I am a high school student that lives in Boston. I go to Boston Arts Academy for visual arts. But I can also play guitar and bass. This story is not fully about me but about what my family has gone through. My dad three years ago got deported to El Salvador. The police just came to our house, took him in and deported him on a random day. Me and my family didn’t know what to do. It was a hard mid because my dad was the pillar of our family. My mom had to work almost all day, so that meant that I had to take care of my sister all day. It was hard for me in school too. I didn’t want to do anything really. But he came back that’s the good thing. It was a hard time I went through with my family. It really impacted my life because I got to open my eyes and see that family is a big important factor in life that we all need to have so this experience made me think that we should all appreciate the family we have.