“BEEP BEEP BEEP”. I raise my hand to shut off the annoyingly loud alarm clock. A few moments go by and I immediately jolt out of bed, almost tripping over my own two feet. July 25th, the day I get to head down to Texas for a month. As I head down my steps I can hear my dad and my Tio talking. I also can smell the eggs, bacon, lengua, and the refried beans being made for breakfast. After brushing my teeth, I grab a plate and pile on the food. As soon as I’m done eating I rush back upstairs to my room out of excitement and finish packing for the month. Next thing I know I’m hugging my family goodbye. I remember hugging my mother. She was wearing her favorite perfume. As I got into the Expedition, I look out the window I rolled down and see my
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Going through all the states was nothing new to me. I had seen everything dozens of times because I have gone down when I younger and for spring break. So, my cousin and I slept 85% of the time on the way down. The only time I woke up was to use the restroom at every rest-stop we went to. Because the trip down was so boring I had my headphones with me and plugged them into my phone and played my playlist full of r&b to k-pop. My cousin saw what I was listening to and recommended some other songs that I should listen to so I downloaded the songs and added them to my playlist, put it on shuffle and went back to sleep. Before I knew it, I’m in my Tio’s driveway in Little River-Academy, …show more content…
The night I got there was really fun. We had a cookout and put on some music…. But it was a mistake staying up. Now I don’t go to church, but for my Tia’s sake I just sucked it up and went for the one day. There was a seperate room upstairs where the teenagers would go. We all had to read a verse from the bible and introduce myself and I started to panic. They asked where i’m from and how old I was because I was new at the church. I replied in English and everyone started giggling. I felt my face get beat red and I sunk down in my seat. They asked if I knew how to speak spanish and I said only a little bit. After that we moved on to reading the bible verses. I guess I read mine a little too fast or something because everyone started to giggle again. This was most certainly not fun. After the church service was over I asked my cousins why everyone was giggling at me and they said because they never see mexicans that don’t or can’t speak spanish fully. That right there gave me a huge reality check. I thought that being discriminated back in Michigan was bad when it’s still bad down here even when I’m surrounded by my ‘own people’ as you could say it. I’m discriminated in Michigan because of the pigmentation in my skin, how I look, how I dress and even when I speak spanish. Now down here in Texas im getting teased because I don’t know enough spanish?! Now that’s
Going through all the states was nothing new to me. I had seen everything dozens of times because I have gone down when I younger and for spring break. So, my cousin and I slept 85% of the time on the way down. The only time I woke up was to use the restroom at every rest-stop we went to. Because the trip down was so boring I had my headphones with me and plugged them into my phone and played my playlist full of r&b to k-pop. My cousin saw what I was listening to and recommended some other songs that I should listen to so I downloaded the songs and added them to my playlist, put it on shuffle and went back to sleep. Before I knew it, I’m in my Tio’s driveway in Little River-Academy, …show more content…
The night I got there was really fun. We had a cookout and put on some music…. But it was a mistake staying up. Now I don’t go to church, but for my Tia’s sake I just sucked it up and went for the one day. There was a seperate room upstairs where the teenagers would go. We all had to read a verse from the bible and introduce myself and I started to panic. They asked where i’m from and how old I was because I was new at the church. I replied in English and everyone started giggling. I felt my face get beat red and I sunk down in my seat. They asked if I knew how to speak spanish and I said only a little bit. After that we moved on to reading the bible verses. I guess I read mine a little too fast or something because everyone started to giggle again. This was most certainly not fun. After the church service was over I asked my cousins why everyone was giggling at me and they said because they never see mexicans that don’t or can’t speak spanish fully. That right there gave me a huge reality check. I thought that being discriminated back in Michigan was bad when it’s still bad down here even when I’m surrounded by my ‘own people’ as you could say it. I’m discriminated in Michigan because of the pigmentation in my skin, how I look, how I dress and even when I speak spanish. Now down here in Texas im getting teased because I don’t know enough spanish?! Now that’s