Personal Narrative: My Great-Grandmother

The year was 1938; fleeing from the Italian fascist Mussolini’s’ encroachment of Greece my great-grandfather and great-grandmother came to the United States settling in a small city of Hialeah which resided just outside the city of Miami, FL. In January 1, 1940 my grandmother (Linda) was born at Jackson Memorial Hospital and soon after my great-grandfather left to find his riches in the north and left his family in Hialeah. So my great-grandmother sold what she owned (her body) to the military personal that were stationed at Homestead AFB. By 1950 my grandmother had eight half siblings, all living in a 3 bedroom house. My great-grandmother had a rule that she imposed onto her children, and that rule was when you turn 18 you have 2-weeks to find a job and get out of the house. She was very serious about this, and would take her children belonging and place them outside the house if they …show more content…
I basically just slid under the radar in school just going from one grade to another. It wasn’t that I hated school or didn’t understand the material; to me school was a waste of time because I viewed school never having the ability to take me anywhere. It wasn’t until the 7th and 8th grade that I started focusing more on school, and it wasn’t from me that this focus came from it was from incarcerated individual who saw us kids as ignorant children, I still have his letter to me with the phrase that sparked my reinterest in education, the phrase is “how can you protect the neighborhood and outsmart the police if you can’t read or write”. So by the time I was in the 12th grade I turned my D’s and F’s into A’s and B’s, but I soon realized that college was something out of my grasp due to affordability and other beliefs I have about our education system so I joined the military instead at the age of