Adriana
Gender: Female
Age: 5-19
Race: Hispanic
Nativity: Foreign Born
Educational Attainment:
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Grade Level in School: High School
Travel Time to School: 15 minutes
Internet Access: Yes
Religion: None
City: Raleigh
Narrative:
Playing soccer has been a life-long dream for this sixteen-year-old girl. Soccer is something that Adriana truly loves, and likes watching other people play it as well. Adriana was adopted from Guatemala about fifteen years ago, and is now living in Raleigh with her parents and sister. There are many plans that she has, including graduating from college at Appalachian. When she gets out of college she wants to be a physical therapist, because she loves interacting with people. Ever since she was younger she has loved to be social with people. At the YMCA camp, she was a staff trainee, and she really enjoyed interacting with kids and grown ups and making life-long friends.
It usually takes Adriana fifteen minutes to get to school each day because her Dad takes her. None of her family members are related to her, because she was adopted. Sometimes when people get a first glance at her they think that she can speak Spanish because she has that type of brown skin color and dark hair. When people try to talk to her in Spanish she usually can’t understand what they are saying or asking her. The population for Spanish people coming to the USA is growing tremendously, so it is getting harder for her to communicate with adults and even kids.
Adriana’s family has access to the Internet. This is a great advantage for doing projects. In her backyard she has a lot of land, which is about one-and-a-half acres that her and her family have to take care of. At her high school she is old enough to go off campus to grab something to eat, and she does, so she eats out few times a week. In her house she has pretty safe access to drinking water, even though it does have copper in it: “Our water has copper in it because of the pipes that it goes through, and that is why when we drink water we run the water for sixty seconds so it get most of the copper out.”