Three Annectdotes
16 years ago
Saturday, September 12, 2009
My Grandmother
My grandmother came to the U.S. in 1980 with her four children from a foreign country called Nicaragua. At that time there was a war in her country and was no longer safe to live in. They first arrived in Pennsylvania, which had snow, my grandmother had never experienced snow, and she hated it. She told me she never went outside,and said "In Nicaragua, its always hot and tropical, even when it rains its hot.""The weather was very ugly, gloomy, and freezing." The truth was she was home sick especially because she had never parted from her mom or family for so long. My grandmother had my mother and her siblings at a young age and her family was always there to help support her. Until she moved to the U.S. where nobody understood her because she spoke spanish, the weather depressed her, and she had no family to comfort her. Even though there was many things in Pennsylvania that upset her she maintained a smile for her chlidren. At that time my mother and her siblings were attending the best private catholic schooll which was Norte Dame. While her children were in school she and my grandfather attended a college at John's Town State University where my grandfather studied Economy and my grandmother psycology; sadly my grandmother couldn't pursue her dreams for the sake of her children's education. Eventually my grandfather got a job in San Francisco; which excited my grandmother because she had heard there was no snow. At that time my grandmother had not spoken with her mother for 12 years and dearly missed her, but she believed that her children were better off living in the United States.
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Conclusion16 years ago
Your grandma is very independent and really cared for her children's feelings. I was pretty amazed when I read about the part where she hated snow. That's a first I had ever heard anyone say. There were some grammar problems in here, but it's still great! (:
ReplyDeleteYour grandmother was really brave to move to the United States with her family, leaving behind her mother and siblings so that she could pursue and provide a better life for her children. Even when she had language barriers and was homesick, she knew her children could have a better life with many more opportunities than had they stayed in Nicaragua. She was also sacrificing because she gave up psychology class so that she could support and provide a better education for her kids.
ReplyDeleteYour grandmother sounds like a great person. For her her children came first. She made sure that her children had a bright future. She was very brave to come to the U.S without her entire family. She is also very strong, because she was able to deal with the snow and the gloomy weather.
ReplyDeleteYour next step toward a narrative will be to take this rather broad telling of your grandmother's life- which reads more like an interview than a story- and focus on specific moments to "flesh out"- like the day of her arrival in Pennsylvania or her last conversation with her mother. These will be much more compelling than simply listing a handful of events in her life.
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