Elea's Cultural Autobiography

I am Elea Ortega and I was born on 1990 in the Republic of Panama in Panama city, but I was just born in the city. I was raised in Santiago, the capital of Veraguas, a Panamenian's province. My father is a cardiologist, Karate Sempai and is captain of the kiwani club of santiago de Veraguas. My beautiful mother is a sales executive. I am the only child and sometimes I wish I could have had a sister or an older brother, because it is beautiful to share things with your siblings, well I can imagine, or even fight with them, it is a beautiful thing.

I love my culture because the families are very close and is always like that, even when you are eighteen or nineteen like I am, or who knows also thirty-five, people still living with their parents. I really love that family is all, family includes uncles, aunts, cousins, grandmother, grandfather, not only the mother, the father and the siblings, family is everybody, and that is something that I really love about my culture, because if one has a problem everybody is involved in it and everybody tries to figure it out to help.

I saw this statue when I was in Chicago on vacations,
and it remind me my grandma


My grandmother is really important in my life, I love her so much, and when I was in Panama I would always go to her house every afternoon with my mother, and all my cousins go too, and some uncles and every aunt, I used to sit with my grandmother and watch soup opera, and we would laugh so much about the situations in it. Now that I'm here in the United States, I miss her a lot, I miss talk with her and laugh.

Since I was a little girl I always I always love the music, music is my life and soul, and my inclination since really little, I remembered myself listening Britney Spears songs and singing her songs and also the boy bands such as Backstreet Boys and Nsync too. I was always watching movies and programs in English and I have to say that all of those programs and music helped me a lot with the process of learning English, all that I know is thanks to the music and my passion for it, if it wasn't because of my love to music and all those programs in English, i would have not been here. Because in my high school we do have English, but it is basic.

The English that I learned help me to get selected into the program called UGRAD, and have the opportunity of being studying in a North American University. Which is going to change my life with so many wonderful experiences and get fluency in the language.

Talking about the tipical music of my beautiful Panama, I started to learn how to dance it when I was at the age of eighteen, because I have always love the pop punk rock music, but then I realized that our music is really amazing but really hard to dance. I think all the people should try to learn how to dance it, because when you dance Panamenian music, the tipical, you feel you are on the clouds, so its good.

Another thing that I really love and miss a lot from my country is the food, on Sundays, my mother always used to make me breakfast, Panamenian Tortillas with cheese inside and a omelet with cheese and ham, so delicious, and there is a lot of Panamenian plates, such as tamales, bollos, hojaldras with cheese and many more.

I love my culture and my lovely country, but I bet that all the countries have that something that makes them unique and special, so far I love sharing my cultural thoughts with my classmates, they all are from different countries, and I love to get to know about their cultures, because to me they all are special and unique.

ps: It was kinda hard writing about me, but I really enjoy it, I hope you all like my cultural autobiography.