Pedro Reyes

         Growing is always a challenging thing, some have to do it sooner than others, but at the end you decide who you are. Growing up in single parent household with two sisters and no male role model to look up to was a tough thing for me. I had no one to teach me simple father and son things like how to throw a ball. From this I got determination that if no one was going to teach me this skill I was going to learn it by myself. I went to the park everyday I could to learn how to pitch and I was getting good at it. Until one day I was going home and saw my mom crying in her room.

          She was talking to my aunt that she didn’t have enough money to pay the rent and feed us plus buy us clothes. From this day I learned that I had to do something to help her so, at the age of ten,  I got a little job in a grocery store helping out and got only got paid 50 dollars a week but these 50 dollars helped me, help my mom in her daily struggle. From this point on I have worked from job to job trying to help my mom as much as I can. It was a hard choice leaving your friends and childhood behind but I decided that my mom needed me to grow up an fast.

           I am grateful to have had the childhood that I had and to come up in a single parent home. This taught me to be tough and to be determined to be someone better than I was suppose to be.

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