Grandparents Essay

but so many people have no idea where their past ancestors have originated from. I have done some reasearch on my migration story and have gotten the opportunity to learn some interesting things I did not know about my family. All of my great grandparents from my mother’s side of the family have originated from Germany. My grandma’s father’s name was Otto Nawrocki and he was a hard working military man who served in WW2. His wife was that of Erma Luis, a stay at home mom and mother of four. They…

before I could remember, I would always hear stories of my great-grandparents. I wondered where I came from and how my family came to be. My curiosity of what traits were passed on throughout generation; this was always an interest of mine. I wondered who I got my darker skin tone and my big eyes from. Little did I know, I come from a big, diverse family. I come from the Blankenship Family and the Kuglin Family. My great-grandparents on my father’s side were fascinating to me, however little…

The one time that I learned and impacted my life drastically was the first year that I moved to the U.S. I learned to talk and I learned to read. People still judge the way I spell, say, or pronounce, a certain word. It used to bother me how others could say “Karen can you say refrigerator” or another word that they knew I struggled to say. As I’ve gotten older I have realized that I was actually ahead of the class by being bilingual. I learned more than they did by the the end of my second…

maternal grandfather sadly passed away before I was born, neither he nor my grandmother, who passed while I was quite young, were particularly faithful and as a result my mother and her sisters developed into atheists. In contrast, both my paternal grandparents, who passed away several years ago, were both devout Catholics and they raised my father and his brothers to be the same until they each suffered a different crisis of faith. As I matured, I followed in my mother’s footsteps and became a…

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…

brown skin. My father calls me Tasha-washa for reasons he and I don’t understand. As a result of my name meaning “born on Christmas day,” it reminds me of Christmas time at my grandparents’ church. It always looks cheerful and joyful everywhere. There's a full house of family-friends, cousins, aunts, uncles, and grandparents with a Christmas tree in the midst of it all. Because of the capacity of people on Christmas, my grandmother, aunts, and older girls always cook huge meals for the…

The exhilarating vacation started with a spontaneous idea from my grandparents. My grandparents are in their sixties, have a kind personality, and are religious. It is quite rare for our gigantic Gjovik Family, consisting of thirty-one people, to go on a long, beautiful vacation together. Normally, a vacation would only be a couple nights in a hotel in Minnesota or nearby to Minnesota. However, my Grandpa and Grandma Gjovik were celebrating fifty well spent years together in marriage, along…

I am nine years old. It is a beautiful Sunday morning in the summer, and my family and I are on our way to church. As I am sitting in the car, my mom asks me if I would like to go to Michigan with my grandparents and cousin. If I went to Michigan, I would be able to see my cousins, whom I have not seen in ages. I want to go to Michigan so much, but if I go I wouldn’t be able to go to my youth camp. I don’t know what to do. Should I go to Michigan or youth camp? Over the next few weeks I…

little girl when my parents were at work, I would spend my days at my grandparents, and in particular with my Oma. I loved it at my grandparents as a child, and I still love being there to this day; it is like my second home. My grandparents live in a house they built on a lake in White Pigeon, Michigan. Every summer I would spend hours going on walks with my grandparents, swimming and boating in the lake, and following my grandparents around the yard as they worked in it. Additionally, every…

in my studies and be the best that I can be but that was not the case. For the first couple of semester were very tough with the past events that were going on in my life. My very old and strong willed grandparents are my guardians since my mother had lost her fight to drug addiction. My grandparents always kept a up beat sense of humor and always reassured me that everything was OK but as the years go by I could tell that aging was getting the best of them. My first year of college was a…