Personal Essay: My Cuban Experience

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Cuban American Sunny bright clear beaches with white soft sand, that is what comes to my head when I remember about Cuba Placentas, and when I think about Miami in the United States. I was born in Cuba but I move to Miami when I was 8 years old. I can’t tell you there has been some major changes in my life but I still keep my background. This experience for me has may me see how different is Cuba from America, yet at the same time I have seen similarities. I can say I have more experience in been American than a Cuban, but I can never forget where I came from. For me living in Cuba felt like a blink of an eye, because I was so small yet I still most call myself Cuban just for the fact that I was born there.
When I was living in Cuba I would eat a lot, all the time. I was actually very fat as a child. Many people find that weird when I say this because Cuba is a poor country, but while a lived in there I never complain about the poorness. My family knew how to
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I remember in Cuba I have some cooking toys and I also had some one or two dolls, but I would play so much with those few toys, and I and my friends would have the best time playing. I remember I did not had a ball and some of my friends since the parent did not had the money to buy a ball, he decide to make one, then I also help him and we made a great ball from old cloths and a some paper and sand. In my city most of the kids were always playing outside with whatever they might find. Then me as a kid in the US was different because I need it to stay inside playing, the good thing I had many toys to choose from. Another good entertaining system is any electronic toy, I didn’t had the chance to find on in Cuba, but I did had a lot in the United States. One of my favorite places I would go for entertaining in Cuba was the beach and I had a blast, and as in Cuba here in Miami I enjoy every time me and my family spend a day in the sunny

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