Three Significant Events Before the Age of 14

The first significant event that I can remember is actually the one I was going to tell about my accident the day before the first-day of school. Because everytime I started school after it I couldn’t stop thinking about what had happened to me that first day, whe I was on the bike and all of a sudden I see this other bike coming at me. After the collision I found my self on the ground with my leg in between the tire twisted and broken. At first I did not feel any pain, but as soon as I tried to get up I started crying. Later in my childhood when I was in 3rd grade my dad got bitten by a balck widow which sent him to the hospital and had him in a coma for 2 weeks. This was the hardest 2 weeks of my life because my dad’s life was on the line, and all I saw was my mom crying and my grandparents consoling her. But the image that impacted me the most was seeing my dad laying in bed not moving at all. I always thought that my dad would always be with me, but then he seemed so vulnerable. Finally another significant event in my life was my parents decision to come to the United States. When I was 14 years old my mom and dad heard about a family member that had come to the US to work. Eventghough my dad had a very well stablished position in a contracting company , they decided that coming here would be best for me and my siblings because there were more opportunities here. This impacted me in a great way because I left all my friends cousins back home and I was coming to a country were I didn’t speak the language and did not know the culture.