Even though my first year in school at Colegio Espiritu Santo was really hard because I didn’t know any English, these were the first step towards learning and perfecting this language for my future. I learned to love it through reading novels and watching TV, encouraged by my English teacher who was a really good help in this process. In school, I made really good friends with whom I still talk and had new …show more content…
The police doesn’t help mostly because they are underpaid and do not get the benefits they deserve. Before, I used to go more because of my grandparents. They were getting older with a lot of health issues, and my dad wanted them to spend time with their grandchildren while they could remember them. Now we just go if there is a reunion or something big is happening in the family like a wedding. But even my father, aunts and uncles take a lot of precautions in front of the situations that the Dominican Republic is living.
Not paying attention to the situation and thinking more of my future and what I wanted to accomplish in life, I decided to enroll in college. I started Union County College in the summer of 2013 in their Trinitas School of Nursing, but later changed to Liberal Studies exploring Science and Art as a result of not being able to get a loan because of my status. But after that situation, I was set into motion to reconfigure my plan. In the liberal studies program I had the opportunity to focus on my science courses, and planning my next step as a future Kean University