The hardships I encountered a couple of years ago had to do with my mother’s failing mental health. She and my stepfather started arguing more frequently in my freshman year of high school. In the middle of my summer vacation, she had kicked him out of the house and that’s when she had a nervous breakdown. The beginning of my sophomore year, the house I was living in was about to be foreclosed. My mother was still shut in and I was taking care of my siblings and doing housework. Doing these things and struggling with my school work it was hard to go out and pursue my goal. My mother moved us to Arizona in the middle of the first semester of my sophomore year. In Arizona we became homeless and my mother started to hit me and blame things on
