Enrique Gonzalez

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Autobiography My name is Karen Xitlali Hernandez, but I prefer to be called Xitlali (Cit-la-li). I was born on July 18, 2006 in San Francisco, CA. I am now 18 years old. I am the eldest of 2. My brother Enrique Gonzalez is 15.My mother's name is Veronica Gonzalez. She was born in San Francisco but is Guatemalan. My father?s name is Fidel Hernandez. He was born in Puebla, Mexico and immigrated to the United States when he was 18 yrs old. My parents were together, but never married for 10 years and separated in January of 2015. I took my elementary education at Spruce Elementary, which is located in South San Francisco. I took my secondary education at Parkway Heights M.S., which is also located in SSF. I had a difficult childhood, before my …show more content…

My mother and father always worked even before they separated so my Aunt and Uncle took over as our caretakers.I live in a 2 bedroom apartment and have to share a room with my brother and father while my aunt and uncle live in the other room so privacy doesn't exist in my home. My relationship with my parents is difficult, my father was never around much until now, but I don't really see him as my father but more of a friend and I only see my mother once or twice a week depending when she is available, but we still keep in contact outside of those days. During my K-12 school years, I made and kept a …show more content…

I realized that most of the people I cared about, actually didn't care about me because not once did they attempt to contact me. One of the biggest things I learned from this was learning to trust myself and putting myself first. I was always trying to get my friends and family opinions first and trust them. But I never actually got what I wanted, right? After high school I was going to go to Skyline college because that's where all of my friends were going and where my parents wanted me to go.I was going to study fashion and makeup because I felt that what suited me best but I never was sure or fully okay with any of those decisions. It wasn't until I moved to a different school where I learned that for the first time I wanted to continue school and I wanted to go to college as far as I could from all of my friends and make my own decisions. I felt that this would be good for me and it would be something totally different and unexpected for me, but I actually feel excited about my future now. I let go of the fashion and makeup industry and moved to actually doing something that I never thought I would love to do. I want to become a travel nurse and help people and also travel the world because what's not better than helping people and also getting to explore the world

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