom. Even with the mindset of an eighth grader I chose to keep my name in the A honor roll.
When I dropped my other “friends” I was very upset. I thought that being popular was the key to being cool. But as time went on the kids that I thought were just “average” became my best of friends. These are the kids that still to this day stick with me through thick and thin. We have cried together and laughed together but most importantly we are learning how to become young adults. We have gone through a lot but we have learned from each other that together we are stronger and that if we stay true to each other we will keep our friendship for a long ways to