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December 19, 2005 |
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Historia
FOUND by Ian Fowler
in Chicago, Illinois
I found this sometime in August of 2000. It was on a sidewalk here in Rogers Park, just off of busy Clark Street.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
I miss Chile
I think I wil go to Chile
to see my family.
(Hope you went back)
That's so sad. I hope she went back too.
This seems like the sort of thing they would make you write on the first day of an English (for non english-speakers) class.
Good for her!
poor thing. married at 16 years old :( this one is sad.
I live in Rogers Park now; not the greatest neighborhood...but I like the tall buildings and B 96 radio station also...
Why is it sad? She obviously LEFT Mexico to begin with. She wants to go back, she goes back, boom. Not that difficult. I highly doubt she was FORCED to leave Mexico. I doubt she'll be FORCED to stay in Chicago.
JessicaPC, I usually enjoy your comments, but this seems uncharacteristically harsh. I hope you're OK.
chicago es padre... tiene personalidad, no es como la mayoria de las ciudades bonitillas en usa aburridas.
pero como mexico no hay dos.
"I have 16 years old." I knew then that it was a Spanish speaker; she applies quirks of the Spanish language to her second language (though "historia" is a giveaway, too). There's definitely a sad beauty about it: I love this city and it's beautiful, but it's not Mexico.
Naila: Es cierto que no hay dos Méxicos no Chicagos, pero hay muchas "ciudades bonitillas" en el E.E.U.U que no son aburridas. La personalidad is diferente, sí, pero hay personalidad.
This looks a lot like what we'd have the advanced students write for our ESL classes.
one of our students hadn't seen her dad in 10 years..pretty sad. But others were really content.
Makes me feel good reading this. Seems like how my spanish must have read when I first started writing.
I love this Find. I think this woman is beautiful. Her words are so human, and they pretty much document the gist of the entire American immigrant experience, I'd say.
"She wants to go back, she goes back, boom. Not that difficult. I highly doubt she was FORCED to leave Mexico."
Although an honest statement, that's a very subjective and extremely loaded one too... it actually might be difficult for her to go back, she might not be able to come back in, she might be in the middle of citizenship hearings, she might come from a really dangerous area of Mexico that she left in fear... "forced" is a perfect choice of words since it is possible to make the argument that our current global economy has "forced" many people out of their 3rd World countries in search for more opportunities in order to survive. And yes, nobody TELLS immigrants to come to this country, they come out of their own "choice," but the problem is, with the current state of the world, nobody TELLS the same people that it is possible to stay and survive in their own countries. Our own countries. Proud Paraguaya :)
When I was born, 41 years before this was found, my family and I lived in a basement apartment on the corner of Rogers and Clark Street in Rogers Park. We moved to the suburbs just west of there when I was two.
I once knew of a situation in which a woman who had married here in the states went back to visit her homeland...Chile maybe...and because she left the country illegally was forced to stay and face prosecution. Her husband is still here in the states. The really sad part about it is they have two kids. I believe the kids are with her.
This found reminded me of that situation.