Personal Narrative: My Future In Venezuela

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Hi, I am Michelle Chacon. I am from Venezuela, I come to United State because I want to learn English for finding new opportunities in my future. I arrived on August 14, 2013. I only was 17-year-old, and I come with my cousin with the same age than me. I don't have family that lived in U.S, so I arrived to live with one friend and her mother. All my family stayed in Venezuela. While I was here, My country turned in a very bad situation, and I don't had allowed to come back for visited. I want to come back to studied architecture in Venezuela which it is my major, but I prefer stayed here and trying to complete my career. The situation in my country was worst, and it is practically impossible that my parents can keep paying for my studies because

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