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I have never had any problems adjusting to my new life. My dad is in the
military, so that's why I've been all over the country.
But there was one time when it was really hard to adjust to the change.
I arrived in Nuevo Laredo when I was 14 years old 3 months away from
finishing high school, it was a difficult time because I was going to
graduate with strangers, those three months were the worst because they
tried to bother me but I fought back.
Almost every day they talked to my dad because I had already hit
someone, I did it to defend myself.
I had a hard time adapting to school and a new house.
I live in a military housing unit, so they are also military families, we are
about 1500 families and the truth is a very toxic environment, everyone
talks about everyone and if they don't know they make it up. After a year
of living here I had my first love, it was the best, I felt on cloud nine, it
was obvious it was my first boyfriend. But the neighbors invented that my
boyfriend was a delinquent and because of that they investigated me and
my whole family, they searched our house and almost ran us out because
of that gossip, they said very ugly things about me. I never saw my
boyfriend again and it was very difficult. But I got through it.
I also had a hard time adapting to the food since I came from a place
where everything was fresh and here everything is frozen.
I come from Puebla so there is a diversity of food there and here the
only thing they eat is grilled meat and everything is flour.
In Puebla the day of the dead is so beautiful everyone goes to the
cemetery to take care of their dead all night and I come here and
everyone asks for candy.
And I realize that here it is not day of the dead but halloween, it was a
cultural shock for me.