Shot 4: Imagine being told you had to leave your country right away, away from your

family and home because of reasons that you had no control over. Imagine having to
Change everything...
Shot 5: ...your lifestyle, your culture...
Shot 6: ...your home, your language
Shot 7: ...your knowledge, everything.
Shot 8: Change it's something that we all face.
Shot 9: Looking at the changes Lorena
Shot 10: ...a woman who in which we are about to tell a story about, had to make will make
you realize the differences in the american culture vs. the latino culture.
Shot 12: I grew up in Managua Nicaragua until I was 17.
Shot 14: My life in Nicaragua I think I had a perfect childhood.
Shot 16: I went on my bike.
Shot 17: I play on the street kickball.
Shot 18: I went to school came back did sports.
Shot 19: We had a beach house, we went to the beach house every weekend.
Shot 20: My dad had a farm we went to the farm and rode horses.
Shot 21: My dad was a lawyer but he wanted to be a farmer, I think.
Shot 22: So he bought a farm and he grew coffee and he had like 50 cows not that much he
bought goats he had chickens like 5 horses.
Shot 24: We lived there after the earthquake and then we move to nicaragua and then when the
war started again we moved back to the farm and we had everything we needed there so it was
perfect.
Shot 25: Imagine one minute everything being fine and then the next second youre thrown
in a whole different world.

Shot 27: When I first came to the United States I was 17.
Shot 28: The countries came over when Reagan became president.
Shot 29: So then they named to enroll the Nicaraguan girls.
Shot 31: I was 17 years old and did my senior year here.
Shot 33: After I finished I came back to the United States
Shot 35: In 1990 or 1989 thats when I met him.
Shot 36: We had 3 beautiful girls and it was fine.
Shot 37: Imagine having children in a place different than your birth place.
Shot 38: It's hard to raise children in a country that you weren't born in. Especially when
there is no family around to help you with it all.
Shot 39: But then imagine being in a new place, a better place.
Shot 40: I love San Diego.
Shot 41: I love things near the beach. beach
Shot 42: I hate cold weather, I'm from the tropics
Shot 43: If it were up to me, I would have just loved to stay growin up in Nicaragua.
Shot 44: and just keep enjoying my culture and my family.
Shot 45: Coming to san diego is beautiful too.
Shot 46: I mean san Diego is beautiful, the people are super nice.
Shot 47: I met my husband.
Shot 48: My three perfect girls.
Shot 49: So you never know what's going to happen in the future, so something good always
happens.