Personal Narrative: My Immigrant

My full name is Laura Lopez, my mother named me Laura since according to her it was the name that was in trend, I was born in Bogotá, Colombia in 2000. In Colombia the native Colombians are indigenous which we all descend from but as Spain had a colony in Colombia almost everyone has Spanish background, in fact my grandmother from my father’s side was Spanish but her family had been in my country for several generations even in the early 1800s, his father was indigenous and Spanish. Moreover, From my mother’s side, my great grandmother was a native indigenous from the Amazon in Colombia, her husband was Spanish and therefore my grandmother was both indigenous and Spanish and then married my grandfather also indigenous and Spanish. Consequently

My stepfather’s father was the first of the family to have come to Australia. My stepfather father’s name is Ramiro Espinosa just like my stepfather as it was a tradition in my country to give the same of the father to the first born son. my grandfather and all of his family are from Bogota, Colombia, he was born in 1935. Due to a conflict in Colombia which began around 1964 and made it an insecure country since the paramilitary groups and the guerrilla were attacking the government, my grandfather decided that it was better for his family to be in a more secure country. There was not a world event that affected my family but the conflict in Colombia was very violent, although it did not affect my family it was not safe anymore and the paramilitary groups along with the guerrilla were forcing people to join

The special item that my stepfather remembers is my grandfather’s camera because he loved taking pictures of Australia and made his own laboratory to develop the pictures. My grandfather’s earliest childhood memory was drinking coffee with his mother back in Colombia every morning. Back in those