Stevenson Essay
Ever since I was a little girl living in Ecuador, the one big main event that I knew WAS going to happen in my life was my Quinceanera. That 's all my family members (mostly my aunts) talked about. They were already planning on what food was going to be served, what type of music they were going to play, who was going to be invited, everything! I was only five years old! I was so young I had no idea how much time and effort went into throwing a Quinceanera. Up until my Quinceanera, my family and I attended other Quinceaneras. They were all very extravagant and fancy. The first thing my parents always asked the family throwing the party was “how much did you pay for all of this?”, the answer always shocked my parents. Since I was little they always told me that we …show more content…
Everyone loved giving me whatever I wanted. How I wish things were like that now that I’m seventeen years old! Once I reached middle school everything changed! I got a new little sister and brother, so my step-dad wasn’t spoiling me as much. Everyone loves babies so, of course, my aunts, uncles, and older cousins stopped spoiling me and started spoiling my brother and sister. What child wouldn’t be upset about this? Because I definitely was! Once I started middle school everything changed. We moved into a new house, we got a new car, and we stopped going on family vacations. I would say that middle school were some of the hardest years of my life. Most people would think high school would be the hardest but not for me. In middle school I was figuring who I was, what I liked, what type of people I wanted to make friends with, it was all so new to me. A Hispanic girl who was still struggling with learning how to speak English, and trying to fit in in middle school is definitely not a good