Influenced by my family, my background and everything around me, I was born into a family that is the first generation to arrive here. My grandmother and parents, along with other relatives, moved here in search of better opportunities, as did those from other countries for the same idea. They started from scratch but they had a hard time starting, when I was little I thought it should be a bit easy, but for people who don't know English it's like starting from scratch, but they did well, they did well they did it I did it. When I was a child I thought everyone's family would be the same, just your average family like mine and yours. My life as a child was a carefree life, I didn't care much, except for things like doctors or the dentist, I pretty much did what an average child did, I thought we had a good life. When I went to my classmates' houses or met their families, I felt like they were average. I never thought that we as a family would have any problems in the world, I was wrong. My parents told me they had a good life in China where they grew up, my father told me they had a good life life continued back there. Why they came here is beyond me, my father told me that they had a pretty good income over there and that life was good. Why they came here puzzled me and made me wonder and so I asked, they gave me vague answers, but one of the reasons was because my parents were having their first child, who was my older sister. In China there is this policy, the one-child policy, only one child, because China is overpopulated. Furthermore, boys were more favored than girls. If they had only one sister, I wouldn't be born today nor would my little brother. I later discovered that a good reason for coming here was opportunity. As I grew up, in the transition period from child to teenager, I learned more about my family, their culture and background, and even some background on how they came to the United States in the first place. Back home, my parents certainly don't stay home for long and every day we weren't