Simply Me
I’d like to say that I’m famous writer or actress living in New York surrounded by fans and paparazzi. Having a famous name seen on billboards, news papers or being heard on television. Living in a big house with shiny new cars and maids to do the house work. However, that is just what I’d like to say. Actually I’m just a small town girl with no famous name and no shiny cars, but here is a bit about my life so far.
My name is Luz Maria Acosta Esparza and a young couple by the names of Joel Acosta Luna and Maria de la Luz Esparza Acosta gave birth to me in Rome, Italy! Al right enough of that, I was actually born in Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Mexico on April 22th of 1992. I was their first born child and they took me home to Villa Hidalgo, Jalisco. A year after I was born they took me to the United States but we came back to Mexico shortly after. We were a very happy family, but that didn’t last very long. My mother gave birth to a baby boy who is three and a half years smaller than me whose name is Joel. Time passed and I started kindergarten, finished first grade, second grade and entering third grade is a traumatizing part of my life.
When I finished my second year of elementary school my parents decided to move for a period of time to the United States and to my surprise I was going to start my third grade in Phoenix, Arizona. So on that August I went to a bilingual school and things seemed to flow very well. English wasn’t much of a problem but because of my dad’s job, we had to move. We move to Fountain Hills, Arizona where I can almost affirm that I was the only Mexican in the entire school and being surrounded by non Spanish speakers was a nightmare. I cried and cried because going to school was really horrible but it only took me that year to fully learn English. I started fourth grade there, but once again we had to move, this time to Valencia, California. In California, it was really different, in my school there were basically just Latin students, but I didn’t have to worry about that anymore, I already knew English. I finished my fourth grade year there but once again we had to move, know to Midway, Utah. There I saw snow for the first time and I really love the cold weather. We stayed there for about a year and a half, and then we went back to California but this time to Indio and I started my teenager years. There I made really good friends that I am still in contact with. We then moved to the once again nice, snowy and cold weather that I like but this time of Colorado. I finished middle school there and yes, once again we moved and I started high school in Nampa, Idaho. However, we only stayed there for 6 months and then another big change in my life came. We were going to move back to Mexico.
Another traumatizing change was going to happen in my life that I didn’t want. I wanted to stay in the United States and start taking classes so that I could study medicine once I finished high school. But you don’t always get what you want and my dad made us move to Mexico. I started my ninth grade year in a middle school near my house and I had a lot of trouble with my Spanish. However, I quickly made new friends that helped me out. My family made me my quinceanera and although it wasn’t what I expected I am really grateful that they did it. A graduated from middle school and by that time I had lots of friends who taught me everything I needed to know about Villa Hidalgo. One of those friends is my now best friend Cecy. We have been friends ever since I move here to Mexico. I started high school and had lots of wonderful experiences in that stage of my life. I meet a certain special someone in my life now, my boyfriend Carlos. I graduated high school second of my class and was not so sure what career too chose. I wanted to be a doctor but I was scared that I wouldn’t be able to get into that career so I choose English language teaching. I did think about being a teacher, but I never taught of being an English teacher. However, this is the career that I am in now and I am going to do my best effort.
Well, we have reached present day and this is what I am and have done so far in life and I am grateful for each and every thing. Now, in college I have met very wonderful people, ones who have become new best friends like Monica and Kellcy. I love being surrounded by people that care about me and being able to meet lots of new people too. For the future, I would like to finish my career and star a new one. Recently I have been seriously thinking in psychology, but I still have a few months to think about that. For now, I want to enjoy each and every moment of my life, enjoy the company of my family, friends and boyfriend. After all you are only nineteen once and I can see the twenties near. So, I may not be a famous writer living in New York but everything that I am, I love and that is simply me.
