Anzaldua Blog Response

When I was in seventh and eigth grades I was taking my ESL classes, I was learning English because I had recently moved to the United States. I was not judged by Americans who spoke English, but by people of my own etnicity. While in class I used to not talk to anyone because I knew that if I talked to them they would make fun of my Salvadoran spanish accent. All of my classmates were Mexicans one or two were Asian so I could not talk to the Asians because I did not speak English and I could not talk to the Mexicans because they made fun of me. They said mean and derogatory things about me. Due to this issue I grew a strong rage towards some Mexican teenagers. I had a Mexican girlfriend and she was very nice and sweet, she never said anything that could hurt me and she was the only person who I can speak to in school and she would understand and not make fun of my accent. She had a friend and she was Mexican also and one we were both sitting in the cafeteria having our lunch when her friend came to our table. It was the day that we had received our progress reports and my friend was happy about me having straight A's that she told her friend that I had a 4.00 GPA. The girl just gave me a look full of envy and madness and said "caras vemos mañas no sabemos." It was one of the things that I have never forgotten. The girl knew who I was and where from and whenever she saw me she would look the other direction. What she said made me very upset but I said nothing to her nor to anyone who said things like this to me excet one time. I was again in the school cafeteria waiting in line to get my food when someone said something in English that I did not understand and I said "no hablo Ingles." Someone behind me was so impatient that I did not move forward on the line that said "Go back to Mexico" I turned to him and said "no soy Mexicana." The guy was Mexican I could see it, and I felt it in his words. Later I realized that the guy was in my P.E class.