Personal Narrative: My First Interview

My first interview is with Valeria Delmau 25 years old American female middle class. She’s half Dominican Republic and half Puerto Rican descents were born in West Palm Beach Florida and she’s the second child of divorced parents. Parents got divorce when she was 8 years old. Both parents graduate from high school; her mother is a teacher in Boynton High. Her father left the family for another woman. Her father resides in Dominican Republic. She said, since then her mother become a hard working class citizen and lived paycheck to pay check in other for them to survive. Her mother get another job as certified nursing assistant but with hard work and perseverance ended up being upper middle class by the time she was in high school. She
stated that she was raised with the idea that hard work will enable her to improve her financial and work situation to help her move up the ladder on her chosen field of work from working class/middle class to upper middle class. She graduates with a Bachelor in Social Service; in August she will start her Master in Social Services. Race and culture has played a role in her life because she’s American but she identify with her Puerto Rican side more because she’s closer to that part of her family.