Essay On Personal Narrative: My Life As An Immigrant
Everyone knows that one smart guy from school. The one who is involved in almost everything he can put his hands on. The one who gets stick for being an “over-achiever”. The one people don’t get to know unless they need him for something school related. And that would be me.
My parents are illegal immigrants, I have no shame in that, and they are some of the hardest workers I have ever seen. I was born in Dallas, Texas, and lived in the city of Pleasant Grove for the first year of my life at my uncle’s house. Most people refer to that area as the “hood” but here I am. We lived in my uncle’s house because my parents hadn’t been in the United States long enough for them to be completely established without any help. After countless hours of work my dad …show more content…
When I began to go to school my whole world opened up. I was put into the Bilingual program in my school and just after a few weeks I was speaking in English like a pro and I was so happy to tell my mother my first accomplishment due to their tremendous feat. At school, my teachers began to notice my thirst for learning and began to send me to classrooms of upper-grade levels in order for me to do their work. Of course being the innocent child that I was, I was more than happy to come along.
Throughout the weeks they began to see my potential and put me in the Quest Program which puts the brightest elementary school kids together and my school driven attitude started from there. I was put in the gifted and talented program in middle school and I am still currently in it. I have passed 11 AP tests to date and have received recognition from that as well as my PSAT ACT and SAT scores, and I am the current Valedictorian at Mesquite High School. I know a lot of applicants have some of the same accomplishments I possess. But for a for a teenager who has defied the odds of making it this far with his
My parents are illegal immigrants, I have no shame in that, and they are some of the hardest workers I have ever seen. I was born in Dallas, Texas, and lived in the city of Pleasant Grove for the first year of my life at my uncle’s house. Most people refer to that area as the “hood” but here I am. We lived in my uncle’s house because my parents hadn’t been in the United States long enough for them to be completely established without any help. After countless hours of work my dad …show more content…
When I began to go to school my whole world opened up. I was put into the Bilingual program in my school and just after a few weeks I was speaking in English like a pro and I was so happy to tell my mother my first accomplishment due to their tremendous feat. At school, my teachers began to notice my thirst for learning and began to send me to classrooms of upper-grade levels in order for me to do their work. Of course being the innocent child that I was, I was more than happy to come along.
Throughout the weeks they began to see my potential and put me in the Quest Program which puts the brightest elementary school kids together and my school driven attitude started from there. I was put in the gifted and talented program in middle school and I am still currently in it. I have passed 11 AP tests to date and have received recognition from that as well as my PSAT ACT and SAT scores, and I am the current Valedictorian at Mesquite High School. I know a lot of applicants have some of the same accomplishments I possess. But for a for a teenager who has defied the odds of making it this far with his