Little Sister Kleine Schwester リトル・シスター Младшая сестра Сестричко. 小妹妹

Kara: So, you mentioned there’s a large gap between the oldest and you being towards the youngest. Kara: Então, você mencionou que há uma grande diferença entre o mais velho e você sendo o mais novo. What do you think the differences growing up were between your life and their life and what were the advantages and disadvantages? Quais você acha que foram as diferenças de crescimento entre sua vida e a vida deles e quais foram as vantagens e desvantagens? Lupe: Well, I think for the most part, it was a great advantage to be one of the younger ones. Lupe: Nun, ich denke, dass es größtenteils ein großer Vorteil war, einer der Jüngeren zu sein. I’m the second youngest, so having ten, you know, ten siblings, ten older than me definitely helped be growing up because I always had a lot of people to look up to and, you know, telling me right from wrong, which was always a great help. Ich bin die Zweitjüngste, und da ich zehn Geschwister habe, die zehnmal älter sind als ich, hat es mir auf jeden Fall geholfen, aufzuwachsen, denn ich hatte immer viele Leute, zu denen ich aufschauen konnte und die mir sagten, was richtig und was falsch ist, was immer eine große Hilfe war. Eu sou o segundo mais novo, então ter dez, você sabe, dez irmãos, dez mais velhos do que eu definitivamente ajudou a crescer porque eu sempre tive muitas pessoas para admirar e, você sabe, me dizendo o certo do errado, o que sempre foi uma grande ajuda. Financially, it was the biggest advantage because, you know, I hear stories from my older siblings about them growing up because they didn’t have a lot of resources and financially my family wasn’t very stable so as they got older, I started working and helping out with, you know, all the expenses. Financeiramente, foi a maior vantagem porque, você sabe, eu ouço histórias de meus irmãos mais velhos sobre eles crescerem porque eles não tinham muitos recursos e financeiramente minha família não era muito estável, então quando eles ficaram mais velhos, eu comecei trabalhando e ajudando, você sabe, todas as despesas. It really helped us little ones to really be, you know, grow up in a better way and have all the things that maybe they didn’t. Isso realmente nos ajudou, os pequenos, a realmente ser, você sabe, crescer de uma maneira melhor e ter todas as coisas que talvez eles não tivessem. And also, one of the biggest advantages was that once the older, my older siblings started working, making enough money, you know, they raised enough money to move here to the United States, and bring the rest of us here and we had the great advantage of going to school here in the United States and being able to learn another language, educate ourselves, continue to go onto college, which is something that my older siblings didn’t have, so I’m very grateful for that. Und einer der größten Vorteile war, dass meine älteren Geschwister, als sie anfingen zu arbeiten und genug Geld verdienten, genug Geld aufbrachten, um hierher in die Vereinigten Staaten zu ziehen und den Rest von uns hierher zu bringen, und wir hatten den großen Vorteil, hier in den Vereinigten Staaten zur Schule zu gehen und eine andere Sprache zu lernen, uns weiterzubilden, weiter aufs College zu gehen, was meine älteren Geschwister nicht hatten, und dafür bin ich sehr dankbar. I think the only disadvantage of being one of the younger ones is a lot of the traditions that were being passed in our family from generations didn’t quite make it to us when we moved here to the United States. Eu acho que a única desvantagem de ser um dos mais jovens é que muitas das tradições que estavam sendo passadas em nossa família de gerações não chegaram até nós quando nos mudamos para os Estados Unidos. We weren’t able to do many of the things my older siblings got to do when they lived in Mexico, but you know I really can’t complain because we have a lot of other things that they didn’t have when they were little. Wir konnten nicht viele der Dinge tun, die meine älteren Geschwister tun konnten, als sie in Mexiko lebten, aber ich kann mich wirklich nicht beklagen, denn wir haben viele andere Dinge, die sie nicht hatten, als sie klein waren. Não podíamos fazer muitas das coisas que meus irmãos mais velhos faziam quando moravam no México, mas você sabe que eu realmente não posso reclamar porque temos muitas outras coisas que eles não tinham quando eram pequenos .