Who am I?

I was born in one of the largest Caribbean Countries, The Dominican Republic. I grew up there. I came to America in 2007 leaving my beautiful country, culture, and the most important thing my mother. I arrived to America and my first impression was “where am I?” I found everything weird but at the same time I was amazed by all the different things I was seeing. I live at the Bronx with my parents, my mother finally came and I am so glad I have my family together because my parents are the only true friends I have, they are my strength, they are the ones who motivates me to do good in school and be a better person in society. If I was asked to describe my personality with one word I would say sensitive.

As an immigrant I came to America with a lot of goals to accomplish, right now my main goal is to get the credits I need to transfer to another college to go into the medical field to become a pediatrician, get marry to a good man and have children. Coming to the Bronx definitely changed my life because in the place where I grew up people are very "conservative" and they like to judge you a lot without knowing who you really are, according to the old people in the neighborhood I used to live “just by someone’s appearance they can describe your personality. During my childhood I used to agree with their opinions and thought these people were right.

When I was becoming a teenager I started to ask myself questions like why are these people in my neighborhood being so ignorant?, and my interest  to find out about the “judges” background got bigger. And there are so many stories most of them no even compare to what they called moral so I said to myself...why are these people judging others if they used to live (la Vida loca).life is a learning process and in the road you may fall down and get back up or you can just keep falling and stay on the ground because at the end of the day is your life, your choices, your mistakes or your success. My point is that coming to America helped me develop my sociological imagination in so many ways before I was that girl believing that people who live freely no matter what others think, were people with no values and all that stuff but now I have more knowledge to understand that we all have different points of view, we don’t know other people’s backgrounds to judge them, nobody is perfect we were born to make mistakes and learn from them. In the United States we have so many different cultures and people do what ever they want because this is a free country and people are raised in many different ways. We weren't born to please everybody either way they talk about you.