Wendy vergaray Dr.

Griffin English 12 30 October 2012 The mind is a very mysterious thing it helps u remember It helps u think understand it a big part of your everyday life every moment and every experience is stored in it. There are also I believe ways that the mind protects you by erasing painful moments that you would prefer not to remembering think in a way it a good thing but sometimes I wish I could remember the happy parts too It was a great day of cores it had to be, it was my birthday I believe I was 3 maybe 4 at least to. I was standing on a chair watching everyone around me smile paraise me and sing to me I remember it was time you now that moment when the happy birthday song is over and your thinking what should I wish for I remember my brother getting close to me and wispering in my ear wendy wish for me to get better. That day I dont remember what I wished for I dont now if I whished for him to get better maybe I wished for a Barbie or a bunny or a ponny He didnt get better I remember holding my mom and dads hand standing their I dont know what time it was Nor what day it was its a memory thats very vage I looked around their were so many people nobody spoke everyone stud silent yet sreaming in the inside I I dont remember anything els but crying just crying nothing would ever be the same not after, this who would I play with, who would I stike my toung out to who would I hit id I didnt get my favorit toy, what would I do with out him my brother wasint here any more he was in that box that box that I didnt want to see I didnt

after my brothers death we didint saty long living in peru was getting harder my parents didint have enught money to live a comfotabel lifestyel eveything had go down hill my fathers buissines whent down hill and my mother only cried. Them one day our lifes changed completely from one day to another my parents were granted a visa I was about five when we decided to take the little things we had in peru and come to america. We had been so upset so heart broken and lost after my brothers death but when we arived in new york we were amazed seiing everything america had to offer I hered people speek but I dint understand I saw I so manythings that I had never seen befor but after all the amazments came the worrys we had found a place to well I wont say sive but more or so sleep it was a basment I remember their was only a twin bed wehre me and my mother slept my father always being a gentelman slept on the floor on thand whe had dogs that were our neighbors I will never forget the day they didint let us back in on a snow night I was quickly enrold into school and rmbet the first word I learnd in engilsh u would have thought it micht have been something importans like bathroome money or hey even candy but the first word I learnd to say in english was window my father started working in a peritty good company and things had goten a lot better for us I had learnd many other words then just window my mom woked as a ceaning lady it other peoples homes frome a very young age my parents always took me everywere they went it was only the three of us since I was going to school my parents also need me to help them when they needed help taliking as I grwe older I wasint just a wheres the lettuc at the supermaket bu I had been something really important to my parents I was their personal translater and in a way I guess it was nice to have gone to their jobs and translated or go to intervews with my mom at the age of ten I new how to fill out a work apication since it was had for my mom to keep a job. We were illigal imagrents and my mom could only keep a job until they stated asking for a social security. it was

a blesing to have nown all thes things and hoth have been like some of my peers who are just learning about thes kind of things but I missed out on my chillhood and grw so old when I should have been a kid in my life I have been not just a kid but also an adult after being in ameica for 10 years we wher granted residensy I was also present in that interwiew but this time they dint need me since they had an interperted through out those ten years we had lived with the fear of being deported or being seperated but thanks to God he was always their. Living through all of thise hardships have made me the person I am today . I cant say I now everything out their but ive been thrugh a lot. Through out my life I have always helped with all that I could in a way I could say that this has made me independent as a young child I had to cary my own weight my parents werent abel to help me with school wise stuff like homework they didint understand english but they taught me may other things that school couldint teach me my parents taught me to live on my own to feet they taught me to be a strong person and to fight for what I belived they taught me respect and many other things that are no longer taought in todays society . Evrn though my childhood wasint the best even though many horribel things have hapeend I am proud to be where I am today and I want to keep fighting for the better future my parents seet out to have a long time ago mi minde has not yet been full I have so much more to learn and I want to keep learning I wante to become someone needed in society I want to help others in anyway that I can I want to keep fighting for God, for my brother, for my parents, and for myself I want to learn so much more about the mistury of the world I have an amition to suced in life and am determind to gat their