Remember
Growing up in a migrant family was sometime difficult, especially when I was in elementary. I
remember every year my family and I would make a long journey from the state of
Nuevo Leon, Mexico, to a small town in California. While both my parents worked
long hard hours in the fields planting or harvesting all sorts of delicious
fruits; my older sister, younger brother, and I attended school.
I remember having a difficult
time adjusting every year; it was extremely hard to go half a school year to a
school in Mexico and the other half to a school in the United States. Trying to
keep up with a different language was the most difficult part; it was so frustrating
to communicate with teachers that did not understand a single word of my
original native language.
The elementary years are long
gone, and now all I can do is remember how challenging and wonderful all those
years were. The challenge of succeeding in both countries is something so
special that I will never forget. I
remember making the decision of becoming an elementary bilingual teacher since
I was in sixth grade; I just knew that teaching was what I needed to do in
order to help other students that faced the same challenges as I did when I was
growing up.
I remember how my parents would
always encourage us to try our best in everything we did; they always expressed
their desire for us to get a good education and they always gave us their full
support. They always told us that the best thing they could ever give us was an
education. My mom and dad’s favorite saying was and still is, you can always
lose everything, but the only thing you cannot lose and no one can ever take
away from you is your education. I can still remember their faces full of pride
and joy the day I graduated from the university.
Although I just started this new
journey, I will be honest I cannot wait to complete my Master’s Degree so that
I can once again experience that feeling of seeing my parents, my husband, and
my precious young boys faces full of pride and joy. I hope that they will
always remember that I could have never accomplished this without their
encouragement and support.
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