My
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Lorna Vargas
English 100
I
was born in the longest country of the world, a long ribbon at the very south
of America with the driest
desert of the world, my lovely country Chile . After this brief sign of extreme patriotism, I will add that I was born in the capital city Santiago, and I’m the second of
three sisters, we were a family of five.
I went to the same elementary school
with my two sisters, actually my eldest sister and I were classmates which at
that time was good, in case I got into trouble I had somebody who always backed
me up. After finishing school, I went to
University and when I was in my second year, I got married and before finishing
my bachelor's degree my first baby boy was born; four years later I had my
second baby boy and then after two more years finally my baby girl, I was happy
and I thought that was not going to have any more babies.
I worked for 10 years as secretary
in different companies, and one day we made plans and decided to come to this
country, we arrived at Miami , Florida
Some things worked well but others
didn't, I divorced and I moved to California
with my boyfriend and had a baby girl who is 13 years now. Living in this country was nice at the beginning,
but when my visa expired and we started to live here illegally it was very hard
to adjust because I was not used to work in jobs as minority, besides we didn't
have friends here and most of the people who come here have different customs
and origins, people that do not share our way of life.
Finally after 10 years of living
illegal in this country I got my residence and could get a better job, then I
started to think that I need to make a change in my life to get a better
position and also a better job so I can earn more money and at the same time spend
more time with my family. I decided it was not too late to study so I got back to
college, I'm currently in my third semester to get a major degree in child
development. Later I will try to get my
transcript of my Bachelor's degree in my country; at this moment are only plans
but, who knows, life is a surprise and I love surprises!
I haven't come back to my country since
I got here, 15 years now, so the only way to see my family is thanks to
technology, we connect in Skype and I have the chance to see my mother and my
sisters quite often, we are also connected in Facebook and What's up. I like to post pictures for them and make
comments on their pictures too. I
remember one special occasion, my sisters and nieces were preparing a Mother’s
Day celebration for my mom, they got everything ready with decorations, food
and drinks, and the cake, they showed me around with the camera I was connected
to Skype on the computer; then they placed the camera so I can see my mom when
she came into the living room, and there she came…. silence …. and
surprise!!! my mother was looking around everything and all of a
sudden she saw me on the TV screen waving my hand, she looked at my sisters and
asked them if it was a video hahaha, she started to cry talking to me, I was
crying, everybody was crying. After a while they sit down and started to talk
to each other as if I was there, it was awesome, before finishing the Skype connection
my mom and sisters stood close to the TV screen where I was and they took
pictures and posted them on Facebook. It
was a wonderful Mother’s day we will never forget.
From that moment on, I learnt it was
very useful to learn from media connections, despite being fun; I have had the
opportunity to be able to meet people and also rekindling old friendships.
This year 2016 will be bring good
things in my life, my eldest daughter came from Miami to live with me, she
decided to go back to school too, I think in some way she was inspired by me; I will learnt a lot from her to keep me
up-dated with technology and media communications tools.
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