New Country Challenges

The challenge of a new country
People say life is all about facing new challenges. In 2008 my life changed for good when I moved to the United States from the Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic means so much to me. It’s a part of my life, my identity and my race. For me it was the hardest challenge I had to face in my life. I couldn’t believe how that one flight meant so much for my family and I. I was so young coming with my two sisters and my father, leaving my mother and most of my family members behind. Everyday life has gotten more challengeable since that big role that my father and my older sister had to play because of my mother’s absence. It was never an easy process at 10 years old and not speaking the language made it even harder. But everything comes for good, and here I’m now waiting for my next big challenge “college”.
Life is all about taking challenges and showing if you are strong enough to take them. The “challenge” of moving to a new country without knowing the language or the country will be the biggest confrontation I have made. I was born and raced in the Dominican Republic. It’s part of who I am and I don’t ever want to lose that. I identify myself with that country and I’m really proud of it. Although left in such a young age I have never forgotten about where I come from.
When we left the Dominican Republic in 2008 without my mother, we knew it was going to be a hard first, because it was the first time living without her, and lastly because it was going to be my father only with three young girls. My mother also knew how hard it was leaving without her. And having my older sister have that big role of a mother for the family was hard. I knew it was hard for her, but today I thank her for such, because she was the one that taught her to fight such a big challenge. And just because we didn’t speak the language, or didn’t have our mother we should never give