One truth

1.      My natural hair is red.

2.      I have two sisters.

3.      My favorite subject is math

4.      I have a pet trigger at my house.

5.      When I was five I drove a car.

6.      I have never been to the beach.

My two Best Friends

This week I want to talk about my two best friends. Their names are Fanny and Carmen. They both attend to Oxnard College like me. We have been together since junior year in high school. We like to go out to party, eat or just hang out. Most of the time we are at my house. They like my house. Our favorite place to go eat is toppers pizza. And we like to party where there’s banda. We like Spanish music. We listen to banda, corridos and nortenas. Almost every day we are together we meet up at the Oxnard College library to do homework. That’s like around noon and after that we go out to eat. I enjoy spending time with them. I trust them and we always shave fun when we are together.



Halloween Party



We Were Bored

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Changing attitude

I was a regular student in high school. I had an English College Prep class and Spanish AP. I didn’t really like school. I just went to school because I had to. So after graduating High School I started working. When I stared working I never thought of going back to school. I worked and got my own money.  For me school wasn’t that exiting. For work, I worked up at five in the morning. I had to be at work at six in the morning and got out at two-thirty in the afternoon. I worked for eight hours and got paid $8.00 the hour. After, sometime working there I realized that wasn’t the life I wanted. I got home really tired. That got me thinking and I quit the job. Later I enrolled in college. The experience of working in the factory changed my attitude about my education. It took me one month to change my point of view on how I wanted to live my life in the future. The thought of working the rest of my life for minimum wage changed everything in my mind. I took the initiative an enrolled at Oxnard College to continue with my education. Being at Oxnard College has changed my life know I want to continue studying. And get a job that will pay me more than $8.00 the hour. I want a better education to later educate my children. By me going to college I set a good example for my younger sisters. I have showed them that they can go to. I have made my parents proud of me. They like the idea of me going to college. This decision has totally change life know I want to be somebody in life.

Interview

Stephany Lopez a medium height, brownish hair and cute smile girl. Describes herself as impaciant, nice and hardheaded. Stephany graduated high school and right after started working at FedEx. After sometime at the job she realized  that was not a job for her. It was a job more likely for guys. So she went back to school and got her Medical Assistant diploma. She worked as a Medical Assistant for one year and a half. And now she's back at Oxnard College to become a nurse. Her biggest motivation is getting a better future for herself and later on for her children. Stephany is the first one in her family to attend College. Therefore, she’s a role model to her younger sisters because she’s the oldest. Her culture also influence her to dream big. Because in the Hispanic culture most females don’t attend college. They just drop out, give up or they just simply get marry. The days for Stephany are really busy she works from nine in the morning until six in the afternoon. So she attends school in the nights. Monday thru Thursday she gets out of work and rushes to college because her class starts at 7p.m. There’s an exception on Wednesday she gets out of work at 5:30 because her English class starts at 6p.m. Due to her busy week she hardly sees or spends time with her family during the week. That leads her to see her family only on the weekends. Her opinion about college is that is not as hard as people pictured it. Stephany says “if you do homework, put effort, and not give up college is easy."

Family

My family is made up of five people. That will be my mom, dad and two sisters and me. I’m the oldest; I have a thirteen year old sister she is in junior high. Hopefully she graduates the eighth grade. I also have a five year old little sister she’s still in kindergarten. Then theirs my dad a tall, skinny and hardworking man. My mom, she can be a mom and dad at the same time. She works to bring money home and still manages to keeps the house clean and knows where everything is at. Finally is theirs me I’m 18 and study at Oxnard College.

            As a family we spend time together. Monday thru Friday we have dinner all together. At dinner time we like to talk about how was our day and sometimes our problems. On Saturday I hardly see them because I got out. But then Sunday is family day we go out together. We like to the stores and then to go eat. I like spending time with them. At the end of the day we get home and relax from our day long together. My parents are really important to me they have always been there for me. Since I remember my parents have work to give me the best. With my thirteen year old sister I get along with her and share accessories and clothes. And with my five year old sister I like spending time with her. At times she can be a little bratty but I love her.

My family and I are united. If I have a problem I can just go and talk to my mom. If I want money I just go and ask my dad. When I feel like fighting I look for my thirteen year sister. And argue with her. And when I get bored and just want to be happy for a while I spend time with my little sister. A kid’s smile is the best. She just smiles and that brightens up my dad. I love my family.

Reality Television

Reality television, I believe is the new thing now on TV. Shows like Jersey Shore and Teen Mom and others are the popular shows on MTV. I use to watch reality TV when I had nothing better to do around the house. Truth is that I use to watch them because they were entertaining each new sequel was better than the other in my opinion. For example, I use to watch Jersey Shore every Thursday at 10:00p.m and on Fridays in History class we would start a class discussion on last night episode. Everyone would talk and comment on what they like about the episode and for some reason everyone had and wanted to share their own opinion. Some stuff that I don't like about reality television is that the actors act dumb like if they don’t know what they’re doing. That's just irritating to me and they ill just change the channel watching reality television was just stressing.
In my opinion reality television is harming society special the youth. Because on TV the actors try to portrait a life with no problems no responsibilities. A life where you don’t have to work or you can be late to work almost every day. A life where you can party and get wasted everyday. A life where having a child at a young age is the best thing ever. And they don’t show any good things there’s always drama, problems and fighting and everything gets solve in the next episode like if life was that essay. They also show the rich people having everything they want and there life problem free. Reality television doesn’t show anything good. They don’t put a good example for real life, everything is fake and they want us to believe it. On TV they don’t sleep or take showers or even go to the restroom. It’s not something we have to watch it teaches us no good. And then the youth tries to fallow that example.

Know that I come to college and have more responsibilities I don’t really have time to watch TV. And those times that I turn on the TV I don’t go on the reality TV channels ill rather watch the news for a while. I try to avoid those shows because I have a little sister and I don’t want her watching those kinds of shows. That don’t show her a good example of life.

Fast food

Food Fast

My experience with fast food it’s been alright till a certain point. As a child I remember my mom worked every day and still manage to get home and cooked a meal for us. That meant Monday thru Friday we would eat what she cooked and on weekends we will eat fast food. We would eat fast food because she would be tired of working and cooking on the week that on weekend she I’ll give us fast food as a treat. It always worked like this if on Saturday we had pizza for dinner then Sunday will have a hamburger, we will never eat pizza or hamburger two days in a row. My favorite place to eat will be at McDonalds and get a happy meal it had a hamburger and it came with a toy. I remember will go there on Saturday because it was like a reward for going to school all week. As a child I felt good eating at a restaurant and not having to eat what my mom cooked. I would not consider fast food a family life style because we would only eat it on weekends not every day.

Now, today my eating fast food habits have change. When I was a child I would eat what my mom feed me but know is different. From 7 days in the week I eat fast food 4 to 5 days a week. It went form 2 times a week to 4/5 times I double the amount. On the daily bases I’ll go out to eat with some friends, on my school days that will be Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. It depends what we want to eat it varies form Toppers Pizza, McDonalds, Carl's Jr, Panda Express etc. Know my favorite place to eat will be toppers pizza I love how the cheese just melts and the crust. On the weekends I still eat fast food with my parents when we go out to have dinner. I have given fast food more importance in my life because it’s easier so get and its cheap. And like it’s easier to access I eat it at any time in the morning, afternoon or in the night. Fast food has gotten to be part of my daily life but I would like to change that in the future and try to eat less fast food.