Personal Narrative: My Experience As A Concurrent Enrollment Student

During the spring semester of my tenth-grade year, I enrolled at Canada College as a concurrent enrollment student. During my time at Canada, I developed key communication skills that assisted me in creating close and deep ties with my community. Currently, I am the co-founder and treasurer of the Civil Liberties Club at Canada. It was never a part of my plan to develop or run a club like this, especially as a concurrent enrollment student, but now I cannot think about living without this club. I have helped to create a platform for my peers and I to engage in dialogue regarding pressing issues that have been, oftentimes, disregarded. Throughout my participation, I have not only become more informed myself, but I also helped to inform others. We held community events in which we touched upon many sensitive …show more content…
I have also voiced my thoughts and experiences as a Latina woman living in the bay area where many of my community members feel oppressed. I like many of my peers know what it is like to feel underrepresented and have the constant feel of uncertainty for the future. I have had difficulty being able to ensure the possibility of me attending a 4 -year university because of my family's financial uncertainties. I am a first generation American and first generation college student and, like so many others in my community, my first language was Spanish. My father was an alcoholic and was addicted to cocaine for which he was incarcerated frequently. He was in the drug trade and attempted to smuggle drugs across the border of Mexico to America many times which made him very absent in the first years of my life. He was abusive and was later deported because of reoccurring child and spousal abuse. I believe that this has made me want to excel in my academics and in progress for my community. This has strongly affected my performance in school and the want to