Growing up I was always surrounded by my Spanish speaking family. My first language was Spanish and I was not introduced to the English language until I started preschool. All throughout elementary school I was placed in a speech class where I was taught the pronunciation of words. This helped me so much, but I always had a fear of being judged whenever I spoke in English. I had this fear because I saw how people judged my parents. This fear soon went away thanks to my eighth grade English teacher, Mr. Peterson. It was a regular English class and was full of disrespectful students who did not care about anything, but I did not let the other students behavior stop me from learning. Mr. Peterson saw the potential I had and on the last day of
