Personal Narrative: The Year That Changed My Life
It happened on September of 2014, the year that changed my life forever. I moved from Honduras to United States. From a small country to one of the biggest countries in the world. It was, still is, a different environment from living in a big city to a “small” city in the south of the United States. I left all my friends, family, and college studies. I left everything behind.
It all happened so fast, my mother told my brother, Samuel, and I, “Would you like live in the United States?” The answer was obviously. We said, “Of course, we want to live in the United States.” Then, my mother began the process of applying for the Permanent Residence on April or May of 2014. A lot of paper work. They asked us, to get our high school diplomas, our penal …show more content…
First, we get ready our baggage, there were like eight or ten baggage. It is the next day, we got everything ready. We get to the bus station. We travel from our city, Tegucigalpa to San Pedro Sula, on bus. It was a five hour drive. I thought it was going to be terrible. It wasn’t. I fall asleep the entire time. We stayed in San Pedro Sula one day, which was really terrible because it was so hot. Next and final day, September tenth of 2014. We woke up really early that day, at six in the morning. We get ready and get in the shuttle. We arrived to the airport at nine in the morning and got everything ready for checking-in. We waited for two hours; the plane was schedule to take off at eleven in the morning. It was eleven in the morning. We get in the plane, sit in our seats. Thirty minutes later the plane starts flying. We are in the air and saying goodbye to our country. Next thing, we arrive in Miami and then, we take our second plane, which by the way, got damaged and then ten minutes later they brought a ‘new’ and we lift off to Charleston, South Carolina. We arrived at one in the morning. More than fifteen hours in airports. My uncle, José, was waiting for us and then he took us to our new
It all happened so fast, my mother told my brother, Samuel, and I, “Would you like live in the United States?” The answer was obviously. We said, “Of course, we want to live in the United States.” Then, my mother began the process of applying for the Permanent Residence on April or May of 2014. A lot of paper work. They asked us, to get our high school diplomas, our penal …show more content…
First, we get ready our baggage, there were like eight or ten baggage. It is the next day, we got everything ready. We get to the bus station. We travel from our city, Tegucigalpa to San Pedro Sula, on bus. It was a five hour drive. I thought it was going to be terrible. It wasn’t. I fall asleep the entire time. We stayed in San Pedro Sula one day, which was really terrible because it was so hot. Next and final day, September tenth of 2014. We woke up really early that day, at six in the morning. We get ready and get in the shuttle. We arrived to the airport at nine in the morning and got everything ready for checking-in. We waited for two hours; the plane was schedule to take off at eleven in the morning. It was eleven in the morning. We get in the plane, sit in our seats. Thirty minutes later the plane starts flying. We are in the air and saying goodbye to our country. Next thing, we arrive in Miami and then, we take our second plane, which by the way, got damaged and then ten minutes later they brought a ‘new’ and we lift off to Charleston, South Carolina. We arrived at one in the morning. More than fifteen hours in airports. My uncle, José, was waiting for us and then he took us to our new