“I was one of the thousands who come to this country with the wrong idea”

A Cuban TikToker living in the US shares her personal story to leave a clear moral with her followers 😛It is very important to explain to relatives on the island the work that goes into achieving a certain status and standard of living in the United States.They will not understand it until they see it for themselves.

Estrellita Calderin – who has more than 254 thousand followers on the aforementioned social network – began by admitting that She herself came to America with a wrong idea of ​​what the country was like.However she says she is blessed every day to give her daughter a better future and a better life for herself.

That account Her family “became famous” in 1998 and she was left alone in Cuba with her daughter. Her parents sent her many photos of her well-dressed, walking, and in restaurants, and this made her want one for herself, even though her family recommended she stay in Cuba.

“I was getting an idea of ​​what this country is like and I said ‘Wow…. They live very well’says Estrellita.

He stated how shocking it was that his brother recommended him to stay in Cuba because he had a position on the island, a comfortable job in an office and they took care to cover all his material needs; when If he goes to the United States, he will have to work hard.

The family – who lived in Los Angeles, California – would return to visit her and always bring her clothes and comforts of all kinds.

“Yes, ok, but I had to think about my daughter’s future, Should I consider my daughter to study in a country where she is eligible to study because what good will study do for me?“, questioned Calderin, who explained that in Cuba she was doing “inappropriate” things in her work in which she had one foot in her house and the other 100 and Eldabo.

“I wanted to come to the United States at any cost. “They lived very well and I wanted to have this life too.”It points out.

He says he eventually came to the country on a humanitarian visa because of his father’s serious health problems.

Before leaving Cuba, he gave away all his and his daughter’s clothes because he knew he would have more and better clothes in the United States.

He arrived on US soil with two backpacks: one with family photos and the other with religious books.

However, when she arrives she finds that days are passing and her family has not taken her shopping. He had only one change of clothes and that too was wearing his mother’s clothes.

When she asked her family when they would take her to buy “nice clothes”. They told him that he needed simple clothes for work.

Finally, a mysterious bag that appeared next to the house’s entrance—apparently from a charitable neighbor who was saddened to see her always wearing the same clothes—served to mask her clothed helplessness.

Emphasized Estrellita Calderon That contrasts with the reality he had in Cuba, where his family supported his needs full-time.

And after the extended story, comes the moral:

“The moral of this story is that we have to explain to our relatives in our country how we have to work here, how many hours we have to work, how many jobs we have, until they come and they don’t. Facing this reality “they won’t understand,” he said.

“This country deserves it, I’ll always say it: God bless the United States. In our country, no matter how much you work and work, you never have anything and we don’t enjoy the freedom that we have in this country.he added.

But he insists: “No matter how much we explain to our relatives, they will never understand.”

“We have to let them have their own thoughts, take their own paths, take their hits and learn with work and effort to achieve things,” he concluded.