Personal Narrative: My First Words

El Paso is a very culturally diverse city that borders, its sister city, Juarez. The

One of my first memories of reading dates back about 13 years. Aged at about 3 or 4 years old, I was still tumbling over small hands and feet, unaware of what to expect when it came down to the very concept of reading, and from whom to expect learning it from.

I want her to come back. I miss her more than anything. I get dad is trying to do his best, I mean what is he supposed to do after something like this has happened?

Gloria Anzaldua’s “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” focuses on the importance of language, specifically, how it shapes a person’s identity. Her publication outlines the different languages Anzaldua speaks that being Chicano Spanish, Pachuco Spanish, Standard Mexican Spanish, and North Mexican dialect. In addition, when asked about her culture, she would say she is mexicana, Chicana, tejana, and raza. Her languages intersected with her identity as she considered herself all four. Consequently, after reading Anzaldua’s story, I have contemplated my languages that intersect. As a result, my languages are Spanish, English, and Spanglish.

I'm from the Dominican Republic and I have 4 years living in the United States. When I came to the united states I was 13 years old, it was not easy for my brother and me to start a new life in another country without our mother. Learning another language was the hardest things I have ever done in my life.

I hug her knowing that this will be our last. Tears are streaming uncontrollably down my cheeks, staining her shirt. I'm not ready to say goodbye. I don't understand why this is happening. Out all of the 7.28 billion people in the world, why did it have to be her?

I didn’t know it yet, but the way I viewed the game of lacrosse was about to change drastically.

I am so sorry I’ve emailed you so many times but I would really really like to meet one on one with Gerardo. My initial meeting that was scheduled for February 14th, I had to cancel due to being very sick and not wanting to spread it to him or his family. Are there any open slots?

When Reyna arrived to the US she couldn’t wait to begin school, however it was not what she expected since she didn’t speak English. When Reyna arrived to class the first day she was frightened, and when she spoke Spanish her teacher shrugged and smiled and told her “No entender mucho” meaning that the teacher didn’t understand Reyna or what she was going through  (Grande p.171). This made Rayna feel anxious, as would have anyone in her situation, and to make matters worse the teacher “pointed to a table in the corner” making the ESL students feel more excluded than what they already were (Grande p.171). Mago, Rayna’s older sister also experienced troubles because she didn’t speak English, she liked a boy but “he didn’t notice her because she was an ESL student” (Grande p.208). A time when language became a barrier for Reyna’s success was when the teacher didn’t read her work to consider her for a competition because it was in Spanish. Reyna felt that it was unfair that her work wasn’t evaluated but she didn’t have the English words to say what she thought, so she said nothing at all (Grande

Achiever- As an Achiever, “No matter how much you may feel you deserve a day of rest, if the day passes without some form of achievement, no matter how small, you will feel dissatisfied.” Sometimes people call me an overachiever, but that is how I feel is my normal.

I have been doing some thinking about our conversation a few days ago and have concluded that I will take you up on the offer! I just sold my old bike and now have some money left over that I can use to pay for those seminars. I am going to see how soon I can get this done, I am going to look at the dates and send my form in.

Why are there no lines? Why are there no goals? Why were the benches not moved? Just some of the things that went wrong on 9/12/15. That is the day my soccer team won 8-0 at our first home soccer game. The tensions were high and we were stressed no lines or goals. We had to move the benches all while trying to get prepared for the game. Coach Troy was running late as usual coach Nick was late for the first time and we were trying to warm up without him and get a handle on what to do about the field.

I was raised with Christian values in mind, and attended a Methodist school. I was raised in the Christian faith yet I find myself, as with some of my friends who were raised in the same conditions, we seem to be growing farther away from our upbringing as we age. I find myself simply not understanding as time goes by, a complete polar opposite from the song ‘Farther Along’. One of my hopes in attending PBA is to try and find answers and a reason to try and reconnect myself. I believe PBA, from what I’ve read, has a very friendly understanding environment. One where you sit down and go into depths about faith, instead of blindly following it because it was your parent’s

He turned to me, questioning whether I want to raise it or not. The only reply he received-frankly the only reply he would ever need-was my bid number slightly raised in the air and my head slightly nodding in approval.

The cities in Iraq were big and there was a lot of people and the population in 2013 was about 33.42 million. And in Baghdad was a big city I grow up there and it had to much people. And in Iraq it was always crowded and too much houses and cars. There was a lot of crimes and it was scary to live there since the war in 2003. And people were not nice at all and my parents left Iraq in 2007.