first generation
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Growing up education was of great importance
I always had to have the best academic performance
The most inspiring people I know
Always with me where I go
My mom and dad
didn't have the opportunities I had
To be the first,
What a wonderful thought.
To be the first in a family,
Oh how much has been fought
To achieve something my family has not.
I.
They tell me that I am so lucky to be Korean.
My friends pour their hearts out over celebrities that I cannot relate to
My parents tell me of traditions that I never took part in
Who I am
Am I my long Spanish name?
Or am I the tongues of those who cannot pronounce it?
[Can't I just call you Maria?]
Am I my full, curvaceous, petite body frame?
Embrace the new beginning,
being a first generation college student is going to war with no training
It is exciting yet sad
I’ll be the first of my family,
to get a degree.
While my parents are hard-working,
it’ll be different for me.
Finishing high school
I yell at you day after day, begging you to take this pain away. I ask you why you have allowed such things to happen to me but all I get in reply is an empty silence and my own sigh. I have been good I say, so why do this to me?
