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June 14, 2002 was the special day that I came into this earth, I don't remember anything about that day, but I know that I made my family happy for just being there. This was a good day for me and my parents, since I was my mom's first child and my dad was thrilled to take care of me and teach me all of his cooking skills alongside my stepbrother and my stepsister. I suddenly became my grandma's favorite grandson, and I was happy with that, but my aunt was a little jealous about it. I was cute.
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On this day something very unfortunate happened, my dad had been killed in a car accident. I was a year old at the time, I don't really have any memories with my dad since I was too young to be conscious about what happened around me. This really affected me growing up since I always wanted to see my dad and talk to him, it got to the point to where, on kindergarten, I called a group of friends to get together on the corner of the patio and we just started praying. All because I told them to.
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My mom and I used to go to my grandparents house almost every weekend, this didn't sound so bad until I realized that it was almost a 3 hour trip to a town on a mountain, and for a kid my age that was an eternity. Back then I didn't know how important it was to spend as much time as you can with your grandparents, so I never wanted to go. But one day I met two of my best childhood friends, and everytime I went back, we played a bunch of games on my xbox 360, we beat a lot games, it was fun.
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I was in third grade at the time and I still remember my teacher calling me out because I was slacking, but I was too focused about being a big brother. I've always been an only child until now, I had to think about my responsibilities more seriously but I also had to become a better person overall so that I'm a good role model to my sister. And when that day came, when she was in mom's arms for the first time, I felt like something in me changed, I felt the need to protect her from anything.
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It was my 3rd grade year when my spanish teacher came up to me and told that I looked like a famous artist and that I should perform at the special event that she's preparing. I had no idea who she was talking about but of course I said "Ta bien" which is basically "ok sure". I was excited to try this because I had never done anything similar to this. Surprisingly I wasn't scared at all, I just remember being sure of myself and excited to perform, it would be great if I got those traits back.
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My mom told me that we were going to celebrate my grandma's birthday in a special way, I didn't really pay much attention to how she said special. Turns out that my family had a plan to go to a resort and celebrate her birthday there. It was really fun, I got to hang out with cousins, uncles and aunts that I didn't see often, we even did a special dinner for that day, it was amazing. I just had to sit for 4 hours in a car with my mom and grandparents, but we got there safely. It was a blast.
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Back in my day I was one of the best soccer players in my grade, or at least good enough to make it to the team. Now don't get me wrong we weren't a bad team, the other team was just better, we lost the first game and that was it for my career at being a player for the school's team. The worst part was that we had to attend the ceremony where they give out the trophies to the first 3 teams, I remember that my coach was as salty as a salt and vinegar chip. I think we could've played much better.
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It was the day that I thought of as a dream, never to actually happen. At first I didn't want to believe it, when my mom told me the news my first reaction were tears. She thought that the news would make me happy but all I could think about was losing all of my friends that I've made in the D.R. .When my uncle took me, my mom, and my sister to the airport, it felt like I was leaving all I ever knew forever. I've traveled to the U.S. before but for a maximum of 30 days, but this was different.
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My first day of school was something that I thought I would never have to go through again, but I had to adapt to my new life. Thankfully the school was close enough to take a walk there, but I wasn't ready for the cold weather when it first arrived that year, I never wore a coat because my pride wouldn't let me. "I've never been cold in my life, I don't need a coat." I said, until I just gave in and started using coats even though I thought it looked dumb on me. I made a lot of friends there.
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It was my first time going back to the D.R. since I moved, I was nervous. Because of the plans and stuff that we had to do over there we didn't have much time for me to go and meet my friends. We had to stay over at my grandma's which was 3 hours away from where I wanted to be, my mom knew but she couldn't let me go alone to the capital city. So the only option for me to get any extra time with my friends was to go with my uncle, but I was never away from my mom during the trip, so I didn't.
