The Struggles of not be Able to Speak English

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Que dices no te entendo, (what is that I can not understand you); English was a foreign language to me. I would just goof off at school because I didn’t know how to speak and write English. I will just speak Spanish to my teachers, friends, and my parents. I notice that I wasn’t going to get far in life if I don’t spoke or write the language that I’m living in.
When I first got here in America I was an immigrant, and I didn’t know anything about reading and writing in English because I only went to school in Mexico for a year. Once I arrived in the United States I was shock in seeing everything different from Mexico, and it was as if I had arrived in a different world. My parents brought me here so that I could have a better future and in order for that to happen I had to go to school. From the first day kindergarten I knew that I had to have an English class, but it seemed harder then I thought. Also I knew that in order to fit in I needed to be capable of understand and speak English well enough so that I can understand and communicate with my teachers and my classmates.
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