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Hi, I’m Angelo, I was born on the 14th of 2006, in Lima Perú. My mom and my grandparents always made me live a good life when I was 3 or 4. Despite the issues that were facing, my mom and my dad (he’s my stepdad but I love him and I think that he’s the best that a son could ever have) always made me feel that we were always okay, and after a little while we were. 

My life in Peru was good, we faced some Issues like most people but always stayed strong and we overcame them. Since I was little, we started to travel together as a family, we first visited Paracas (a town on Peru’s west coast) and then we went to more places like Punta Cana (RD), Riviera Maya (M.X), Panama City, etc. I liked traveling and being in a plane (I think that’s why I want to become a pilot) but what I most enjoyed is being with my family and having them. 

I’ve always been a good student in school. I went to a soccer academy but the only issue is that I never liked soccer so much and my dad noticed it.  He took me out of the soccer academy and put me in other sports that I may like and I did. He took me to tennis classes and I did well in that sport. Then I changed to try basketball and I liked it so much. I think that my dad always tries to give me more opportunities than he had in his childhood. I’m very thankful for having him as my dad because of all the things that he did and he is a great example for me to follow. 

I was in a good school back in Peru, the name of my old school was “Innova Schools”, it had always been influenced by the “American way of teaching” and I think that they were always good at bringing the most important and beneficial things of how the U.S  educators teach their children. For example; they dedicate the use of computers and technology to the day-a-day education 

In August 2021, I came to the U.S. to live and start a new life. Weeks before, when they told me about the trip, I didn’t freak out or something like that because my parents when I was younger always told me about the possibility to someday in the future go and live In the U.S, so I think I  was like: “OK, I think the time has already come”. When I got here I tried to help with everything that I could do to settle on the new house, but the part that was a challenge for me was school.

Being the new kid in a new school is already annoying, but being a new kid in a new school,  from another country, who doesn’t speak your language, and being in a school which is like 20  times bigger than your old one is not as fun as it sounds. Those very first days were difficult, I was very nervous. A couple of times, when I was getting ready my nose, started to bleed because of the stress, I felt nauseous, my hands were shaking I didn’t know where I had to go. But the moment my parents dropped me off, I suddenly changed my mindset. I was still afraid of what could happen but I kept walking to the school. The first week was so bad, I mean, I got lost but who didn’t? I met new people, some of those only spoke English and some of those spoke Spanish so it was good, with the past of the days I was feeling a little more familiar with the school, but since day 1 I’ve never stopped thinking about my family and friends in Peru, for example, If I was having a good time in school there was sometimes when I was like: Wow, I wish my best friend in Peru was here laughing about it. 

Everything was going well until I had a not-so-happy day, I went to my house, sat down, and realized that I hadn’t talked with my Peruvian friends in a while. I didn’t know what my family was and the friends that I made here were ok but they were not as close as I was with my friends in Peru. At that moment I felt a little bad because I felt a little lonely. But  I didn’t let that demotivate me and instead of became depressed. or something like that I looked for motivation.

I looked for my goals, I remember the efforts that my family went through to bring us here. We already put our effort into being here to have a better life. I know that there are people who want to be in my position, a lot of people will want to change their lives to live in the United States, sleep in a nice house, study In a good school, and have the stuff that I have. I’m not saying that being sad is bad, what I’m saying is that staying sad would not solve anything, if you cannot control your way of thinking, you will not be able to change anything in your life. I was already here so I couldn’t just give up, I mentally got better and I got over that sad situation. By getting better and by creating solutions like calling my family and friends more. Also having more plans like going to the gym, reading, and learning new stuff every day. Every day I try to meet new people and get better at controlling my thoughts In my mind to have more willpower.

Well, In conclusion, I would say that everyone has moments where they need to put more effort into achieving the goal that they want to reach. But I think the problem is when we think that the problem that we are currently facing it’s very big and it appears to have no solution, but when we look at another person’s problem we can easily see that the issue that we are facing does not appear so big anymore. There are times when we don’t appreciate what we have and we think that our problems are always bigger than other people’s problems and that we cannot do anything to get over them, but there will always be someone that life is hitting harder than you and I know that most of the time that person is still standing up because he’s just to focus on the responsibility that he has than he does not have time to think in losing. So, that’s what my life was mostly about, having challenges, good moments, family, and trying to get better every day.