I am Dora. I arrived here two years ago to look for a better future for my family, especially for my mom, my little sister, and for me to improve my life, to study, and work to get ahead. It really hasn’t been easy for me; life has hit me in the worst way, thank God I am standing.
It is not easy in the States. It is very difficult for all those who emigrate, mainly I have been through many things because I am in a country far from my family. I have had to live without my mother because since I arrived here my mother passed away and I have had to live without her. I have cried day and night because I was worried about her, but now I only have to be strong. Sometimes I have fallen but I get up because life and I have also heard many stories of people who are going through difficult times because here is very different from our country: we have to get used to different things, the climate changes, the food, the customs, we have to pay everything, the taxes, pay for everything we use, so even though I do not have a family (I only have a sister who also has responsibilities) sometimes I feel alone. A few months ago I suffered a very strong accident where I hit my arm and I was in the hospital, the car I was in was over, I was about to lose my life.
Anyway, many, many things have happened to me and then life here is working day by day. There are people who study and work, from school to home, from home to work and there are people whose life is work. There are many things in common, but the most difficult thing that has happened to me is not driving, sometimes I need to go buy food, go out for our purchases, and immigrants work in the shadows, they are afraid to complain and their human rights and fundamental freedoms are denied, but everything is possible in the hands of God because the true warrior does not give up the battle, he suffers, cries, laughs and does not turn back. If he falls, he gets up trusting that God will give him victory.
