Personal Narrative: My Life In The City Of Houston

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With the coldness filling the air as I was born into the world on December 9th, 1998, in the city of Houston in Texas. Known for being the Bayou city, Houston is where I have spent the entirety of my life. As large as this town is I was raised and have only seen only one side of Houston, and although my vision of it was only limited I learned many things with the limited resources I had in my disposal. It was a little apartment almost barely any room for my family, it was small and I was only allowed to be inside so I didn’t learn much. Although my dream from back then is still the dream of now, to bring the people that are divided by class to be allowed to see the truth about the place that they live in. My family is rather small, well …show more content…
. . NHECHS wasn’t the best place to put me, but my parents often said go anywhere else and we won’t drop you off. Amazing parents huh? Yes it was an advanced magnet course, my parent always thought it was good to put me into that since they thought that it would be best for me. It wasn’t. My GPA was a 2.3 most of the time I was there, I was the weak student and I never understood what I was supposed to learn. So yes, stress built up again but this time, I couldn’t fight it away like I did in middle school. But that was the place I found out what I wanted to do, a chef. My best friend/boyfriend often didn’t eat so I would share my food that I cooked, I was often left with an empty plate. So that’s when I decided to make more than one plate, but they all disappeared before I was done. That’s when I made my choice, I’ll become a chef and after some work will open my own café. Blue Heart Café, it will be everywhere in Houston: from you TV, to your computer, to even the build board probably behind someone’s office. My café won’t be like get in and get out, no it will feel like home; almost like a homemade meal like mothers always used to make Of course I won’t work on it alone, my friends and my boyfriend all promised to help since they all want a place to hang out and they want to work for me, to see what we can actually

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