Personal Narrative: My Education In Guatemala

My life has been separated into two geographic locations. The first one traces back to a small town in the mountains outside of Guatemala City, where I lived for sixteen years. Growing up, I was surrounded by poverty. I was lucky to attend school, but it was a simple concrete block building, with no windows, doors, or even desks. School was the best part of my life, because it protected me from the devastating conditions and violence that surrounded me.

For a time, I was hopeless. I thought about my present and my future as something inextricably tied to a rotten fate without opportunities for educational excellence. Regardless of the skill and intelligence that people have in Guatemala, poverty makes it impossible for them to actually use these potentials. As a result, my …show more content…
Even though water and food were always on our table, the extreme levels of poverty were seen outside my house. In my native country, the educational opportunities for the vast majority of women end after high school. As a sixteen year old living in a small Guatemalan city, obtaining a degree in higher education had never crossed my mind. Most girls my age were already starting families and settling in their own homes, and only the wealthy had the opportunity to attend college. The scale of social devastation in Guatemala also limited my access to health resources needed to manage a genetic disease that can potentially take my life. Sickness was not an option for me; it was strictly prohibited. My family lived with the minimum wages in which insurance was not in the list of bills to pay. Inside me I had dreamed about reaching financial stability through the access of academic and future career opportunities. However, the poverty in Guatemala resulted in dreams of a different life without the means to actually reach

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