mY eDUCATION
Kindergarten
I remember my first day of school I attended to Edison Elementary, I was so anxious to start school. I lived across from Edison. School started at 12pm and I was waiting outside my house like at 11. My mom was talking to me telling me to be good and to pay attention, she also told me to treat people with respect and not to fight. When I entered to my class I saw a lot of kids I was nervous. Everyone was quite and I started to talk with this little girl I told her “hi what’s your name” and she said “don’t talk to me” and took her tongue out. She was mean to me but I remembered what my mom said so I didnt I treated the girl mean even thou I wanted to beat her up. She was so mean nobody wanted to talk to her. So I saw how people treated her and they were so mean to her and like to hit her. One day I told everyone to leave her alone and they did and I became her friend and no one messed with here any more. The lesson I think I learned here is to be respectful to people no matter how they are.
First grade
I was so angry one morning I want into class mad at the world. I didn’t want to talk to no one or do my work. The teacher kept complaining and telling me to do my work but didn’t want to. There was this little boy who kept bugging me and I told him to leave me alone and he didn’t. I kept getting madder and madder. It was time to do art work we were going to do masks so I was pasting he passed by and pulled my hair so I threw him the glue and it hit him in the head he started to cry and the teacher saw when I hit him I got in so much trouble I didn’t get to play for recess or lunch and didn’t get free time, I was so mad. The lesson I learned here was to make sure the teacher isn’t looking when you hit someone.
Second Grade
“No quire ir a la escuela” (I don’t want to go to school) I said “tienes que ir apuerate” (you have to go so hurry up) my mom said. I didn’t want to go to school that day, there was this girl called Wendy who always kept bugging me because I was fat. I knew today she was going to make my day miserable since today was Olympics day and just because I was fat she thought I couldn’t do well in physical activities. So I showed up to school looking mad so I could intimidate her. So I walked in the classroom and she starts laughing saying “she came” and “she is so fat I doubt she can run”. While the teacher is taking attendance and Wendy kept looking back and laughing all I did was roll my eyes at her. The competitions was starting and everyone in the class comes ready to run and do fun activities. I have been having fun all day doing the monkey bars, the hula hoop, jump roping and finally the big one came the around the school lab everyone was competing to win first place so I was with my friends and Wendy and her friends came up to me saying “ are you sure you want to run if I was you I will just watch” and I said “no I wanna run” and she just laughed again with her friend I hated her laugh like I hated her. The race started I started to run she was ahead of me but I was to mad to let her beat me so I ran so fast all in my mind was win her so I did I was one the 3rd girl to end up and she was the 5th. That was the happiest day of second grade I was so happy, she never made fun again because she knew what I would tell her and she was a slow runner. I learned whatever motivation you have can make you accomplish what you want.
Third grade
“Hahahahaha” I said to Brook “you always loose” we were playing tether ball, she just rolled her eyes at me and I back. I would always make fun of Brook always calling her names. I hated her she would get on my nerves. She thought that my best friend was her best friend and it wasn’t like that. I used to bully her always when she was jumping rope I would go take it away from her. There was this one day thou we were hanging out it was Brook, Ramona (Bf), Eduardo, David and me. I had been nice that day to Brook since she was hanging out with me I thought maybe she could be cool but she took advantage Brook for the first time was being mean time. I couldn’t believe it she left me in shock trying to make fun of me because I didn’t have a boyfriend calling me dumbass I remember I went home so mad at here thinking she was going to pay for what she said, I was laying on my bed for a while until I was remembering that the same way she treated me I treated her. So I was so mad at myself for thinking how mean I was. After that day I treated Brook nice she actually became my best friend. The lesson I learned was to treat people the way you want to be treated.
Fourth grade
March 28, 1993 I was looking at all those students playing outside and I was in class because I didn’t want do my stupid homework. I hated my teacher her name was Mrs. Sconiors, She would always pick on me. She would always say how she was a good girl growing up and how smart she was. There was this mug she liked a lot always saying how she got it the story of it was her daughter had given it to her in mothers day she had gone to Maryland to visit her grandsons she didn’t talk to her daughter for 3 months and her daughter had surprised her with going to pick her up to the airport. Mrs. Sconiors would always talk about it. So that day the mug was like on the corner of the table it looked like it was going to fall down so I went by and acted like I accidental tipped it and it fell and broke. She was sad the rest of the day just looking at the mug she didn’t tell me nothing she just asked how it fell and I said that it was in accident I said “I just passed and it fell, it was by the tip of the table” she didn’t question me after. I thought she was going to be super mad but I think she was just sad. I felt so bad after that just thinking how mean that was and the lesson I learned that day was don’t let your anger take control of yourself.
