I say that my dad is a survivor I try to learn from him and I see him as a hero my dad name is Genaro he was born in Honduras in the big parts of poverty in Honduras. My dad was born in a family who was deep in poverty, my father could not go to school because he was too poor to go to school so he had to work also his parents thought it was a waste of time going when he could be making some money, he always wanted to go to school but he couldn’t he only went to third grade and stopped going because he had to help his dad maintain the family he would sell cigarettes and make some money or he would go work with his dad pulling sacks of potatoes in a cart. My dad would not have anything to eat some days and sometimes all he would eat was tortillas …show more content…
My dad has a really good personality he knows and takes values in many things as my dad got older he decided he wanted to drive the biggest car there is in the world so he leaned how to drive a 18 wheeler a big truck he was already driving huge trucks at the age of 17 he even needed to put pillows under and on his back so he can sit comfortable and see the road but soon the company manager started to look greatness in him my dad was making 8 thousand “pesos” (Honduran dollar) a week which was a massive amount of money at the time as a teenager he also was an excellent driver. My dad never settles for less he wanted to have a better life because even though he was earning huge amount of money he wanted a better life for his children so he came to the U.S and decided to learn another profession since being a truck driver meant not being able to be home for days or even worse weeks without seeing his children and that was something he did not want his children to go through he wanted to be with his children and teach them about life and