Personal Narrative: Moving To The US

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I was born in Miami, FL but my parents are from Venezuela, and I was raised in Canada and in the Bronx. Being raised in a completely different environment than I do now has taught me a lot and I’ve grown so much because of it. I had to quickly adapt to a different setting that I was not used to or ever experienced before. Coming to the United States at the age of eight years old was quite a difficult transition because I did not know any English and the culture and environment is different. At the time I did not understand why I had to move to the U.S. but as I older I realized that all my parents wanted for me and my brothers, was to have the education and life they always dreamed of having. The struggles that my parents had to go through

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