Personal Narrative: My Visit To The Dominican Republic

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I was born May 11 1966 in the Dominican Republic. I came to the United States in 1991. I arrived in Kennedy airport New York City, on March 19, 1991. The first place I visited was Metropolitan hospital, because my mother was sick, she had gallbladder surgery. After the surgery her blood pressure went up then she was in coma. My sisters and my brother were scare, they were children between 15 and 7 years old. I remembered their faces sad and happy at the same time; happy, because we were together again and sad because they were scare that something bad happen to my mother, but thank God, my mother got better and everything came normally. I finished my primary and high school education in Dominican Republic. I was in college in the Dominican Republic. I assisted in …show more content…
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