Fifth Grade
I finally was starting middle school. The school I was attending was Wilson Middle School. I was so exited, I was thinking yes I’m big now. I had new friends. I was changing physically and mentally. I hung out with a lot of girls. My favorite ones were Yazmin, Karen, Kassandra, and Claudia. I loved these girls. I sometimes thought they were a bad influence for me, they always use to steal a lot, I never had stolen because my parents had always taught me not to. So one day we all went to the mall and there was this little Hello Kitty wallet I wanted but I didn’t have enough money so I didn’t get it my friends told me to steal it but I said no they kept insisting, they said to me “why are you so scared, just get it” I responded “no what if I get caught my mom will kill me” and they kept telling me to do it, so I finally did It. When I was almost getting out of the store this guy comes and tells me “empty your bags” I said “no why?” and he just got me and told me if I didn’t he was going to call the police so I did as he told, I emptied them he saw the Hello Kitty wallet and called my parents, my friends left me there and I got in so much trouble when I got home, my mom gave me a good whooping. I learned that just because your friends do something it gives them the right to tell you to do it too.
Sixth Grade
“Hey you guys” Jenny said, she was new, Luz and I said Hi back “What school you come from” I said “I just moved here from L.A” jenny said all I said was “oh”. Jenny, Luz, and I were became good friends, we shared secrets, hang out a lot, sleep over each others houses. We were good friends but I liked Jenny better then Luz. Luz wasn’t a good friend and I didn’t like how she was. Jenny and I would always talk smack about her so one day I was said “I’m no going to talk to her” and jenny said the same thing, but as soon as I got in the classroom I saw jenny talking to her and I got so mad and told her “Why you talking to her” and she said “Well she’s my friend”. Jenny didn’t talk to me that day I was so mad. Then the next day she didn’t talk to Luz but to me and then the day after that she talked to Luz but no to me. That got me so mad that I told her she better choose between me or Luz and she chose me. We didn’t talk to Luz in school. One day I went to Jenny’s house and saw Luz there I got so mad so I went home. At school jenny made this dumb story up about why Luz was there I didn’t believe her thou. I stayed being her friend till this day I’m still Jenny’s friend but the lesson I learned was to never be dumb and hang out with fake friends.
Seventh Grade
In seventh grade was so cool I had a class with only eight students we were in there because supposable we needed more attention but I knew why we were in there we all were bad kids never listened to the teachers we never paid attention. I loved those classes thou I never did anything and I still wonder I the teachers gave me good grades witch I think they did. I only had two teachers Mr. Dickemen and Mr. Lloyd. They were both cool but Mr. Dickemen was the nicest one he was so cool he always gave us things, take us to eat, he would take us hiking and he would talk to us give us good advice. I think that we never were the same with him we would take advantage of him, always being disrespectful, never appreciate him. So one day no one was paying attention to him and he just exploded of anger he started to yell it was the first time we saw him act like that I couldn’t believe it. After that day Mr. Dickemen never was the same he would be super strike on us, never took any bull from us anymore it sucked because we never had the same teacher he was I already you shouldn’t take people for granted.
Eighth Grade
It was 12:30 in the morning of July 21, 2007. I was sleeping over at my friends house when my friends mom went to wake me up in the room she said “Brenda vete para tu casa”( go to your house)I said “porque”(why) she said “solo vete”(just go). I left to my friends house to go to mine, which we lived two houses down. When I got there I noticed a lot of people outside with sad faces and I thought oh my god what is happening. So I go inside my house and see my mom, aunts, brother, and some cousins crying I hear my mom screaming “no mi hijo no sue pudo a ver muerto”! and I said “que pasa”?(what’s going on) nobody said anything so I told my dad “WHATS GOING ON”!? he said “tu hermano Cristian se muero” ( your brother Cristian just died) I was speechless when my dad told me that I felt super sad it was a big shock it felt like a nightmare I couldn’t wake up from. My bother lived in Alabama he had got in a car accident with his family. Some of our family members that lived over there had told us what happened they said there was a person behind them when the accident happened it was like angel sent from God to help them he helped my brother when he was still alive, he helped my baby nephew when he was choking on the sit belt and took it off him and went to my sister in law and she kept yelling “my sons” and he went to look from my other nephew he heard him crying by some trees he help the kids and took them to my sister in law. They took my brother to the hospital he was dead when he got over there. My nephews were ok but my sister in law broke both of her arms. This was the most painful event that has happened in my live I lost my oldest brother, the person I most admire, and the coolest friend in the world. This event hurt me and my family a lot, what I mostly hurt was I couldn’t even go to his funeral. Till this day I still remember the good days with my brother and two years after his death I got to see his graveyard he was buried in Honduras. The lesson I learned was that life is hard and especially when you loose someone you really love.
