Delfina

Delfina

Hi, my name is Delfina Cruz. I was born in 1971. I remember when I was ten years old. I lived with my family in a village named Jalpa in Mexico in a home of adobe with my dad, mom, three brothers and one sister. My father was a farmer who grew corn and beans, and we went to school. Then my father fell ill. He had rheumatism and we did not have money for the medicine. So I had to leave school after 6th grade and help get money for my family. When I was 13 years old I had to go to Mexico City. My aunt worked as a cook in a home and she looked for work for me. I worked in a home caring for two persons of old age. That was in 1985, but my father was still ill. He was diagnosed with diabetes. We were sad to see that. Only God knows why? But we kept working for the treatment. In 1998 I maried. I went to live in Morelos, Mexico with my husband, his family lived there. After that I had my first baby, a girl. When my baby was 6 months my husband decided to come U.S.A.because the economic situation was very difficult for us. It was a difficult separation. After one year my father died. In 2003 when my daughter was 4 years old I came to Minneapolis MN. with my husband, but I was sad because I left my daughter in Mexico. I was very sad. My most difficult challenge in the U.S.A is not speaking English. My dream is speaking a lot of this language. And to understand English and to get a good paying job. So I am now learning English. I most hope that in Mexico City there is a solution for the insecurity, and for the U.S.A to find out one solution to the Economic Crisis, and to generate more jobs and that in all the world there is not more war, and we live in PEACE. I dream for my family in the future that my children can do anything they want in their lives, go to University, and be good human beings, and spirituality in front of God.

[|Jalpa, Zacatecas, Mexico]