Sorry

Llegué a Estados Unidos hace aproximadamente cuatro meses, y todo comenzó porque mi mamá tiene una amiga que vive acá y ella le comentaba todo casi todos los días por teléfono, lo que hizo que mi mamá quisiera venirse a vivir acá. Un día ella nos dijo que quería venir y nadie más quería, solo ella. Al final logró convencer a mi papá de venirnos. Pero ni mi hermana ni yo queríamos aún. Yo ya tenía 16 años, me graduaba este año del colegio, tenía a mis amigas, mi novio, sabía a qué universidad quería entrar, y qué quería estudiar. Al final, decidimos venir todos a empezar una vida nueva.

Cuando llegamos fue bastante complicado adaptarme a la nueva cultura, a un idioma diferente y a estar lejos de mi familia y amigos. Es difícil saber que tienes que empezar de cero todo y más teniendo tantas cosas en tu país, pero poco a poco lo estamos haciendo.

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I came to United States approximately 4 months ago, and everything began because my mom had a good friend who lived here, and she talked to my mom everyday on the cellphone –  It made my mom want to come here to live. One day, she said to us she wanted to come but nobody in the family wanted to come, only she did.  Finally, she convinced my dad, but my sister and I still didn’t want to come. I was 16 years old.   I had friends, I had a boyfriend, I knew what university I wanted to study at and what career I was going to study. But, finally, we decided to come here to begin a new life. When we arrived, it was very complicated to adjust to this new culture, to this different language and to be far from my family and friends. It is difficult to begin a new life especially when you have so many things in your country, but everything in life is habit, so little by little, we are achieving.

It is difficult because schools here are very different, there are many more people  than in Colombia, the food is better in my country, in Colombia the people are more funny than here, the music that we listen in Colombia is totally different than here. I like cold, and Bogotá is cold, but the United States is so hot almost all year around. I live in Florida.