This year I have so many goals and accomplishments I have to do. My goals are to finish all my classes and others that I have not finished. To have a 3.50 gpa and come to school everyday so I may be able to walk for graduation. It will be a little hard but it's possible to accomplish. I will be the 3rd of my family to graduate from high school. Two of my cousins graduated last year and they have made our family really proud that they risked their lives to bring us here for a better life and we are paying them by making our lives better. My other goal is to go college. I don't really know what college I will be attending but I want to become a teacher or secretary. One of those catch my attention, I really love teaching kids because when I was in 8th grade I would help out teachers when I had free time during class. I really want to make my whole family proud to and want them to be there when I accomplish all my goals.
Seeing my parents work everyday in the fields for 16 years has been horrible. There's been points that work gets harder when it rains they don't work and that's when money goes down. There's been points where they have to wake up around 3 in the morning so they could leave all the way to Selma or Bakersfield, 1 hour away from our home. During winter we hardly see them just at night but they are tired and exhausted from a long day of work so they eat and sleep. They do this for many months, work never finishes for them. Each year it's the same thing our parents work we go to school and study. Since I was small I've seen them struggle. At first they didn't really know how to work they wouldn't even win a great amount of money they would win just for my babysitter and to pay the person who would give them rides to work. It was hard, because I wouldn't get what I wanted, at times I had to wear boy close because they couldn't afford clothes for me. The years went by and then they started to work better and better. By a little help from the school they would make it through. Now we live more comfortable I'm able to buy what I need. But I actually work for my own things now that I'm old I'm capable to work and buy myself whatever I need or want. As you see they been my motivation and my dad is the most that has believed in me pushing me through. Even when i felt like giving up he's been there for me since I was a little girl. I am grateful to have a father like that yeah we have ups and downs but you know what he's always going to be there. He gives me good advice and I've seen work all his life just to have a better life for my whole family. I want him to be proud of me and all my family too.