Marlene Autobiography

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Thoughts, Experiences, and Feelings.

Marlene Ramirez



TABLE OF CONTENTS

My Early Years......................................................................... ....1

My Life Now...................................................................... ..........4

My Future Life............................... ...........................................8

After The End....................................................................... ...13



Chapter I

My Early Years

My childhood was full of good and sad experiences. I was born in the Capital

of Mexico.

I just lived there four years; during this period I experienced the first sad moment

of my life. I had a cousin of my age; one day we were playing around a small pool,

the ground was wet, she slipped and falls down in the pool. We were almost three

years old. She was as my sister. She died that day and this event is still in my

memory. At age of four, we moved to another place to live. I already had ayounger brother whose name is Olaf. We moved because my parents had planned

to leave us with my grandparents, so they could come to the United States. They

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wanted to work and save money to build or buy a house. Of course they did it. In

this period of time however my parents weren’t with me, it was a great time in my

life. I lived in a small town, and I spent my time with all my cousins there. We likedto go to the river, rode horses and create all kinds of games or tools to play. We

did not need money. We didn’t know about new toys or TV programs. We felt free

as birds. We played with corns, leaves, spiders, sticks, stones, everything that the

nature can provide us. I loved this time of my childhood.

I started to go to school at the age of five. I really liked, and I think is still likes me.

One day, there was a performance at school, and I had to dance with a boy. My

relatives and I remembered that. When I had to dance, I just started crying, and I



didn’t move. The boy was very sad. After two years, my parents came back. It was

an exciting moment because I knew they were my parents but I had forgotten

their faces and their voices. I was a child but they had reached their goal. Wewould have our own house in a beautiful city. We moved there at the beginning of

the year, so I lost a year in school, and I had to start the same course again.

When I was eight years old I got a throat infection. I was in the hospital for a week.

I was unconscious 72 hours because the virus in my throat went up to my brain.

The doctor told my mother that I would not survive, she cried and cried.

Something unexpected happened, I woke up. Everybody was happy. I didn’t know

what had happened until my mom told me. I always had somebody to play, I had



food, toys. I didn’t suffer about that, and it made me happy and it gave me a

happy childhood. The end of my childhood was the saddest time. My parents

owned a grocery store. One day my father encountered some thieves. They tookthe money from the store and shut my dad with a gun. I wasn’t there I had gone

downtown with my mom. When we came back, we saw the police, but not my dad.

An ambulance took him to the hospital. That night my dad died. I was thirteen

years old, and my brother eleven. Then our lives changed. These good and sad

experiences were easy and hard to take but they made me happy and strong. I will

never forget them.



Chapter II

My Life Now.

My life has been full of unexpected facts. My present life started when I came to

the United States.

I had lived in America since I got married, that means I had lived here for four

years. I met my husband in Mexico. He was working near to my mom’s house

when we met. After six months we met he decided to move to America, I couldn’t

come with him because I was studying. So we decided to wait until I got my



degree to get married. When I came here I didn’t know how my life here would be.

I left everything, my mom, my brother, my friends, my job. Life here was

unexpected because we had to encounter many brick walls. For example, themost important was our legal status, then the language and the culture. When I

started to work I was scared because I had to speak with people the whole day, I

understood but I couldn’t speak. Many times the customers got mad with me

because I couldn’t understand everything or answer their questions in a proper

way, but my boss just told me “don’t worry someday your English would be

better”, and he always encouraged me to continue. While I was working at the gas

station, I got pregnant. Now my daughter is two years old and I’m pregnant again,we are thinking it will be a boy.



I quit my job because my husband started his own business in auto glass

replacement, and he needed someone who can stay at the office, then that’s my

job now. I have worked with my husband for eight months. Since I started to workat the office, I have had some unexpected moments. One day while my husband

was driving to the shop, he was caught by the border patrol. This was a very sad

and impotent moment of my life here. We didn’t have enough money to pay his

crossing and also just my husband did the job. Then for a week we almost didn’t

have work, but thank God my husband came back the next weekend. It happened

a month when my husband crashed into a parked car. The owners called the

police, and they called the border patrol. Something unexpected happen at thistime, they didn’t take my husband, it was unbelievable. Well his residence is in

process because his mom is a citizen, but he is still illegal here. At the same time

that I was working, I started to go to school and I really liked it. My goal is to

improve my English skills. Now they are better than a year ago.



