COLLEGE FOR ALL

LUCINDA PEREZ
2.1.11
CREW

                        STRUGGLES TO SUCCEED: A MOTHER LEGACY

              My inspiration to go to college started when my mother told me her complicated childhood story. That’s when I realized how important is to have an education, and learn how to value it ,and not just waste it!
            It all started when my mother was about five years old, she told me that my grandfather past away. My grandmother did not have enough money, and she had to take care of the rest of her children including my mother. My mother had many barriers in her life that caused her struggle, and not achieve her dreams. She didn’t  attend to school because instead she had to work, and help my grandmother out. She had to work out in the field under the hot sun rays. She never learned how to read a simple word nor write. Sometimes she wanted something, but she couldn't get it because of not knowing how to speak Spanish. She only knew how to speak Mom the native language of Guatemala. There would be so many days that my mother did not have a plate of food over her table and a glass of water, because they payed her a low amount of money. Sometimes the money went to my grandmother hands to pay for medicine. There would be so many times that my mother shed tears over her pillow, about her difficult life ,and thinking about how to make her future better. My mother grew with out having an education because there wasn’t any money to afford a school. There would be many times that my mother didn’t have a pair of shoes. When I heard that, I thought very long, I told myself that I would keep on going in school getting the education that my mother never received, and that I would keep on going ,and overcome all the barriers in my way not letting anything come between me and my education.
              This is why I’m here this is why I’m trying my best  in school getting an education for the change for my future. There are many opportunities that have been available for me, but is not very easy to obtain them either. I am receiving the education that was never given to my mother. The education that many other kids aspire to have because in this world not all people are the same. There can be people living in poverty who can’t receive an education like my mother never did or many other people who have dropped out because of many different reasons. I have many family members that have gone to elementary school, but not all have finished high school and college. Only one of my friends has gone to college who I look up to as a leader for the rest of us the students who want to go to college to know that if you dream big you can achieve your goals even if you think that is very hard and challenging to get there but if you try very hard, anything is possible for the one who tries hard. That it doesn’t matter where you come from or what is your background but most importantly what you can show the whole word that you can do. My friend came to the United States as an immigrant to seek for a better life. He’s from Guatemala, he came here alone. He stayed at his uncles house ,and when he was a teenage he went to high school and now he’s going to college.  There were many difficulties that he confronted in his life, but so far he hasn’t letting himself down he’s still on going and hasn’t doesn’t give up! I want to be like him to go to college. Now two of my sisters are in high school one is in 10th grade and the other is going to graduate in high school this year. If she doesn’t go to college and my other sister I will be the first person from my entire family to go and graduate from college.
               Going to college means a lot to me. Taking my own path, and start from the beginning till the end. Going to college is reaching the star that I’ve always looked up to in the dark nights. This is why I want to college, to demonstrate my family that they can trust on me, I want them to feel proud of me. I want to be a leader for my community to show other people that t look up to me that I can go far in life if I decide to. It doesn’t matter where I come from but what I can give the world. That I believe in my self no matter what. That I can achieve the American dream no matter how I look but most important is who I am , and the choices that I’m making today that will shape my future tomorrow. Going to college for all is a very important opportunity because in that way you can get to learn about things in college, and know what is really like to go to college.It allows me to know more about how my future will be like when I’ll go to college. Is not going to be easy at all ,but I really want to go to college because if you go to college and you get a college degree is the best ticket out of a long-run poverty life. My dream is to go to college one day ,and I know I will .