Personal Narrative: My Suffering Journey

After completing a long, and suffering journey of high school, I thought I was just starting a new chapter in my life but as always life can be unpredictable and can change everything in blink of an eye. i have never imagined that in my 18 years of my life i would face many adversity. Everyone endure some sort of pain and obstacles in their life, but it takes a few to overcome these adversities. My challenges have tested my strength, my academic, and my faith.

One word to describe my past academic experience is unbearable. My personal life gravely affected in my academic spectrum. The constant battle between school, and home was like a sharp knife stabbing me multiple times and every time the pain felt worse. Growing up I never really complained like most kids because in my society a woman’s cry is meaningless, it is the voice of a man that matters. I was eight years old when i started being molested by my friend’s father. This is gone on till the end of 9th grade when I finally cried

and scream out for help for the first time. Times like this you stop believing yourself, and start question about everything. I barely could focus in school without thinking about what that monster did to me. The man who ruined my life walked away unharmed. Where was the justice and fairness? Of course, there is no justice in a women’s life. At this point, I wanted to fight through this and become a voice for other girls. I began a small group called, “The voice of a strong women”. It means everything that I stand for.

Every since i moved to maryland, there was one thing that kept me here and strangely it is University of Maryland; College Park.

It was the first thing that caught my eye. It is a dream of mine that one day I could be walking around that same campus that I been wanting for so long. Last year, I was part of the Maryland Ascent Program, and words can not explain how grateful i was to be able to meet some amazing people, MAP made me want to go to UMD even more. I just saw myself a part of a big family. Their guidance, and helped me through my application process and I got accepted into the summer transitional program (STP). I was just one more step closer but unfortunately, my dad got into a serious car accident and my parents have been struggling financially. There was nothing I can do so, I put aside my dream for my parents. Times were very hard for me these couple of months but, my motivation and hardwork to go to University of Maryland had kept me going and I hope it will

prevail.