My first burger

Fast Food

I was born in another country, in a small town so fast food was never really part of our culture. My mom would always cook something fresh for us; we were used to eating pure homemade food almost every day.  We would rarely go eat to a restaurant, and even if we did it would be something that was fresh. We didn’t have any fast food restaurant in our town; in fact I have never been to a McDonalds or any kind of fast food restaurant until I came to this country. I can totally see the difference between my hometown and the style of living here in the U.S. Here, we live a really fast pace style of living, and logically the easiest thing to do for most people is to just drive to a drive thru where you now you can get something in less than five minutes.  I still remember the first time I had a hamburger from McDonalds, I must say that it was delicious. We were on our way to my uncle’s house; we had just got here from Mexico.  I remember I was tired after being in a bus for almost 38 hours, we stopped somewhere near San Diego to have something quick since we were all super hungry. That’s when I was first introduced to McDonalds; I remember telling my uncle to get me a Big Mac. Can you imagine the feeling of trying this tasty looking hamburger? I totally loved it specially their fries, I thought they were just delicious.

Fast food became part of my culture, especially because I got a job at a McDonalds when I was a junior in High School. I would literally eat McDonalds every single day at work since I would work six days per week. I worked there for two years until I graduated from High School, so for two whole years I ate McDonalds. At first I would always get Big Macs or double cheese burgers, but I got tired of it. I knew that eating fast food was not healthy at all, but it was kind of addicting and convenience. I still consume fast food every now and then, but rarely go to McDonalds anymore. I usually go to subway, especially because there is subway right across work. But, since a couple months I being trying to pack a lunch to work to avoid eating out, I don’t think is a good habit to eat that much fast food, but I know that sometimes we have no other choice because we are always running from one place to another and don’t have that much time in our hands.

 

Summary of my life

    I was born and raised in Mexico until the age of 15. I come from a family of six, two older brothers and my twin sister. I am the youngest of the family since I was born twenty minutes after my sister was born, the funny thing is that my parents didn’t know that they were having twins, so they were kind of shock when I  showed up. My childhood was somewhat difficult because you can say that we were raised without my dad because since I was born he would always come to the U.S. to work. He would only go back for 2 or 3 weeks during the whole year and there were times where he would take longer to go back. I remember I would always see my friends with their dad and this was something that made me sad. I was already used to only see him for a short period of time, but then finally after like 10 years he had requested for residency for all of us they approved it. So at the age of 15 I was forced to come to this country, I remember I was not happy at all even though we were going to finally be all together. I remember coming into high school, I really hated it. I just wanted to go back to my old friends, my old school. Little by little I started making new friends; the only hard thing was the language. I remember I would get frustrated because I didn’t understand a single word at first. There was always that one person who would always make fun of you when you made mistakes trying to say something. So, for the most part I would just go, do my work and I would rarely talk to anybody. I finished high school and decided to attend Oxnard College. I was attending college when I started working a full time job. I started to do bad in some of my classes so I just decided to stop for a while. The idea was just to stop only one or two semesters. A mistake I made because these two semesters became four years until last semester that I finally decided go back to school.
    Currently I am still working a full time job, but trying to manage my time properly to try to do good in my classes. My idea is to get my AA and go from there, I know that education is the only key to get somewhere in life. I only have a few more classes to go to be able to graduate from college. Besides working and attending college I try to keep myself busy doing things that I love. Definitely something that I really enjoy doing is playing soccer, I have played soccer all my life and the other would be music. I can spend hours just listening to music, it takes my mind to other places. Whenever I need sometime for myself or just to relax I just put on my headphones and forget about everything.

    In the future I would like transfer to a four year university to get a degree that is going to get me a better paying job.