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Puerto Rico Essay

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Life offers us many paths to decide our future. It gives us experience and different types of impacts. Coming to the United States from Puerto Rico when I was seven years old was by far the biggest effect on my life. This experience touched me the most because I was given an opportunity to learn and have a greater opportunity in life. Learning a different language was my biggest obstacle, but I overcame it through hard work and determination.

Being young and only knowing Spanish was difficult in school because I could not communicate with my peers and I could not understand what the teacher said, therefore making it harder to do my schoolwork. Something had to be done, so I picked up books, dictionaries and went to the libraries to teach …show more content…

it opened many opportunities for me, that in Puerto Rico I would not been able to have. There is an endless list of things I can have as a profession while in P.R it is limited and the resources that are in America it is impossible to find in P.R. The fact that I have a better chance to be successful in the U.S. will provide a brighter future for myself and my child. For example, the jobs and the pay here in the U.S is very different from Puerto Rico. In Puerto Rico there’s barely good profession jobs. You will mostly see everyone working in retail stores, supermarkets, fast food, and even families have to make their own business in food trucks because even with a degree in Puerto Rico it is almost unthinkable to get a decent …show more content…

Although it was very hard for me in the beginning especially coming to a new residence with everyone speaking a different language I am very thankful. Against all the struggles, I overcame each obstacle I thought I was not capable of. Going to school, working a good job and having my son in a wonderful school is easy to find in the U.S which in P.R it is remarkably tough. Leaving Puerto Rico was extremely hard but visiting my family is a yearly thing, but I will not change my lifestyle here in the States. I love my son dearly, and I’m blessed and thankful to be in the United

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