My Life
Nelson Sankara
My name is Nelson Sankara. I was born in Ivory Coast in West Africa. Ivory Coast is one of the famous countries in West Africa. I was born in a little city named Marcory. When I was young, I called my uncle dad because when I was born, two months later my dad came to the United States of America. I first met my father when I was seven and it was when my family left Ivory Coast to go to my country. I thought Ivory Coast was my nationality, the country where my father came from. The country where I’m from is Burkina Faso, also a country in West Africa where my relatives came from.
When we got to my country, it was not too difficult for us because Ivory Coast and my country have the same national language. The only problem was the school. It was a little different in Burkina Faso. The school was more difficult. I was forced to go back and start everything at the beginning because I was not too old. After a few years, I was already adapted to the country, still speaking my language, and got friends at the school and at home too.
Thinking about my country sometimes makes me sad because of all the good times that I had with all of my friends. I still remember like it was yesterday all the good times with my people, playing soccer with them. In Africa, I dreamed to come here, but now it is the inverse because it is not like I thought. What I thought was that my life was going to be more fun and better. I mean my life is better because I have a better education, but it is not more fun that it was back home. The good thing is that Philadelphia is like my third home after my country and my birthplace. My life changed when I got here because back in Africa, school was not like that for me. I didn’t like to go to school because I was always trying to get money, and if I was going to school, I couldn’t work after that. But here is different. I could go to school and go to work after school. So I can get something to put in my pocket for myself so I don’t have to ask for it from my parent.
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