Thisbeth Salazar Essay

Thisbeth Salazar
What was the environment in which you were raised? Describe your family, home, neighborhood, or community and explain how it shaped you as a person.
Becoming ‘Thisbeth’
Environmental factors help us shape us as we grow up and even into the times we stop ‘growing up’. With this being said I truly believe the atmosphere I grew in helped shaped into the person I am currently. Certainly, throughout my life I did not remain in the same environment which I also believe helped me experience certain characteristics to help me mold me even more. Through these seventeen years on this Earth, every year family factors help into bringing changing influences to who I am.
In my early years of my life, I was surrounded by family both immediate and distant. I grew up as an only child for the first twelve years of my life, so I grew up around my cousins, aunts, uncles, and grandparents. Because of this I believe this
My mother is what I consider a ‘social butterfly’, so this influenced little shy Thisbeth to learn to speak out and communicate freely with others, other than family members. Living with my mom also helped me to learn what could be consider painful experiences. Seeing that my mother is an immigrant from Mexico, she had to ‘restart’ her life after the divorce. My mother taught me what it was to have a strong work ethic, even at times leaving me around the ages of six to ten home alone so she could come home with enough to maintain us both. My mother till this day heavily empathizes the need of being a hard worker. Through this, my mother taught me life skills of becoming independent such as maintaining yourself, able to conserve money, and learn who to trust. After a difficult situation with my mother in the year of 2013, being in a troubling relationship with a partner, she left country for a few months leaving me to move in with my