Personal Narrative: Mid-City Near City Heights

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Yasin Jama Professor Lucero English 49 June 24, 2015 City Where you’re from defines who you really are. The environment you grew up in establishes your character. I grew up in Mid–City near City Heights. It’s mostly a low-income high minority populated community. For me, it was one of the best places on earth. Reason being, it made me feel proud with what I’ve become. Everyone there was just like me. The community I grew up in defined me in a lot of ways. It has helped me learn new cultures and traditions, be more understanding and humble with life and its situations, and playing sports. This is what defined me growing up in Heights. First off, culture is very powerful. It determines many things about you such as what you eat, how you speak, what your beliefs you believe in, what clothing you wear, etc. It is the invisible bond that ties different people together. My community was populated with different people from different places. From Serbia to Kenya to…show more content…
Especially in my community, it helped me establish friends and was a great way to kill the boredom. Soccer was my favorite sport. Me and around twenty other kids in my neighborhood would play soccer in my complex parking lot. Not only was it fun, it was a great activity that kept us away from the bad stuff in our community. Playing sports, preferably soccer, helped me the build confidence I needed to try out for competitive soccer teams around San Diego. Sports were important where I grew up. If you didn’t know how to play a sport, you would have a hard time making friends. Almost every kid in my block knew how to play some sport whether its soccer, basketball, football, or even badminton. It has helped defined me because without sports I wouldn’t know where I’d be. It was one of the only things I was really good at. All that free time I had growing up could’ve been spent elsewhere if it wasn’t for soccer. And who knows where elsewhere would

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