To me, I never had an idea about the so called American dream I have never understood  Another person's perspective  of being able to immigrate  to America  So I went to go interview  someone who did immigrate to America and constantly struggled in order to make it. Mr Leandro was born in the year 1959 in Costa Rica and immigrated to America with his mother who was living there at first. He immigrated at age 7 to the United States, New Jersey, where he stayed for two years, then he moved  to Boston for another three years until finally in 1971 moved to California. Through speaking with Mr. Leandro, I realized that the American dream was not to be rich, but to become better than your parents intended you to be.

As a child, everyone envisions himself growing up to work at an exciting career.  For Mr Leandro, it was to become a  professional musician. “My love has always been music, I always wanted to be a musician that was my dream to be a professional musician,” he emphasized. In fourth grade, he began playing the trumpet, and although his dream of professional musicianship did not pan out, he did not let his dream dry up. He still plays trumpet in various gigs in a mariachi band.  

 To illustrate how vastly Costa Rica differed from America, Mr. Leandro shared some of his first experiences here.  “When I moved to America it happen to be entirely different from Costa Rica “ declared Mr Leandro.  approximating for  any new immigrant, he did not speak the language, but other novelties captivated his attention most -- like snow.  He explained, “The first time that it [the snow] came down out of the sky, I assumed it was a fire somewhere. I believed they were  ashes because, as a child in Costa Rica, we had a volcano that spewed ashes, and so, I understood that was an occurrence  in America. And when it stuck to the ground I believe it was amazing.” When Mr Leandro arrived in America, he transferred to many different schools ,”my mom was constantly in the principal's office because, just behavior problems.” Mostly the reasons behind this  were not being able to  adjusting well to his  new surroundings

To clarify how Mr Leandro was extremely  impoverished when growing up he did not have running water or no bathroom. “ instead of a bathroom, we had an outhouse and went outside.” explain Mr Leandro.  Another detail  Mr Leandro aforementioned ”again i imagine  when you are a child and you are poor you don't know you are poor until you think about it and you are like OH MY God we were poor. ” when he came to America, he  had the ability to have these  features. One new issue when coming to America was the television,  one story That Mr Leandro will never  forget about coming to America was the story of Mr Leandro and his brother eavesdropping to another persons house”We had one neighbor and the only neighbor  that had the only TV in the neighborhood , and so my brother   and I would go and look through the crack of the door because we were just fascinated by it. And then of course they put towels in there so we couldn't do that anymore and we assume   they were being so mean. Now, as an adult well when you have children looking the cracks of the door you can see how that is intrusive. That about the only memory  we missed .” joked Mr Leandro

He then briefly explained his greatest regrets in his past “there been an enormous amount  of pain in my life.”proclaimed Mr Leandro .His mother had remarried when coming to America and it was difficult having a stepfather and step brothers.” At That time all those changes  you look up and say why god why ,especially  when you become an adolescent, but now when you reach to the age that I am you start looking back and you see that those experiences actually shape my life and put me where I am at today .”
Furthermore Mr Leandro then responded to his American Dream “  he expressed,” well the so-called American dream is to be able to own a house to go to college to be better than your parents were. I never had any immense  desire to be rich , to own a house that happens to be  exceptionally  important to me. I bought my own house when I turned  22 years old, I saved every single dime, entirety all my saving went to buying a house since I assumed  that that was important getting an education was also an enormous part.And the final part of the American dream was being able to be giving back and that everyone should be treated equally, everybody deserves dignity to be treated with respect that is part of my American dream. But some people would say it to be rich. Ronald Reagan famously quoted “America will always be the country where anyone can be rich “ that is not necessarily my dream.”