I started school in Mexico, I went there for kindergarten and half of first grade. Those two years were very fun. In kindergarten my mom would take me to school every morning we would go walking since it wasn’t to far away from my house. My mom would take me lunch it would be fresh and delicious. In Mexico, you bring your own lunch the school does not provide you with it. SO when lunch time came we would all go outside and wait for our moms to come and bring us our lunch. There was also some ladies that would sell food outside the school and you could buy from them if you had a peso (dollar). In first grade there was a teacher who hated me with a passion! Why she hated me? I do not know. I would go to class and I would do my work …show more content…
Then from there I knew I had to learn how to speak english i got to it and said to myself I better learn english before the school year is over and it happened within 8 months i could speak english. But that year was extremely hard for me I still remember every bit of it. I could not communicate with my teacher or my classmates. The only thing I did was sign language and it was luck if they understood what I was trying to say. Everyone liked me since I was different like they said. The memory i remember most is when it was the one hundredth day of school and we had to make a poster with a 100. I did mine with beans i outlined the one hundred. I forgot to put my name on the poster and the teacher ask whose it was and i didn’t know how to say in english it was mine. Then this girl who did not do her poster decided to say my poster was hers i was so mad and i got up and told her in spanish it was mine not hers. The teacher said yes it was mine and i got credit for it and the other girl got in trouble for lying. I had all F’s during that time but i was still proud of myself because I tried very hard and as the saying says hard work always pays off. It did for me because know i am an A-B honor roll student and have been since my late