My Past

I had planned to go to college right after high school, but as a human be life does not always happen according to plan. In this paper, I will briefly descript some of few of my life experiences that have made me the person that I am leaving today and analyze some of these experiences using the adult development theories from this class. I will also talk about some goals that I want to achieve in the future.

I grew up in a Christian family. Both my dad and my mother’s parent were pastors of the Baptist church and my dad and his younger brother including my mother’s younger brother are also pastor of a Baptist church. My parent met while they were studying for their bachelor degree in the high institution in Kinshasa which is the capital city in the country where I was born. As Dad tells it, he asked her out on a date several times, but she always refused because she thought as a pastor’s daughter she has to dad someone that her dad will approved of meaning a pastor’s son or someone with a Christian. Mom was in med school (she is a midwife nurse and a pastor’s wife) and dad was in school of theology studying for his theology degree, when she found out who dad really was then they went out on date, the rest is history.

My earliest childhood memories were of growing up on as Christian and taking care of my sisters and brother in Kinshasa as the third child out six children. My mother was at the hospital most the time and my father were a teacher in the Salvation Army school and also spent most of his time at the church. I practically took over the house work like if I was the first child. My oldest sister was never a home, she was one of these sibling that no one knew she was our sister until we mention it, and me being the third child and second of the girls I assumed her responsibilities of taking care of our younger ones and helping the parent out .

I remember the most is of how most of the time we had to eat two times per day and we had to wait for our...