Blog 4_My Biography

I have a passion for music; to thrive to hear something new and seek out creativity within a melody, beat or lyric. My day must consist of music at some point in my day and me singing which came from my church choir. I have been a part of groups like NAACP, Breast Cancer Awareness Fashion Shows and Church events growing up because of my relationship with my grandmother who always kept me involved in something. She is also my motivation because she told me that helping others should be my main priority because a good deed will always come your way. I believe I have something to bring to the table. My goals every day for my future is to make a difference in someone else’s life. I feel I have many skills to offer, whether it’s speaking to people, conducting events, helping people all around both in a professional aspect and social I am a person who will voice their concerns at the right time and ask questions and answer them. I can admit my personal life has caused me to lose track at times but I have always be able to pick myself up and have faith to keep moving. I’m always up for improvement and get where I need to be, an inspiring and better me. 

Blog #3_Current Events_Giants Tragedy

 I’m not the type of person who would take a game too seriously but I am still a competitive person. I love football, but I wouldn’t go to the extreme and take my anger out on someone else. I remember hearing about the baseball game between the Giants and Dodgers and instantly thinking “I bet something is going to turn up tomorrow and it won’t be good.” I would say a few days later I hear about this man who was almost beaten to death from Dodger fans at the game. I didn’t want to believe it, not that I wasn’t surprised a fight broke out but for someone to take it to that level without stopping and realizing what their actions are causing. I would hear little things about this new technology that doctor’s had tried on police officers that had head trauma after a car accident. It’s new and only has been tested on a few people including Bryan Stow, the man from the Giants and Dodgers game. From what they say it’s a shunt that is inserted in the brain and drains fluids from his traumatic brain injury that he suffers from. I have just read, from sfgate.com, that the two men from San Bernardino who assaulted Mr. Stow pleaded not guilty last month. Like I said before I am a competitive person, but under no circumstances will I allow myself to act in such a way. This game was meant for healthy competitiveness and to enjoy your time with your family. Not every situation has to be where you need to prove who can give the harder punch. As of today the family of Bryan Stow sad that he is speaking, asking about his kids and recognizing family members. (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/22/BAQ91L84Q2.DTL)

My experience in high school

My high school was Carlmont High School in the suburb of Belmont. The School consisted of kids from East Palo Alto and the majority was Caucasian and Asian who lived nearby. I lived in Redwood shores during high school.  My school had a reputation of being the school that was a women’s prison. The whole school is on a hill, has many stairs and three fields for multiple sporting events. Everyone was always separate, their own clicks, and it was usually by color. We had different cultures but until I got to Carlmont I didn’t even know what Tongan and Samoan were. To me there was not a lot of school spirit but no creativity. I would say though my school had its reputation of having a lot of fights and tight security. I thought people were being dramatic but my freshman year there was a fight at least twice a week. I never really enjoyed having to going to school, I just really didn’t like sitting in class and listening to a boring lecture about something I had no interest in. The only motivation for graduating and walking across that stage was the thought of failing and ending up like my parents. People didn’t understand that I paid attention growing up, and I never forgot how I felt when we had to constantly move. I’m going to stick though this program and graduate from Year Up.

BP #1- BC_The way I talk

Business Comunications

9/14/11



    I have gone through different stages in my life mostly because of the neighborhoods I had to grow up in and attitudes that came with it to survive. Growing up I moved around a lot and at a young age it was all about being you, as I was taught. In pre-school/kinder garden I went to the Christian Academy Private School in a more middle class neighborhood that consist mostly people of color. I never had to worry about changing how I spoke with peers to fit in. That experience didn’t take place until I moved to a more upper class neighborhood where kids described your lingo and as ghetto. I used to always have parent/teacher conferences because the instructors felt the way I spoke was too opinionated and spoke out. The elementary school I went to consist of three African American kids, including myself. I had to change the way I spoke just to have the other kids to talk to me, who knows if they ever accepted me. This lingo of speaking proper, to their liking, stuck with me until around seventh grade when I became friends with more kids of color who would travel from East Palo Alto. When they got a hold of me, questions and comments of “why do you talk like that”, “you talk too white washed, you need to talk more black”, and my all time favorite, “O don’t mind her, she hasn’t been around enough black people In her life.” Words like “hella”, for me was just like another word in the dictionary. I never thought of it as a bad word and was never told not to say it. When I would go to other states or Los Angeles people have their own lingo for describing things n “hella” was just a Bay Area term that we used.