Flames engulfed the house, windows broke, smoke exhaled. My mother received a call that her house was burning down. She stopped what she was doing, worried her kids were inside the house. She frantically dashed home. She arrived crying and screaming that her kids could be inside the house. Firefighters held her back from running inside.
I was only 8 years old when I realized that my family and I had officially became homeless and had nowhere to go. At that age I was totally innocent until I witnessed seeing my mother struggle to get what we had left. She had to find a place for her and her 5 kids to lay their heads at night. We first stayed for 3 nights and 4 days at Best Western Motel until my mother got a hold of a shelter. Sleepless …show more content…
Which is where I adapted a strong love for literature, I was always so interested in the stories my teacher read to the class. I felt like reading always kept my mind off my darkness. I took reading to a whole other level, I even won awards and free tickets to see High school musical on ice. The awards was just a bonus, I really felt like reading kept my emotions tamed.
As time passed it was difficult to find apartments in safe areas so my mom began working full-time and I started seeing her less and less. It was basically my older siblings and I caring for each other until mom got home so we all could sleep in peace at night. This became the daily routine for about 8 months until my mother finally found a comfortable apartment for all of us.
Going through this experience not only made me stronger but it also made me value education more. I made a promise to myself that I would continue to go to school and stick through those long nights of mountains of homework and stress. My goal is to get a degree in business and fashion design. In addition,I want to have people in poor/low income communities model my clothing. I’m interested in guiding the less fortunate towards a positive lifestyle and bright future. I want people of shapes, sizes, and gender modeling my clothing and give them a chance to prove that there’s more to them then having label of just living under low
I was only 8 years old when I realized that my family and I had officially became homeless and had nowhere to go. At that age I was totally innocent until I witnessed seeing my mother struggle to get what we had left. She had to find a place for her and her 5 kids to lay their heads at night. We first stayed for 3 nights and 4 days at Best Western Motel until my mother got a hold of a shelter. Sleepless …show more content…
Which is where I adapted a strong love for literature, I was always so interested in the stories my teacher read to the class. I felt like reading always kept my mind off my darkness. I took reading to a whole other level, I even won awards and free tickets to see High school musical on ice. The awards was just a bonus, I really felt like reading kept my emotions tamed.
As time passed it was difficult to find apartments in safe areas so my mom began working full-time and I started seeing her less and less. It was basically my older siblings and I caring for each other until mom got home so we all could sleep in peace at night. This became the daily routine for about 8 months until my mother finally found a comfortable apartment for all of us.
Going through this experience not only made me stronger but it also made me value education more. I made a promise to myself that I would continue to go to school and stick through those long nights of mountains of homework and stress. My goal is to get a degree in business and fashion design. In addition,I want to have people in poor/low income communities model my clothing. I’m interested in guiding the less fortunate towards a positive lifestyle and bright future. I want people of shapes, sizes, and gender modeling my clothing and give them a chance to prove that there’s more to them then having label of just living under low