Personal Narrative: My Journey To The United States
As it stands, I will be the third person in my family to go to college, but am part of the first generation of my family that will be applying to college in the United States. Before being granted the opportunity to permanently reside in and pursue an education in the United States, I lived in Angeles, Pampanga in the Philippines where I was born and raised as an infant. Though my mother was still inexperienced as a nurse, she worked to support myself and my father, who was unable to find a job in our surrounding area. It is through this hard work and dedication to her job that allowed us as a family to survive, travel overseas, and find a home in the frightening, new world of the United States.
However, my mother did not come with us when she sent us to the States. After applying for all of our Visas, my father and I were accepted though she was declined. She instead took a different route to the United Kingdom, where she worked for three years while my father and I went to live with my grandmother, who had migrated years earlier. From my years as a young child then in Delaware, I remember embracing every chance to talk to my mother, whose voice traveled 3,600 miles every night through the phone just to send me her love while she worked to support our family. These are a few of the most memorable events …show more content…
From having to assimilate to a new culture, my family left many of our loved ones behind and this fact would resonate strongly years later. In response, my parents saved money to allow my family to visit the Philippines every four years. From my growth from childhood to adolescence, making my trip back to the Philippines taught me a lesson every visit. From being unable to be with family in the Philippines as they suffered from illness to seeing the poverty-stricken life of the people in Pampanga, I have developed a deep appreciation of the opportunities I have been
However, my mother did not come with us when she sent us to the States. After applying for all of our Visas, my father and I were accepted though she was declined. She instead took a different route to the United Kingdom, where she worked for three years while my father and I went to live with my grandmother, who had migrated years earlier. From my years as a young child then in Delaware, I remember embracing every chance to talk to my mother, whose voice traveled 3,600 miles every night through the phone just to send me her love while she worked to support our family. These are a few of the most memorable events …show more content…
From having to assimilate to a new culture, my family left many of our loved ones behind and this fact would resonate strongly years later. In response, my parents saved money to allow my family to visit the Philippines every four years. From my growth from childhood to adolescence, making my trip back to the Philippines taught me a lesson every visit. From being unable to be with family in the Philippines as they suffered from illness to seeing the poverty-stricken life of the people in Pampanga, I have developed a deep appreciation of the opportunities I have been