During my childhood, the most impacting moment in my life was being torn from my home in Puerto Rico when my father joined the US Army. I was afraid because I attributed this physical place as the source of my culture, language, and music. After some time I learned that I could hold on to those things if I worked hard to preserve them. One of my proudest achievements was to return home and study at the University of Puerto Rico, Humacao.  I proved to myself that I was able to reintegrate back into the source of my culture. Now I am armed with the knowledge that my culture lives within me and it will only die if I allow it to.