Premise: My mother will reflect on her life as a child of an immigrant and how it influenced her own choices in life and as a mother, all while my family prepares a popular Bolivian dish.
Events: 1) Times my mom knew her family was not like the typical American family. 2) Any moments that stuck out to her as being important to our family / her childhood / she will always remember. 3) Explaining what it was like to have all her aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, etc. living in a 20-minute radius of each other. 4) Explaining the importance of family and family events and what those events mean to our family. 5) How it felt when her grandparents moved back to Bolivia. 6) What was it like moving to Massachusetts and leaving the family? 7) How did her upbringing affect how she raises me and my sister? 8) Any specific moments of racism she felt or later realized was racist. 9) Why did she decide not to go back for holiday’s after me and my sister were born, does she regret this? 10) Importance of our family reunions? Anything she’d like to say about them?
Seven Steps: 1) My mom’s desire is for family and a strong family connection. For all of us to be able to come together and tell stories and share the experiences our family had to go through to be where we are today. 2) The weakness is a sense of belonging. Being part of an immigrant family, all they try to do is fit in with their surroundings so that they feel like this new country is their home. The need is each other. Since it is hard to fit into a new country, they use their family to have some sort of sense of belonging in their lives. 3) The opponent is the struggles my mom went through in her life with her family and with trying to fit in. 4) The story structure will be different sound bites of my mom talking about her life and family and how big holiday / all family events fit into her childhood and how it is all surrounded by food. 5) The battle that will be faced is explaining how my mom had to fit in and things she has to do to fit in. 6) My mom will explain how the family moments helped shape her as a person and as a mother. 7) The new state is how my mom values family and how it is such a huge part of her life.