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Personal Narrative: My Experience Of Leaving Ecuador

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Leaving Ecuador at the age 14 and coming to New York was the hardest decision I had to make. It wasn’t easy to come to a place where everything is new. The biggest challenge was learning the language. English used to give me a hard time in the school. In high school, I needed to carry a dictionary with me all the time; I took remedial classes and spent hours doing regular homework. However, I did not use the language as an excuse to do badly in the school, with perseverance and hard work I overcame the challenge and got outstanding grades. My greatest accomplishment takes place in high school. During my senior year, I made history at my school by being the first Latino to get a perfect score in the AP-Calculus class. I was really happy about

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