Personal Narrative: Belonging In Arizona

Arizona’s a Desert, Yo Me: “Hey, did I ever articulate how I was incriminated for shoplifting? Therapist Dan: “The aforementioned is not in my transcriptions. What’s the significance?” Me: “The situation kicked off my anxiety of constabularies for starters.”

Hello my name is Johanth, I was born in San luis Rio Colorado, Sonora. At the age of 6 I was enough fortunate to move to San Luis, Arizona. Since a young age I’ve been very successful in mathematics. I’ve gone to cty at Seattle University and Roger Williams University. Also, I am a car enthusiast I love and enjoy learning and knowing specs about new cars, all types, from sedans to hypercars.

My home state is Texas, and a problem Texas faces is an overall mindset of systemic racism, sexism, and xenophobia. Texas is a very conservative state, thus many of the policies passed by our legislation are written at the expense of women and minorities. Although I might sound highly critical of our state government, I do not believe that these negative mindsets are deliberate attempts to put others down, I feel that it is simply an ignorance to the issues women and minorities face, and a lack of empathy. Ignorance is easily countered by thorough education. The easiest way to solve this is for us constituents of these politicians, to bring the issues that affect us to the forefront.

A life changing event that occurred was when I moved from West Virginia to Arizona. Which was a tremendous trip which took about two thousand miles,by driving. On our way to the desert my family and I stopped at campgrounds,resorts was memorable. It provided me with a new aspect of how truly large the world is. While stopping at campgrounds along the road to Arizona I was able to admire the scenes,explore the town metaphorically speaking.

Moving isn't easy to me and my family. I have moved from state to state and city to city but not found the perfect place to life. But my mom told me we are moving to Arizona. Can this please be the perfect place to life. We arrived to our house, the house wasn’t the biggest but i can deal with it.

Growing up in California, my whole life has been around farming and like many others, it’s how I make a living. It’s now been at least a year, living through the Dust bowl and many people have migrated to California with the hope of surviving this crisis. Keeping my crops has become a struggle and that's what most people including me depend on. I am lucky enough to be able to pay my mortgages even though I’m not able to keep the land with the help of family. It’s practically impossible.

I was raised in Arizona in the city of Phoenix. My Father used to work in a very small town call Cornville, Arizona, the town was about a two-hour drive from Phoenix. He would come down every weekend; sometimes he would stay for just the weekend and others the whole week. It was very rare that we would go visit just because any breaks that we had from school that were longer than two days, we would go to my grandmother house in Sonora, Mexico.

Several years ago, I found myself riding in the passenger seat of my family’s car, riding west towards Canton, Mississippi. At around four o-clock that morning, my mom had received a phone call from the hospital regarding her father, who had been admitted that morning after accidentally overdosing on his numerous medications. A few minutes later, we were on the road to Mississippi. When we finally arrived in Mississippi, there were several cars in my grandad’s parking lot. My mom got out, and told me to stay in the car.

October 23, 1947 9:30a.m. in Tucson, there I was just casually walking around, I couldn’t remember why I was there but all I knew at that point was that I was hungry. All I could think was where I was going to eat. So I just kept walking around till I had found something to eat.

The city of Las Vegas is one of the intercontinental entertainment centers with millions of visitors yearly, and place for the diverse immigrants seek various levels of careers. The diverse population differed by cultural belief, faith, and values, including language and lifestyle. We are exposed to many non-English speaking patients and families for health care delivery within the hospital as well as communitywide. Recently one of my new grads had been assigned to a twenty-nine-year-old young female with postoperative complicated abdominal surgery which was hospitalized for more than five weeks. The language barrier is so common and includes the nurses are expected to refrain from arguing, interrupting, or judging.

There are many great things about my state, Alabama. Today, I will name my 3 favorite things I love about my home. My first favorite thing about the state of Alabama would be our coastal shores of Mobile. I love the warm sand against my feet as the breeze waves through my hair. I love the sound of children screaming and laughing as they play, the seagulls flapping and screeching, and the waves crashing against the shore.

Growing up in Phoenix I remember having to bike to school in the morning and home at the end of the day. I would bike passed hundreds of people and judge them solely on how they looked. I never thought twice about it until one day when I was 14. I was biking home from school when I ran over the jagged spikes of a goat head thorns. They punctured my tires and slowly began to release the air pressure that was built in.

If you have a dream you and it’s what you really want and you are willing to work hard for it then you can achieve anything you desire. I had a dream that I achieved at a young age and it is one of the greatest moments in my life. Since I was 14 I had a dream of winning and making my mark in the APA history. In the APA pool league the road to Las Vegas is a long and hard fought path that only the strongest and most determined can achieve. I joined the league when i turned 18 and began me journey into what became the best experience of my life.

Growing up summer was a love and hate relationship for me. I grew up in a town called Palm Desert in the Palm Springs area in Southern California for all of my life. Summer there is not exactly typical in terms of “hot weather”. This so called “hot weather” might be various degrees different from what I know as hot.

My urban family of six plus a Wheaten terrier puppy, Rosie, are each involved in activities while expected to excel academically. My older vegetarian sister, Grace, ran on the varsity cross country her freshman year before breaking her leg. My younger brother Michael, is a Seido karate black belt and following my interest in robotics. Christian, the youngest member excels at soccer and Minecraft. My role involves often mediating between them.