It Made Me Stronger
“You don 't have what it takes. You can’t do it. you 're not good enough.” is all I heard ever since I was little. No one ever believed I could do something. When I was little I struggle a lot to fit in because I was just different than everyone else. Maybe I wasn 't so different, but everyone made it seem like I was. One of the first memories I have are of someone whom I seen like a father pushing me away because I wasn 't his daughter. Right in that second I realize that I didn 't have a father like all of my cousins and friends. I cried, yes, but it made me stronger. A few years later I got home from school and my mom receives me with a big news. “We are leaving to the United States. You will finally meet your father. …show more content…
On my first day here my cousin took me to my dad’s work to meet him. “That 's your dad right there. Go ahead and give him a hug.” I froze thinking “why should I give a hug to this stranger? I don 't know him. I don 't feel nothing for him. He 's just a stranger.” I was debating whether to give him a hug or not. He came and hug me and I was just in a deep silence. I was scared. The next day I woke up crying when I saw myself alone in a different country, I was terrified, but the experience made me stronger.
My first day of school I was really terrorized because I didn 't knew no one and because I didn 't speak English. I was an easy target for some of the kids because I couldn 't defend myself because of the language barrier. At this point school was more of a survival thing to me. I had a translator that would help me with everything for almost two years. Kids made fun of me they bullied me because I didn’t speak English, but that didn’t stop me from getting my learning.
“She so stupid, she will never learn English,” they …show more content…
Then came middle school. Middle school was hard, but i made it through. I attended a program named Star Academy. My family thought that it was a bad idea because in their minds I was not good enough to make it throught. I tried hard and prayed to prove them people who didn’t believed in me wrong. I passed everything with only A’s. Then the day of the program graduation I invited my family to come and see me as I walked the stage with a recognition on my hands. I looked at them in the eyes thinking “ I made it I proved you’ll
“You don 't have what it takes. You can’t do it. you 're not good enough.” is all I heard ever since I was little. No one ever believed I could do something. When I was little I struggle a lot to fit in because I was just different than everyone else. Maybe I wasn 't so different, but everyone made it seem like I was. One of the first memories I have are of someone whom I seen like a father pushing me away because I wasn 't his daughter. Right in that second I realize that I didn 't have a father like all of my cousins and friends. I cried, yes, but it made me stronger. A few years later I got home from school and my mom receives me with a big news. “We are leaving to the United States. You will finally meet your father. …show more content…
On my first day here my cousin took me to my dad’s work to meet him. “That 's your dad right there. Go ahead and give him a hug.” I froze thinking “why should I give a hug to this stranger? I don 't know him. I don 't feel nothing for him. He 's just a stranger.” I was debating whether to give him a hug or not. He came and hug me and I was just in a deep silence. I was scared. The next day I woke up crying when I saw myself alone in a different country, I was terrified, but the experience made me stronger.
My first day of school I was really terrorized because I didn 't knew no one and because I didn 't speak English. I was an easy target for some of the kids because I couldn 't defend myself because of the language barrier. At this point school was more of a survival thing to me. I had a translator that would help me with everything for almost two years. Kids made fun of me they bullied me because I didn’t speak English, but that didn’t stop me from getting my learning.
“She so stupid, she will never learn English,” they …show more content…
Then came middle school. Middle school was hard, but i made it through. I attended a program named Star Academy. My family thought that it was a bad idea because in their minds I was not good enough to make it throught. I tried hard and prayed to prove them people who didn’t believed in me wrong. I passed everything with only A’s. Then the day of the program graduation I invited my family to come and see me as I walked the stage with a recognition on my hands. I looked at them in the eyes thinking “ I made it I proved you’ll