My identity

Who I am,

 That a question that everyone ask to themselves once in a while, even at this moment I really dont know who really I am, but this are the things that I can assure that are part of me.

I am a human, that the term or name that was given in order to identify  our "race",

I am a Female which that the sex I fall under when if was born,

I am Kimberly Flores, that the name my parents decide to give me when I was in the womb of my mother, 

 I am a daughter, of two couple that had been marry over 25 years and counting , Ana Maria Flores Aldama born in El Paso Tx but grew up in Ciudad Juarez, and Jesus Manuel Flores Renteria who was born and rise in Ciudad Juarez but become a U.S Citizen. 

I am a the granddaughter of Maria Aldama, Dominguez the mother of my mother, and Angelica Renteria y Erazno Manuel Flores the parents of my dad.

I am a sister of 2 older ones and 2 younger one, Ana Karina Flores, Jacqueline Flores, Amerika Flores and Andrea Jessika Flores.

I am also an aunt  of a beautiful little girl, Angelika Ann Marie Flores HillHouse.

 I am a friend as well, of very interesting people 
I am a friend who has being defined has helpful, generous and responsible. 

I was born in El Paso which that what makes me fall under the " White" category  

but my roots are from Mexico which that is what would make me an "Hispanic". 

These two different categories of two different worlds but yet 

 that are neighbors, this makes hard for me to belong to a classification. 

I don't belong to just one, I belong to a new category, a new world that was born due to these two categories, which is a Latina or Chicana. 

My first language is Spanish 

Second language is English  

Which that makes me a bilingual  

I am a strong person who survive in a way the laughs of other due to my accent, even tho I was capable to speak more than one language, I would still feel less. I am a person who once fear to speak due to the fact that didn't wanted to be bully by others, I am the person who handle nicknames such as "beaner" or handle comments such as "go back to Mexico", even  if was born and grew in the U.S. 

  

I am a person who once feel that didn't belong anywhere but also, I am a person who dominate those feelings and become to a fighter. I am a fighter when its need to be. I am proudly a Latina/ Chicana who not only celebrates "5 de Mayo" or "16 de septiembre" but also celebrates 4 of July. 

I am a person who grew in a Hispanic environment and received a lot of love. 

I am a person who loves its family and works hard to see them proud. 

I am a person who learn to value education and trough that I learn to value different types of personalities, cultures and points of view. 

I am a person who has expectations to learn and to seek for new opportunities. 

I am a person who graduate form an Early College high school at age 18, 

I am a person who didn’t knew English, which self-steam was attacked into a person who already got its associate degree at age 18. 

I am a person who believes in fairness and have a view of accept everyone no matter their differences 

A person who is willing to give in order to improve someone life. 

These characteristics lead me to seek a career in Political Science with the purposed to help those that don’t have a voice. 

I am a person who hopes to have a successful future and once show the world how capable I am. 

I am someone who has a brown skin, which is also could be named, “Morena”, that put me into a certain level of stereotype of the society, 

Yes, I am someone different, but everyone is different in a way  

I am someone who has hope and determination, which with all the qualities and classification I fall under. I will always hold a bright future; these is who I am.