Life Story of an Immigrant

This week was very interesting and very emotional for me. This is because I had the opportunity to find out a lot about my family’s history and how they came to Canada. In the “Leaving” section of my blog I indicated how my family came to Canada but I didn’t know their feelings and thoughts towards the whole situation. So this week I had an interview will my sister to found out her feelings towards that situation.

I was very interested in my sister’s thoughts and feelings about her struggles of being an immigrant in Canada and the struggles she had to face. At that time my sister was only a little girl, and she had to struggle to become a normal child, which never happen. Within the interview, I had to stop it a lot of times because as she was telling me her story, I could have seen the pain and hurt that was within her emotions and soul at that time. It brought me to the point where I starting crying because it was a very sad life that she went through. The part that hurt me the most was when she said, “I never had a childhood, I was fighting to make a better life for you and my own children”. All I could say was thank you. 

My interview was very emotional and hurtful because I was interviewing a family member.  It allowed me to respect my sister a lot more. As I was writing her story, a song came in my head; it’s called “Ghetto Story by Baby Cham feat. Alicia Keys”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZnY7J-7Tws

I personally love this song, especially Alicia Keys part because it basically shows the struggle that most children have to face just to survive and to have a better life for themselves and their future generation to come. This relates a lot to my sister’s life and what she had to do.

Sometimes I wonder why it is so hard to be a part of a new country.  Why is it so hard for the first generation? These are the questions that are still unanswered.