Tuesday, October 9, 2012

When you look around you, and you see a diverse selection of people you seem to think or misjudge and say” I could never have something in common with that person”. And even though we may all be different and appear different there is one thing that all people have in common and that’s family. Family is what starts the foundation and generation of people. If we didn’t have ancestors and grandparents none of us would be here. My family in particular is very multicultural and out of the ordinary. My grandparents on my mother’s side couldn’t get married because of their races were different. My grandmother is Mexican and my grandfather is African American, Creole decent. They tried going to Las Vegas to get married but they refused to marry my grandparents. Some years later they had to wait to get a marriage license and had my mother a few years after. On my father’s side his parents married early and had a lot of kids. My father is from a small island in the South Pacific called Tonga, and he’s 1 of 15 kids. The one thing I love about my whole family is that I could sit here and literally type my full family history and make a family tree. I’m proud that I know so much and I know where I came from. I love my family unconditionally; I couldn’t picture life without them. My family is honestly the one thing that holds me together. When I feel like giving up I can always lean on someone’s shoulder and talk to them about anything. There isn’t one person in my family I can’t say I’m not close to. My family and I are so close we’re like the Kardashians. We’re around each other frequently and always do a lot of family activities such as camping and hiking. And even though we all drive each other crazy and fight, we would take a bullet for one another any day. My mother was born and raised in Oxnard so I’m around her family a lot, but as for my father his family lives in different states so I only see them once every few years. But I still maintain a relationship with my Tongan family everywhere. I may complain how much my family annoys me and how much they’re in my business I am very thankful I have a large family on both sides and I know no matter what they will always have my back.