Personal Narrative: A Single Environment In My Life

Growing up I did not have one single environment like most people did, I was constantly facing new situations and meeting new people. However, there is one environment in my life unlike any other children of my age experienced or ever would, and that is spending most of their childhood at a flea market.

I was born in South Texas and raised by a single mother and my grandmother. My family is very small due to the fact the rest of my family lives in a different country, Mexico. My father has been out of the picture ever since I was three. When my parents got a divorce my father left my mother with only a small business they had established together, which was a fruit stand in what is known in South Texas at a place called the “Alamo Flea Market”. The “Alamo Flea Market” is an outdoor market that sells a variety of products ranging from selling food to selling pets; nonetheless, it is located in a low income demographic area. In our stand what we sold was fruits and vegetables

I was exposed to a lot of situations that most children at the time were not experiencing. For instance, I was helping my mother in a job that required a lot of physical weather while being outside in the hot climate; meanwhile, other children were enjoying daycare playing with other children their age. Although I was very young to be selling fruits and vegetables, there is three sets of skills that I picked up in the flea market that have helped me throughout the course of my life and those are: the art of persuasion, people skills, and knowing how to read body