Blog #1 Autobiographical

   My name is Diana Florez, i am 18 years old, i was born in Colombia and I stayed there until I was eleven years old. In Colombia I attended to a catholic school for more than five years we were only girls but I loved that school and I still have really good memories there.  When I was seven my father came to the Unites States and I stayed in Colombia with my mother and my brother. My mother did a great job raising me, she was a mother and a father for me even thought my father and stopped calling, we used to talk every other day.

  When I turned 11i was able to come to the united states to reunite with my father,. On august 31 of 2005 I came to New York for the very first time. It was one of the best moments I have had in my life; I still remember it like it was yesterday. It was the moment that waited for so long that when I saw my father again I could not stopped hugging him and telling him how much I missed him and loved him. Even thought it was a very happy moment I felt a little sad because I basically left my whole family in Colombia, my grandparents, aunt and uncles that were there for me and taking care of me.

      When I got here I met an uncle that I did not know her wife and my cousin, they were very supportive and try to make us feel good in this country in which we did not know anything. We started living in a neighborhood in which there were a lot of people from our country so my mother, my brother and I felt very comfortable and happy.  It was a very drastic change starting because none of us knew how to speak English, and it hit me really hard cause in school they put in a class in which everything was in an a language that I barely knew, I just knew some words that I learn in Colombia but there were  the basic so it did not really help that much. I started doing 6^th grade it was really hard at the beginning because I was not used to go to school with boys, in the school that I attended in Colombia was very strict and there were only girls since it was catholic.

    Those three years in junior high school went by really fast I met a lot of people and became friends with them that also were very supportive and help me a lot with the English.  After junior high school I attended to William Cullen Bryant high school. A lot people used to tell me that it was a bad school and I should not go there but my older brother graduated from there a couple of years before I was going to start my freshman year in that school, he never had any problem or anything so I just decided to go there and see how it was. i stayed there my four  years of high school for me it was a good school, the teacher were excellent of course there are exceptions and people you do not get alone with but I think everywhere you go nobody is going to be the same and everybody does not have to like you.

   I finish high school this summed 2012, I graduated with an advanced regents diploma and I am very proud of myself and  happy that my parents are proud of me because now I am a college girl just how they wanted me to be.  This is my freshman year in La Guardia Community College and it has been a new and fantastic experience