A school experience that changed my behaviour
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my school journey
I grew up in a single parent household. This may seem like a common occurrence in today’s world, but it was very difficult for me to grow up without having a positive male role model present in my life. For the past eighteen years, all I ever wanted was for someone to treat me like a son. I grew up in Holland, Michigan and I was not as good at speaking English compared to my peers. There was a language barrier between me and all my classmates for most of elementary school, but despite the challenges, I seemed to always overcome them no matter how many times I doubted myself.
When I began middle school my intentions changed from wanting an education to wanting to fit in with everyone else. I wanted to impress my classmates, so I began talking back to teachers, making fun of others, and making fun of myself. The idea of an education was blurred by wanting to be popular and cool around my friends. It was in middle school when I received my first glimpse at the racial burden that I carried as a Mexican-American. One day, on my way home from the boxing gym, a man stopped me and started questioning me. He said things like, “What’s in the backpack?” “Don’t think I don’t know about your kind and the gangs around here.” He proceeded to talk and the last thing he said was branded into my head: “Don’t think it will make a difference whether I kill you or not, either way you’ll just end up another dead Mexican.” For the longest time I believed that was what I was; just another Mexican destined to become a criminal. I began craving trouble and anything that came with it.
At first, I started to believe all of those things that this man said to me. Then one day I crossed paths with an old friend named Camden Mangelsdorf. Camden became a brother to me. His father and mother brought me into their home and treated me as if I were their own son. Still to this day the Mangelsdorf family provides me with an incredible support system, and Camden remains my friend, and I can confide in him with anything that is on my mind.