Brian NajarroCOMM 115

11/22/11

From NJ to Guatemala and back

o First five years in New Jersey

Twelve years in Guatemala

Back in the US

Outline

o I was born in Newton, New Jersey (Northwest) on November 7, 1988.

o Born of a Ecuadorian mother and Guatemalan father that met in NY.

o I lived there for these first 5 years.

o Attended the local St. Joseph’s elementary school.

o At the age of 5 my father decided we were moving to his homeland, Guatemala.

First 5 years in New Jersey

Twelve Years in Guatemala

Guatemala is located in Central America, bordering Mexico, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador. The southwest coast rests along the Pacific Ocean, and the eastern shores nestle into the Gulf of Honduras between Honduras and Belize.

Guatemala is about a country about the size of Tennessee.

Twelve Years in Guatemala

I lived in a small

Town calledEl

Progreso, Jutiapa.

http://www.munielprogreso.gob.gt/

Twelve Years in Guatemala

Twelve Years in GuatemalaDriving into El Progreso through the

Calzada el Bosque.

Twelve Years in Guatemala

Climbed el Cerro de Suchitan (6699 ft)

in September of 2006.

“La Piedrona”

Back in the U.S.I moved back to New Jersey literally the day after I graduated form High School in Guatemala (2006).

I left the country without telling anyone at all that I was leaving to probably never come back (personal reasons).

Even though I was coming back home, I left the world as I knew it for the last 12 years behind.

It was without a doubt, one of the hardest and saddest moments of my life so far.

Back in the U.S.I am currently studying at King’s College, in pursuit of a Spanish

Major and a Mass Communications minor.

I'm proud and thankful to have been born in

America, but Guatemala and it’s great people made me the person I am today.