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Victor (great-great-grandfather)
My Great-Great-grandfather Victor was the first to come to America with my great-great-grandmother Maria. They came here to find a better life and to get a better job. Victor had to do a lot of convincing before Maria was sure that she wanted to come to America. He had to promise that their children would know about their heritage. -
Vicente Encabo (Grandfather)
My grandfather Vicente Encabo got the opportunity to come to America when America became a commonwealth with the Philippines and he was was hand picked to come to America to join the U.S. army in 1940 being part of the Philippine special forces in . In America he fought in World War 2 and then came back to the Philippines where he lived and had a family of U.S. citizen because he wanted to stay close to his relatives. -
Guadalupe Domingo (Mother)
During the year of 1990 Guadalupe A. Domingo was on a mission to move to the United States from Guadalajara, Mexico. At around 3 o'clock in the morning Guadalupe was on a flight to Tijuana, Mexico along with her 8 brothers and sisters. When she got to Tijuana she spent the night and at about 6 o'clock in the morning Guadalupe and her siblings ran across the border. She wanted a better life because she wasn't able to get a job in Mexico and support her family -
Gerardo y Natividad (Parents)
My parents came to the U.S. to change their future. They came here on June of 1996. They cross the border with the coyote. My grandfather helped my parents with their luggage since he had a passport. They had a long journey with lots of danger and relief. In three days and two nights my parents were in U.S. soil. They only had ten minutes of rest every four hours. I believe my parents were strong so they never gave up. -
Elmer Legaspi (Father)
Elmer Legaspi got hired to be a sales manager for Coca-Cola in 1997. He worked from six to seven days a week. Heidi Legaspi was offered a job to become a nurse in America in 2003. We arrived to America in 2003. Elmer Legaspi became very homesick and when he would apply for a job he would be rejected. Elmer finally got a job in 2004 as a dialysis technician in San Francisco. With the money that Elmer received for working he helped Heidi Legaspi buy a "little pink house" in 2005.
