The first time I went to Walmart it was an eye opening experience. People there are not as loud as in my country. Having just moved to the U.S, the only thing I desired was to fit in. When my mother shouted “MICHELLE!” in the middle of Walmart. I wanted to die.
Growing up in a very close Mexican family is loud. What that means is that I grew up going to family reunions at least once a week. Those reunions involve a lot of shouting for various reasons. One is that there was music all the time so shouting was the only way to get people to hear you and secondly half of my family is deaf, not completely deaf, but they need a hearing aid. If I wanted to talk to my grandpa, the only way of doing so was shouting. Of course, my family is louder than …show more content…
All my life teachers and friends have criticized me for being too loud, I get especially loud when I am excited or too happy about something. After years of practice, I had finally managed to get somewhat a normal tone of voice but is hard to change something when you have been raised doing it. There were still times when my tone of voice is not ideal. Being different is nothing strange to me, but I was something I was always painfully aware of. I was the loud kid in the class but when I moved out of state I was the loud kid with a weird accent. The state where I am from is very distinctive for its unique accent and then I moved to two states where accents are different. My accent is a combination of the three, so my accent never belonged anywhere and it was something that made me stand out even more.
In 2012, my mom got a call to come and work in Houston. So we moved to the U.S when I was a 14-year-old still insecure about being loud and having a weird accent, being in America kind of made everything worst. My accent is more provident in English and if I was loud in Mexican standards I am extremely loud in the US. Of course, I had to deal with my insecurities in between dealing with being in a new country, having a new
Growing up in a very close Mexican family is loud. What that means is that I grew up going to family reunions at least once a week. Those reunions involve a lot of shouting for various reasons. One is that there was music all the time so shouting was the only way to get people to hear you and secondly half of my family is deaf, not completely deaf, but they need a hearing aid. If I wanted to talk to my grandpa, the only way of doing so was shouting. Of course, my family is louder than …show more content…
All my life teachers and friends have criticized me for being too loud, I get especially loud when I am excited or too happy about something. After years of practice, I had finally managed to get somewhat a normal tone of voice but is hard to change something when you have been raised doing it. There were still times when my tone of voice is not ideal. Being different is nothing strange to me, but I was something I was always painfully aware of. I was the loud kid in the class but when I moved out of state I was the loud kid with a weird accent. The state where I am from is very distinctive for its unique accent and then I moved to two states where accents are different. My accent is a combination of the three, so my accent never belonged anywhere and it was something that made me stand out even more.
In 2012, my mom got a call to come and work in Houston. So we moved to the U.S when I was a 14-year-old still insecure about being loud and having a weird accent, being in America kind of made everything worst. My accent is more provident in English and if I was loud in Mexican standards I am extremely loud in the US. Of course, I had to deal with my insecurities in between dealing with being in a new country, having a new