I had a teacher named Donya Carmen and she made me feel good about myself. She used to compliment me all the time. Even though I didn’t have a single friend in school my age, my teacher was.” In elementary a lot of kids used to tease me about my name. They used to separate my name into two words like so “car- man”. When I was younger, I used to go home and cry and tell my mom about it, but she used to remind me and tell me how much she loved me and how she wouldn’t change my name for the world because it's special regardless of how many people have it. Over the time I learned to love my name because I don’t think I would’ve liked it any other way than what it is now. It's a part of me that I am very proud of and never will change because not only do I appreciate it, it also means a lot to the very people who named me. Whenever someone asks me my name and I tell them my name’s Carmen, they always tell me how beautiful and special my name is and I totally agree with them. Now whenever someone asks me about my name , I will no longer be ashamed of it because I know that there’s significance to
I had a teacher named Donya Carmen and she made me feel good about myself. She used to compliment me all the time. Even though I didn’t have a single friend in school my age, my teacher was.” In elementary a lot of kids used to tease me about my name. They used to separate my name into two words like so “car- man”. When I was younger, I used to go home and cry and tell my mom about it, but she used to remind me and tell me how much she loved me and how she wouldn’t change my name for the world because it's special regardless of how many people have it. Over the time I learned to love my name because I don’t think I would’ve liked it any other way than what it is now. It's a part of me that I am very proud of and never will change because not only do I appreciate it, it also means a lot to the very people who named me. Whenever someone asks me my name and I tell them my name’s Carmen, they always tell me how beautiful and special my name is and I totally agree with them. Now whenever someone asks me about my name , I will no longer be ashamed of it because I know that there’s significance to