The story how my life changed
The story how my life changed
By Junior Macias
The place where I was born and raised was El Paso, Texas. I also have family living there and in Mexico. Mexico is next to El Paso so you don’t have to drive long. To get to there from the U.S. El Paso is a big city and is most in the desert and also surrounded by mountains all around there. There are many things to do in El Paso even in Mexico, Since we live near the border of Mexico. To go across the border, It only takes 30-40 minutes to get to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The schools are kind of strict; the reason I say this is because the school of elementary and the middle school we would have to wear uniforms, but the High School you would wear whatever we normally wear. The teachers from school of El Paso are cool; they also help you study and help you pass the class requirements.
The bad part about El Paso is that over there the temperature is so hot in the summer that people mostly don’t come out in the afternoon. We most of the time come out when the sun goes down or when it’s not too hot. In the winter it gets real cold that you sometimes don’t feel like coming out. I wear a big coat to keep you warm especially when I would wait for the bus to school and be getting cold outside. It doesn’t snow very often only once in a while. My homiez and me sometimes go out to the pool so we won’t have to be home bored. Either go to the mall to cool off and look around and buy cloths or shoes. Sometimes when my friends calls saying there’s a party at his house I go to check it out, because you meet different people everytime.
Ciudad Juarez across the border of El Paso is a dangerous place to visit if you don’t know your way around places there. If you go to a neighborhood you never been, get out because if you have like jewelry or something they like, they’ll try to take away or kill you for it. Still today in Ciudad Juarez there are people in news TV either who are killing for drugs or for something stupid. If you go there, don’t go by yourself or you might get robbed or killed for something they think is valuable.
In El Paso there are ruthless gangs that will kill you for being there on side of their neighborhood or for revenge on taking one of there homies life. I have two stepbrothers that are in a gang called Aztec. Their names are Tommy and Charley. Tommy one night came home all stabbed in the stomach saying a group of people came and stab him and he came from a few blocks dragging himself home. We ask him to go to the doctor but didn’t go he just put soma couple of rags and went to sleep in his room. Charlie saw the person that stab Tommy in the stomach, at a stoplight and shot him and his family a shotgun. Now he is serving time but is getting out soon even dough my family wasn’t happy about that.
When I moved to Athens, GA with my family, I was in the second grade when I got here. We were living in some apartments staying with some family there. The apartments were called "Kathwood Apartments." Those days that I came to Athens, GA they weren’t a lot of Hispanics living in here. Athens also back then they didn’t have any Hispanic stores, car sale, nor restaurants. I didn’t know that much English so they put me in ESOL class in elementary to learn more English, because I didn’t know too much when I came to Athens, GA.
The things I miss about El Paso is that I have more family over there then I do here and I get to go to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico to buy thing since it is more cheaper value then united states money. Since I also got family living close by Texas, I could visit them more often then I do now. Over here I don’t have any families to visit, so I have to make friends. In school over in Texas is better because the teachers help you with tutoring and help you get the assignments done.
By Junior Macias
The place where I was born and raised was El Paso, Texas. I also have family living there and in Mexico. Mexico is next to El Paso so you don’t have to drive long. To get to there from the U.S. El Paso is a big city and is most in the desert and also surrounded by mountains all around there. There are many things to do in El Paso even in Mexico, Since we live near the border of Mexico. To go across the border, It only takes 30-40 minutes to get to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The schools are kind of strict; the reason I say this is because the school of elementary and the middle school we would have to wear uniforms, but the High School you would wear whatever we normally wear. The teachers from school of El Paso are cool; they also help you study and help you pass the class requirements.
The bad part about El Paso is that over there the temperature is so hot in the summer that people mostly don’t come out in the afternoon. We most of the time come out when the sun goes down or when it’s not too hot. In the winter it gets real cold that you sometimes don’t feel like coming out. I wear a big coat to keep you warm especially when I would wait for the bus to school and be getting cold outside. It doesn’t snow very often only once in a while. My homiez and me sometimes go out to the pool so we won’t have to be home bored. Either go to the mall to cool off and look around and buy cloths or shoes. Sometimes when my friends calls saying there’s a party at his house I go to check it out, because you meet different people everytime.
Ciudad Juarez across the border of El Paso is a dangerous place to visit if you don’t know your way around places there. If you go to a neighborhood you never been, get out because if you have like jewelry or something they like, they’ll try to take away or kill you for it. Still today in Ciudad Juarez there are people in news TV either who are killing for drugs or for something stupid. If you go there, don’t go by yourself or you might get robbed or killed for something they think is valuable.
In El Paso there are ruthless gangs that will kill you for being there on side of their neighborhood or for revenge on taking one of there homies life. I have two stepbrothers that are in a gang called Aztec. Their names are Tommy and Charley. Tommy one night came home all stabbed in the stomach saying a group of people came and stab him and he came from a few blocks dragging himself home. We ask him to go to the doctor but didn’t go he just put soma couple of rags and went to sleep in his room. Charlie saw the person that stab Tommy in the stomach, at a stoplight and shot him and his family a shotgun. Now he is serving time but is getting out soon even dough my family wasn’t happy about that.
When I moved to Athens, GA with my family, I was in the second grade when I got here. We were living in some apartments staying with some family there. The apartments were called "Kathwood Apartments." Those days that I came to Athens, GA they weren’t a lot of Hispanics living in here. Athens also back then they didn’t have any Hispanic stores, car sale, nor restaurants. I didn’t know that much English so they put me in ESOL class in elementary to learn more English, because I didn’t know too much when I came to Athens, GA.
The things I miss about El Paso is that I have more family over there then I do here and I get to go to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico to buy thing since it is more cheaper value then united states money. Since I also got family living close by Texas, I could visit them more often then I do now. Over here I don’t have any families to visit, so I have to make friends. In school over in Texas is better because the teachers help you with tutoring and help you get the assignments done.
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