By Victoria Kuntz
Diana Chantaca has had to undergo many struggles to get to where she is today. Diana was born in the United States, but her family lives in Mexico, and beginning at age 14, she had to travel between her home in Mexico to her high school in Brownsville, Texas. That meant waking up at 4:30 each morning. With after-school activities and ballet classes lasting until 9 p.m. most nights, she usually crawled into bed around midnight, only to get four or five hours of sleep, then woke up to do it all over again the following day.
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When things fell through with her first-choice school, Diana was devastated, but her high school counselor reminded her that 鈥渟ometimes what we want is not what God wants for us.鈥�
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