My Diversity Timeline

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My Diversity Timeline by Mind Map: My Diversity Timeline

1. I was born in 1972 to teenaged parents my dad was a young poor farm boy and my mother was raised in a foster home. Neither of my parents graduated from high school.

1.1. My parents divorced when I was 2

1.1.1. My my mom and I moved to government housing in a small rural town. My best friend was a African-American boy named Courtney. There was also a mixed race couple that lived beside us. I know wow all this in the 1970's south.

1.1.1.1. My mom moved us to a town outside of Detroit, Michigan when I was 4. In our neighborhood there were people from several ethnicities. I had classmates from India, the Middle East, and some Eastern European countries as well as Asia.

1.1.1.1.1. In the sixth grade I had a teacher from Yugoslavia. Her name was Mrs. Stoianavich and she talked with a heavy accent and sometimes had trouble expressing herself in English. She talked a lot about her native country during history and geography class. She once made us her homemade crapes to eat for lunch.My best friend in the sixth grade was a immigrant from Malta named Mikey Maclef. We went to Michigan to see him at Christmas two years ago.