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...I first got at United State of America I felt just Elena on the first line “ My Spanish is not enough” despite I was living in Miami (where you do not the English language to survive) my Portuguese wasn’t enough, because of the similarity to Spanish after a couple months I was confident to speak Spanish so in Miami I was doing just fine but then I moved to South Carolina, where I felt the need to learn English as quickly as possible. On the beginning I would done pretty much like Elena did “ take my English book and lock myself in the bathroom” I cannot really explain why I felt shame to be wiling to learn a new language but the truth is that I really felt ashamed. Like Elena I felt many times dumb and alone within two people talking in English. I also had the same experience with kids making fun of my accent and also my husband that even he saying that is so “cute” my accent I felt dumb. I believe that her children and my husband should had been a little more supported but I also understand that many times is hard from someone feel something that they never have been thru, my husband will never understand how I felt about my “cute” accent because he speaks English since he was little and same thing Elena’s children. Elena’s story is also pretty much like my mother-in-law situation, they came from Porto Rico when my husband was only six years old. He went to school and quickly began to speak English at home and his mother wasn’t a...