Glenda Guzman

My name is Glenda I came to the United States 10 years ago. I didn’t know about the life in this country. A month after I arrived I started working in the afternoon cleaning the kitchen of a restaurant in the basement with a lady who already works there cleaning.

The weeks went by and the work became heavier because the lady no longer did all her work. She had me do her work while she sat eating kiwis.

One day my boss called me. I was very scared. My head was spinning with thoughts of many things I was not doing well in my work. But the surprise was that he had seen the cameras and saw how badly the lady treated me!

He gave me a position in the main restaurant to welcome the customers and supervise that everything was in order in the restaurant. I was very happy. There were more hours, but the hours were perfect for me to work and go to English classes, while my boss and my coworkers trained me in the basic langauge I needed to use at work.

I worked 4 years in that nice restaurant. Later, God blessed me with my first child to my life. I left my job with a lot of pain in my heart. All has been going very good with me. Except for the lady who mistreateed me (she left 3 years before me; I think she remembers me as I am from her same town), I miss my job a lot. But, I would not change anything. All these years I’ve spent taking care of my family full time; and here I start again studying English with the teacher and classmates who I like as much as my work.

Who truly love us never leave us? There is One who is always here <3. No one can go back and start again, but anyone can start today and create a new ending. It is never too late to start.

Glenda Guzman