And also I need to improve because as an office worker I am taking phone calls

the whole day, and I have to call our customers, or read letters, reports,

suggestions, etc. Last fall I almost finished level 7 at CLC, but I had some marital

problems, so I had to drop out. During this time my marriage had too manyproblems, it was one day fine and the next no. fortunately we fixed everything and

my marriage is still alive. I come back to school this summer because I want to

continue at a higher level. About my job I’m better than eight months ago. In the

beginning I didn’t know about the vocabulary replacement glass on cars or even of

cars.



Now I know more about makes, models, give an estimate and look for parts. I talk

with many people and they understand me. My husband says that he is proud of

me. I feel happy here and with the things that I do, but I still miss my life in

Mexico. The most that I miss is my mom and the food; specially my mother andaunt’s food. I feel a little bit of guilt because my mom can not see her

grandchildren grow up. I know she would be happy to take care of them and she

would give them a lot of love. I know one day we will go back. Certainly my life

has had changed and with all the unexpected times I am really happy here and

with the things I have, and I do.



Chapter III

My Future Hopes and Dreams.

I am planning my future life, and I think it will be exciting and happier thanit is now. Right now I am living in the United States with my husband and my

daughter. We own a business. It doesn’t give us too much money but it is enough

to stay here.



We don’t own any house or apartment. We only have the investment in our

business and for us that means a house in Mexico. Since my husband was caughtby the border patrol, we have thought to go back to Mexico because we are not

free in this country. We only drive to work and back to home, and that is not a

good life for us. So we will wait until I give birth to my new baby to sell our

business and go back to Mexico. We will use that money either to build a nice

house or start my husband’s welding shop. Our personal or family goals are built

our house and enjoy all the places and good things of my country.



Also I will be returning to my career. I am an accountant. I really want to work

doing that. Then I will just need to take a few new courses because when I camehere some new laws and accounting methods began. I would like to work in a bank

that is my personal goal. Those goals are for my immediate future life or for the

next five years.

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But for my life in 15 years I will ponder my hopes and dreams. Of course I won’t be

in the United States I will be in Mexico enjoying my family. In 15 years my house

will be finished. It will be in a city near to “the eternal spring city”. It will have apool, a colorful garden, and three or four bedrooms. It will not need electric energy

at all because we will be using solar energy too.

My husband and I will be working, and sometimes we will be traveling to other

cities or countries. At this time my children will be teenagers, they will be

attending middle and high school. My daughter likes to dance, so maybe she willbe taking some dancing classes or will a good dancer already. If my second child is

a boy, he will be playing soccer. It depends of what he will like to do. Anyway I will



help them with their goals and dreams to get a really good life. About the future

for my country, I hope it will be better. My country is a very good country but all

people have to work together to become better. The government will beconstituted for people in my generation, and we know that our country needs

change. We will have better schools, more jobs for everybody, less unemployment

and a better economy. I know my future life depends of how my life is now. I will

work hard to get all my dreams and hopes come true, and have an exciting and

happier future all the rest of my life.



Chapter IV

After The End.

The end will come when God has decided to come. I won’t be ready, but I

want to do as much as I can. In my country everyone believes in God. We believe

that the end of our lives on the Earth is just the beginning of life with God.

When someone dies we have a kind of big party. Everyone who knew the

deceased is invitated to come at the house to share his or her last time with us.

Everybody prays for his/her soul, and in this way we believe that God will be

receiving him/her in his kingdom. In my opinion the afterlife is just some days

after death. In those days you can go to the places that couldn’t go in your life. We



can see the people; alive or dead, that you want to see again. Also you can listen

to what people think of you and know if you did the right things. I know that just

God knows when I will die. But I hope it will happen when I will be old enough tosee my children with their own family. I would like to be remembered as a hard

worker because that will mean I always tried to do my best and reached all my

goals. I am sure that my children would remember me as a loving mom, because I

like to talk them, kiss them, and spend as much time as I can with them. About my

husband, he will remember our fighting to stay together and also he will be

waiting for the day I would come back for him. We made an agreement, whoever

dies first has to come back for the other, because we want to be together afterlife

too. Some advices that I could give are:

• Life is wonderful, so we have to be happy.



• We need to have goals to know what we have to do.

• Love and respect yourself, and love and respect the others.

• Never give up when you want to do something, it will be hard and take time, but

the result is the best taste.

• Do what you want to do, not what others tell or want.

• Don’t follow the crowd.

Anyway we need to be happy now and try to be successful. It will give us a great

ending.

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