Grandparents Essay

we walk in the door so that we can sit down in hear our grandparents tell stories about the family’s history. With this being said I feel like Marji and her grandmother had some sort of a “normalcy”, but it was also unique and a relationship that only they would understand. Since I was very young when my grandparents died I never had the pleasure of building a close bond with them. Throughout my life, I have based my views of grandparents off of movies or how I’ve witnessed my friends…

building is enough for the entire planet. As different as we all seem though, we are all here for the same reason. Cleveland is located in the northern part of Ohio. From Nitro, West Virginia it is approximately a five hour trip in a car. With my grandparents, two cousins, and I, this road trip…

My grandparents introduced me to Occupational Therapy. My grandma, having been diagnosed with a rare neurological degenerative disease, had a stroke that impaired her fine motor skills. My grandpa, although I was not alive at the time, was diagnosed with Guillain-Barre in his 50s and was told he would be paralyzed at midlife. I watched OTs rehabilitate my grandma after her stroke so that she could complete important daily tasks again, like holding a pencil and writing with clarity. I was…

Unlike most people, I was raised and cared for by my grandparents a large part of my life. It has always been apparent that I have felt a great deal closer to them than to my biological parents. Uniquely, my grandparents were born on the same day – February 22nd – but two years apart. Because of this, as a young child I believed that you had to marry someone who had the same birthday as you and had great difficulty in understanding how my parents got married legally. My grandmother, Grace…

I might not have been born in Laredo, nonetheless it became my home. My mother came here in hopes of giving her family a better than the one she had in San Pedro, Mexico. Growing up with only one parent is not easy for six kids with a mother who never made it past middle school. We made do with what we had and what we had gave through to some significant memories from my childhood. I remember my aunt and mother meeting up to make tamales and champurrado to sell. I can remember the humidity that…

This happened to my great-grandparent and his brother, who were the two elder brothers (in total they were 12 children); they were living in Sonsonate, a very poor part of El Salvador. It was a rainy day and their mother was incredibly sick that she could not move from her bed, and it was urgent that a doctor review her before getting worst. My great-grandpa and his brother went in the middle of the rain and walked approximately 2km until they got in the doctor’s house. The doctor rejected to go…

My job as a teacher is not to be thanked daily, my job to to help give back. My parents and grandparents have taught me to past down what I have learned and to always be appreciative of my culture. I want each student to learn the dimension of their culture and the beauty of where they come from. I also want each student to experience the beauty of…

Old Dogs Is it inherent to associate the elderly with mothballs and bingo? Is it a natural occurrence in nature for the youth to regard their ancestors as merely artefacts of a generation long gone, remnants of a society brought up by different social values and morals. Where have those beliefs of decades ago gone, where the elderly were considered oracles of wisdom and knowledge? Has the Internet connected us so extensively to the point that we no longer need to know of our own history and…

tomorrow had just became today. Yes, I was born in Park Chester, New York, but that’s not the whole story from top to bottom. A month later after I was born, I went to a beautiful little island called Trinidad and Tobago, to where my parents and grandparents had lived. My mother had always dreamed of the American dream: a job, a car and a beautiful home. But, she was too scared of leaving the place that made her…

Helping others is something that has always interested me, the person whose job you will be reading about is someone who is very strong with her work and someone who puts other people before them. I chose to shadow a very nice lady named Dana Clarke, she sits with my grandmother and is so amazing to her. I never knew how much somebody could make a difference in your life until Dana became apart of our big but somewhat small family. Dana continues to be one of the many role models that are in my…