As I Walk Through Life
A Family's Struggle from the Azorean Islands to Africa
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This book reveals the struggle of my parents raising ten kids in a new country facing the dificulties of providing for the children and make sure they would have the chance of an education. I am one of the children and lived the struggle, these are memories that no one can take from me, one can not imagine stories like this, they have to be lived. When my children were growing up I used to tell them stories that I remembered of my youth, they would spend hours just listening to me and asking me questions over and over. As I was telling the stories I realised how important it was for them to know about me and the experiences I had gone through that's when I began writting a journal of my memories and sharing them with my brothers and sisters to either clarify them or to remember something that I no longer was sure of. After I got married I moved to the United States with my husband and my oldest son. I continued to write on my journal but I also needed to improve my English language so my children could read it some day. I went back to school and finished my MS in Training and Development. Since then many things happen in my life one of them was becoming disabled. I do live a full life with my sons and grand children and I want very much for them to learn about my amazing life.
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The story reveals the life of a family with ten children moving from a Portuguese island were life was peaceful and danger free to Africa and face an unknown culture full of hardship and starvation. Mom and Dad's courage to keep going and looking for something better, but there were times when better was a luchury and settling for just a way to survive and raise their children were sometimes the only option, moving from place to place facing the danger of the unknown and the means to survive.
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This book reveals the struggle of my parents raising ten kids in a new country facing the dificulties of providing for the children and make sure they would have the chance of an education. I am one of the children and lived the struggle, these are memories that no one can take from me, one can not imagine stories like this, they have to be lived. When my children were growing up I used to tell them stories that I remembered of my youth, they would spend hours just listening to me and asking me questions over and over. As I was telling the stories I realised how important it was for them to know about me and the experiences I had gone through that's when I began writting a journal of my memories and sharing them with my brothers and sisters to either clarify them or to remember something that I no longer was sure of. After I got married I moved to the United States with my husband and my oldest son. I continued to write on my journal but I also needed to improve my English language so my children could read it some day. I went back to school and finished my MS in Training and Development. Since then many things happen in my life one of them was becoming disabled. I do live a full life with my sons and grand children and I want very much for them to learn about my amazing life.