My Life

My name is Surayaa. I was born in November 1998. In a small island called Trinidad and Tobago. I traveled to the U.S.A at a young age, with my sisters and my mom by that time my dad was already there. So here is where it gets all sad. My dad is a alcoholic and well my mom doesn’t really care. Being so young living in a world where there is so much violence and troubles where hard. I never stayed one place. My family would always move from house to house cause they could never pay rent. Every time my dad would come home drunk he would fight with my mom and I mean literally fight. Where my mom would end up in the hospital sometimes. An it was a everyday thing with the drinking. So let’s jump into when our house caught on fire and my sister and her husband left me a 8 year old with my new born nephew alone in the house. It was winter time and our upstairs neighbors kept a candle lighting and it fell on the floor. It was only me and my baby nephew alone home. Lucky there was a next door neighbor who was shoveling the snow from her driveway and saw the fire and came to help us. My mom said she saw the fire from the train station and all the fire truck going into that road and she ran to the house and my dad said he saw the fire trucks going into where we lived but he was drinking in a bar so he didn’t care. Luckily me and my nephew where safe. An I thank the lady who saved us. What a winter that was. So my whole family got split up me with my mom and my middle sister and her family with my dad oh and my older sister she is married with kids. She was living far away at that time. Me and my mom never stayed one place. My dad let us stay with him in his apartment and this is when I turned 15. My dad was living alone so he said we could stay with him. My dad and mom went to work and I want to high school where I would get bullied all the time for not having nice things. An I got in a lot of fights cause the kids would pick on me until I couldn’t take it anymore and I started to fight back. That is where I started to become something I never wanted to be. I was introduced to a guy who then became by boyfriend for 3 years and it was hell but that’s a other story I will be telling. I became so unstable I was doing drugs and drinking a lot and then I dropped out of school. Me and my mom got kick out of my dads place so did my dad because they wasn’t paying rent. My dad become homeless and my mom found a place a 1 bedroom for me and her. Everyday her boyfriend would come over so I wouldn’t have a place to sleep. I would have to call and ask if I can stay with someone for the night. An this happened until I turned 18 I found the love of my life my boyfriend of almost 4 years now he took me in and found me a job and helped me fix my life. That’s when I moved out living with my mom and I packed my things and left. My boyfriend that I am with today made me a better person showed me what love is and I’m happy I found him.

This is part of my life story.

Surayaa s