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How Our Lives Changes Since We Come
to the United States

 

Andrea Morales

 

One day my husband and me decided to come to the United States to have a better life and give a better life to our daughter. We never thought that it was going to be "easy" but we never thought that it was going to be so "hard."

In one way I think it was the right choice because here we can give a better standard of life to my daughter and I know that in the future she is going to have many more choices than she could have in our country. But in another way I think it was the wrong choice, because she is having a life without uncles, aunts, grandparents, for us is really sad when it's her birthday or is Christmas Eve and she doesn't have any family to share those moments.

It is not easy to start life in another country when people speak another language and a totally different culture but we try to be part of this country every single day, and we try to be happy while we are here.

 


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About the Author
Andrea Morales, author of "How our lives changed since we came to the United States", is a student at the Mount Wachusett Community College Leominster Adult Learning Center. She is from Uruguay. She lives in Fitchburg with her daughter and her husband. She has been in the United States for six years and she expects to speak good English and continue her education.