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My name is Geralda and I’m from Albania, where my family lived for almost 20 years before we moved to Greece. Albania is in Europe near to Turkey, Italia and Greece. Albania is a wonderful country, but it is a poor. Shkoder is the capital of the district of Shkoder, and is one of Albania's oldest and most historic towns, as well as an important cultural and economic center. We have a big castle. It’s a castle or a fortress/citadel can be discussed, fact is that Shkoder’s history started on this hilltop with the establishment of a Bronze Age settlement 4000 years ago. You can see the sea though and our castle. You can see many trees and one big church that we have in the middle of our city. Three years ago it wasn’t a touristic city, but in the last three years it became. Not too much but tourists are coming to visit our city because the heard that it’s an interesting city. It’s not a financial city.
My family is pretty small. There are three people in my family: my mother, brother and I. We are close enough. When my extended family gets together like mother, brother, aunts and uncles we have so much fun. We spend a lot of time all together only in vacations like summer or Christmas because we live in New York and they live in Florida. We all work and we don’t have enough time to see each other. I like to stay at home and talk. We are funny family though. We are cool. Either my grandmother is cool. We are open-minded. We are not like don’t get a boyfriend because you are young or don’t hang out till late. We don’t have those kinds of problems. My family (two of my mother’s brothers) is too funny we spent a lot of time teasing each other. First of all my parents are divorced. My mother is great lady. She is a strong dynamic woman. She doesn’t have problems like where I am or with who I am. When I was little she was so strict with me. She yelled at me all the time. But since I started growing up, she became so lenient. She is a workaholic actually. She loves to work. Her profession is professional seamstress. But here in the United States, she works as a cleaner in some offices and in the morning in the school’s kitchen. She says, now that I am young and I can work, so I’m going to work. When I’m old, my kids are going to work for me.(In a funny way). My father is in his own world actually. He is a nice father and he loves his children’s. He is workaholic too. He loves to work too. His profession is marble but he is working as construction man. He lives in Greece with his new family his wife and his son. Alfred is the perfect brother. His is like my father my brother my best friend. He works from a young age because my parents got divorced, so we needed somebody else to work besides my mother. My brother is 25 years old and we are so close.
My neighborhood was like a long path but we had our apartment and two more apartments next to ours. I lived in the capital of Greece in Athens. My neighbors were some old and young people. I knew everyone in my neighborhood. On my floor one couple of old people with their two daughters’ remember this couple because they loved me so much. Every day when I was coming home after school they were taking care of me. They were like my grandparents. Also in my neighborhood lived some of my friends from school and my uncle with his family. I like them so much because they were very good people and nice personalities... Only one lady and her husband were so evil. She lived downstairs and my house was above her. She complained all the time because she said that we made a lot of noise. So she was the only one that I didn’t like. One day this she was talking with my mother and she starts yelling at my mother because of us. The lady cursed my mother and she left. The next day her husband died. I don’t know why I remember this event but I think she cursed a nice person (my mother) and the next day she received the curse back from God.
This house was my favorite and I loved it. I was in love with this house it had three bedrooms, two balconies, one big hall, one huge living room. We had the kitchen and I loved this kitchen because it was one big room and inside the room we had two rooms. We had a dining area and the place for the refrigerator. We had the bathroom too, with a washer and driver inside the bathroom. We had a place that we put our clothes and stuff for different season. If I had the chance to buy it, I would. I don’t why but I love this house even now. I haven’t been back to it for 12 years. When my parents got divorced we left the house. And believe me I was sad more for the house than my parents’ divorce because I were so young to understand that my parents separated so I was sad because I lived the house. I really liked this house. I really had great time in this house. I have great memories, bad and good. One of the bad memories that I have from this house is when my grandfather lived there with us because he was so sick. He had cancer and the doctors didn’t give him many days to live. I remember the day that the ambulance came and took him to the hospital because he couldn’t breathe. And after few days he passed away. I also remember when my parents got divorce in this house. Those are the two bad things that I remember from this house. One of my good memories is that I always threw birthday parties, food, music, dancing and a lot of presents. All the family and friends around the living room many kids a big tree with many lights and of course so much food. Great memories that I’m never going to forget. Everything from this house reminds me specific events.
The most important person in my life is Aida. She is my uncle’s wife. She came in my life when I was 12 years old. I think of her often especially when I have difficulties and I want to talk to somebody, she is the one that can help me. The most important thing is that we can understand each other very well. She acts like me. I mean we have almost the same personality. She is five years older than me so we think about the same. She helps me think clear. She gives me advice for my future. If I have a problem she is the first person that can understand that I am not feeling good or that I have some problems. We see each other on vacations because she doesn’t live in NYC. She lives in Florida. We talk on the phone or send emails or text each other. We keep in touch because we love each other. She is like my big sister that I can say everything to her and she can help me with my problems. She is the only one who can understand me.
I came to the United States on August 4, 2007, two years ago. My mother my brother my two dogs and I. We came here because my entire mother’s family is here. Her brothers, her nephews, her mother, her aunts and uncles are here. So we came for them and of course for a better life. When I first came here I hate it. I came out from the airplane and I start yelling at my mother because NYC it wasn’t like what I was expecting. When you don’t live in the United States you believe that the United States is wonderful. And I came out from the airplane and the first thing that I looked it was the ground and how dirty it was. I thought that America it supposed to be so clean and so beautiful not like I saw it. There much garbage many different people and I felt so strange. I was waiting for the “American dream” from the first day. Actually I was sad too because I left my life back like friends, my ex boyfriend and some other important people. Now I’m used to it, but sometimes I want to run away from here. Sometimes I feel the pressure and I think that my head is going to explore from the stress. It’s different than my country though because in Greece the life is not like in N.Y. We are easy going not like oh my God I don’t have time and I’m working etc. Sometimes I love N.Y, but sometimes I hate it. Sometimes I missed my life in Greece and I m ready to go back, but I always stay here and try my best. I can’t say that I’m super happy with my life here, but I can say that the United States gave me so many opportunities like school and job.
I am planning to study interior design. CLIP helps me a lot with my English. It s five hours per a day, but that actually is really good because I need to improve my English. I learned how to speak to write and to read. The most important plan for me is to finish my studies. I don’t know what I’m going to do in my personal life because you never know what is next, but I want to finish college. I want to study interior design because always I liked to move my whole house and to fix it again. I like it and I believe that this major is for me. It’s important to me because when you have your diploma from the college you feel that you are an important person. You can do the job that you choose, and you can be happy because you chose it. I don’t know but I’m going to try my best. I have to work hard to get to the top.

Three questions about Michael Jackson

1) Why did Michael Jakson changed his skin color? No reasons to do it. He disgrace black people.


2) How his kids are white? He was black and everything on his organism was black.


3) If he feel bad about changing his skin color. If he believed that black people are going to hate him because of that.