My Story

I was born in a very small town called El Rodeo, in one of the most beautiful countries of the world, Guatemala. I was raised by my grandparents, Carlos and Otilia. Because of financial circumstances, my mother had to leave the town, so when I was exactly one year old she moved firs to Mexico and then to California. At first we lived in a small house but after some years, we were able to build a new house, so now we had more room for all the kids. In my house, there were 17 grand kids and my two grandparents. Yeah I know! So many kids but if was so fun to be with them. I was the youngest girl out of all of them so they really took good care of me.
I can say that I was very spoil while I was in Guatemala. My family really loved me and my cousins were always looking up for me. There were so many adventures and experiences that I lived while I was there. Sometimes I start thinking about how much I miss being backed there because of the crazy things that I used to do. So while growing up I didn’t have many girl friends. For some reason they just did not like me. I had more boy friends than anybody else in town. I guess that was one of the reasons why the girls didn’t like me.
When I was in school I participated in so many things, so people really knew who I was. I once was the Queen of INEBOA. INEBOA was the school that I used to go to before I moved to the USA. Because I was the Queen of INEBOA, I had to participate in the beauty pageant for my town. So I decided that I would do it. Oh what an experienced it was to be part of the Beauty Pageant of my town. I did not win the crown but I did win so many friendships and more experiences. In January 2002 I received a letter from my mother with a plane ticket inside. I was shocked because I did not see myself coming to the United States.
At first I was upset that my mother didn’t consult with me about moving to a different country, but the days passed by so I had to accept that I had to leave everything behind and start a new life. In February 27 I flew into the Newark airport. Finally I was in the great United States, but it was not as how I expected to be. I needed to start learning English, and start going to school again with people that I did not know and who were from different countries that I didn’t even heard about it.
Learning English was a challenge which is something that I am still trying to improve (as you can tell), but that was not the only challenge that I had, now I had to start making new friends and start really practicing what I had learned in the past from my grandmother and the church. So I did, I decided that I did believe what they had taught me and I decided to keep going to church which now is a big part of my life.
So now there are so many things that I have achieve and I know that if I would of not making the decision of using that plane ticket and come to this country, my status/situation would have been completely different from what it is right now. So I am grateful for what I did in the past and what I have become because of it.

This is part of who I am

Who I am is because of what I believe. Since I was a little girl, my grandmother used to take me to church. At first I did not like going to church, I thought it was the most boring thing to do. Little by little I was able to understand and to see the importance of going to church and how beneficial it was all the things that I was learning. At home, my grand mother taught me to be an honest person, a person with values but most important, a charitable person. She taught me how to behave in front of other people, but also how to behave when no one else was around me. She taught me almost everything that I know, and I can say that I am the person who I am now because of her. She was and still is the biggest influence in my own life, and because of her I want to be better every single day. Another thing that influenced me was church. I learned spiritual things for example believing that there is a God, that Jesus Christ is real and that he really died for me.
What I know is that this life can be hard some times, but as long as I trust in God, and put my faith in him that he can help me, I know that he will be able to help me through those times. Having faith in Christ has helped me to view things in a positive way, even when I don’t think it is possible. Also my dilemma is that you need to Work Hard and HAVE FUN! I believe that if you are not having fun, then you are not enjoying life. We have such a great opportunity to live and experience so many good things and we need to take advantage of it. Life is beautiful and we are here to be happy and to enjoy the beauty of this earth. How grateful I am for having my own agency, because if I am not happy it is because I choose not to. Isn’t life this so simple? I think we make it so complicated.
Now I know that there is a plan prepared for all of us and that all we have to do is “be human”. Now be a human? Yeah I did not know what that meant until I actually studied it and what is a human being anyway? Well we know that definition for a human is that humans are not perfect. Now I am not perfect but I can always try my best. How do I try my best? I do it by putting in practice what I have learned and always believing in God and of course trying to be happy.