Who Is My Grandfather: From Migration To California?

When my grandfather came to United States it was originally just to work and make some money to take back to his family, but that changed when he got married. Magdaleno Rubalcava, my grandfather, was born on a little ranch in Los Zapotes, Cuquío, Mexico. He was the youngest of over 10 children. Los Zapotes when my grandfather was born was just a bunch of ranches and till this day they aren’t as modernized as other parts of Mexico but they do have more houses and are using more modern technology. When I asked my grandparents for pictures of the house and ranch they were born in on their most recent trip to Mexico they said “They don’t exist anymore, they were torn down.” It’s shocking that my parents can go back to the houses they grew up in, they’ve shown me, but my grandparents can’t. Growing up on a ranch my grandfather didn’t get to attend school regularly and only attended school till third grade. The odds were stacked against him just because he didn’t get a good education but he made it …show more content…
I then asked “why Los Angeles?” They said that the community of Los Angeles was more like that of home, a similar culture, the Spanish language and my grandfather had already had family in California and the Los Angeles area. However, my grandmother was not happy when she moved. She had been so used to a more rural life, where you walked everywhere even if it took a long time to get there. She was used to the Spanish language 24/7 where as in the United States English was spoken and it took some time to adapt but she was able to. The one thing that bugged her the most was that she had to leave the life she knew and made and when she moved to the United States she had to start all over, along with the fact that she had to leave her whole family