Living in Connecticut
you realize you have opportunities that you only imagined as a child. It's not
like Connecticut has zero to offer but let's face it, it sucks. The great
thing is job opportunity and you can take a short drive or train ride to NYC or
Boston two cities people will never get to see or only dream of seeing.
Sitting on the train on my way to NYC makes me feel like I'm in a movie. My parents and siblings may never get to do this. Sitting here reminds me how fortunate I am. I have a connection to NYC that is like having a secret crush.
I was in 7th grade when I decided that someday I would escape from my crazy ice in California. I was in a class for children who did well in school called AVID. This programmed opened the eyes of children whom families have never been to college, traveled or we're migrants. They would teach us things out parents did not know like write a check or a letter. In addition, the class showed us that there was another world.
We had an assignment to pick three colleges we wanted to go to. Colleges?! Wow!
I had no idea where to begin no one in my family had ever done that. My plan was to find 3 places that my mother could not find me at. Berkeley was my first choice but it was not far enough. Second choice was a college that would help me go abroad I choose San Jose state. Last I came across New York City there were some many schools. I decided to Google the city itself. It was beautiful. So many lights, buildings and thousands of people no one would ever be able to find me. I would start over. Like an ant in A Bugs World, I would be just another person in search of an adventure. I had been enchanted.
Senor year in high school when it was time to apply my mind had changed. With the way things were at home I had to apply somewhere near home in case things got worse, you know. I applied and when I told my mother she said “you can't leave me" "you have to stay forever."
In my mind I said "hell no." She did it she left one day leaving me with her responsibility.
Years later I moved to CT, never thinking I would be close to NYC. I don't know if I'll ever move there. I don't know the future. I do know that whenever I get on the train to visit NYC it's like a movie. It's like a fairytale. Like sitting in a room and watching a projector. All the images, all the buildings I get lost.
Sitting on the train on my way to NYC makes me feel like I'm in a movie. My parents and siblings may never get to do this. Sitting here reminds me how fortunate I am. I have a connection to NYC that is like having a secret crush.
I was in 7th grade when I decided that someday I would escape from my crazy ice in California. I was in a class for children who did well in school called AVID. This programmed opened the eyes of children whom families have never been to college, traveled or we're migrants. They would teach us things out parents did not know like write a check or a letter. In addition, the class showed us that there was another world.
We had an assignment to pick three colleges we wanted to go to. Colleges?! Wow!
I had no idea where to begin no one in my family had ever done that. My plan was to find 3 places that my mother could not find me at. Berkeley was my first choice but it was not far enough. Second choice was a college that would help me go abroad I choose San Jose state. Last I came across New York City there were some many schools. I decided to Google the city itself. It was beautiful. So many lights, buildings and thousands of people no one would ever be able to find me. I would start over. Like an ant in A Bugs World, I would be just another person in search of an adventure. I had been enchanted.
Senor year in high school when it was time to apply my mind had changed. With the way things were at home I had to apply somewhere near home in case things got worse, you know. I applied and when I told my mother she said “you can't leave me" "you have to stay forever."
In my mind I said "hell no." She did it she left one day leaving me with her responsibility.
Years later I moved to CT, never thinking I would be close to NYC. I don't know if I'll ever move there. I don't know the future. I do know that whenever I get on the train to visit NYC it's like a movie. It's like a fairytale. Like sitting in a room and watching a projector. All the images, all the buildings I get lost.
