Student and Farmworker at the Same Time
The radio program Latino USA presented a beautiful story about The Migrant Student Club during their transmission the past August 18 th of the current year 2020. I listened to this program on September 1st 2020, and from this audio I learned that there are thousands of students from immigrant families, whose responsibility is not just going to school, but also helping with their house mortgage, bills, clothes, and grocery at home, because their parents’ salary isn’t enough to pay basic needs. To do so, this program focuses in a group of teenagers who travel to states in the north of the country and spend their summer as farmworkers. This theme relates to the class because basically all of them traveled from Latin American countries when they were very young, and their parents came here looking for opportunities in a developed country. There are differences among cultures in those southern countries, however, they all share the same tough childhoo...