Natalia Martinez is 32 years old and lives in her hometown Fairfield,CA with her husband of four years and two lovely children. You might of seen her working in the Solano County Office of Social Services but now she works as a stay at home mom. She takes care of her 3 year old boy, Ronaldo, while getting her 9 year old girl, Giselle, to school. She is a very humble but outspoken person who's not afraid to speak up when she has to, something she attributes to being the middle child and feeling the only way to be heard was to be loud, especially in a house with six children. She’s the type of person you always know you can count on whenever you have a problem. She faces every difficult situation in her life like Superwoman and does not let anything stop her from achieving her goals. …show more content…
When she was six years old, she had to move to America with her older brother and two sisters to get a more sustainable life. It was not easy for her, especially since there were so many customs she didn't get, it was a complete cultural shock. She said," To me everything was so different; the places, the people, even the language. Some things were so weird and new, for example even pizza because in the part of Mexico I lived in, I didn't have that stuff". It was not easy for Natalia and her siblings, she mentions how in school she felt like a complete outsider because she did not understand the other kids or their traditions and what she considered normal was weird for them. In addition to that, she had three brothers and two sisters while growing up, making it economically difficult for her parents to provide for the family. So while growing or going to school, she never thought college even an
Maria Perez was born on May 18, 1944 in Zacatecas, Mexico. She grew up in a farm name Santa Rita. She is the last middle child of four kids, and her parents own a farm. It was a small farm, but she loves it. Since she was five years old, she helped her parents by working in the farm. Her job was to feed the horses, cows, chickens, and pigs. She loves all her animals, but her favorite animal was horses. When she was young, she loved to ride her horses. She felt off the horse and hurt head when she was young. She said, “I’m thankful to the lord that I survive that hit.” She wasn’t a normal child when she was growing up because she would just work with her parents and not plays like other kids. She wanted to have a normal childhood, but she had to work with her parents. She described
When conducting this interview the interviewee was Karina. The theme that was explored throughout this interview was the theme of education. This interview was conducted on Friday, November 25th, 2016 at my house. The total length of this interview was 65 minutes. Karina is the only girl in her family of five including her parents and three brothers. When Karina first decided to immigrate to the United States, both of her parents were against it since they were preoccupied with the journey being extremely harsh for her. Karina is a first generation immigrant who immigrated to the United States at the age of 22 in 1989. She finished college in Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico and graduated with a nursing degree. Karina would have never been able to complete
Have you seen the red-haired girl, with a contagious laugh, and a permanent smile on her face as if it were painted? Well of course you have, her name is Sharon Shenderovskiy .
Natalia Chase isn't ready to have her babies, even after a tough eight months. When her doctor admits her to the hospital with concerns over a strange echo with the babies' heartbeats, she faces the most terrifying moment of her life. Logan begs her to let him change her to a lion so she'll be stronger through the delivery, but Nat fears losing herself before she even gets a chance to meet her kids. As the family gathers at the hospital and surprise after surprise wreaks havoc with all of Nat's careful planning, she'll have to face a heart-wrenching choice: save her kids or lose everything else, maybe even her life.
“When my dad got out my mother followed him to Mexico and I started living with a female PE teacher who acted as my guardian for 6 months”. This was an insightful experience for Rosa and helped her get away from home life and be in a safe environment. When she was ready, Rosa moved in with her sister and niece and started college at 17. During this time, Rosa’s father unfortunately was deported and got his citizenship taken away. Rosa was a part of an Upward Bound program which gave her the opportunity to spend every summer and live on a college campus. Rosa states that “it was a blast! And it was nice that I got school credit from it. This pushed me to college
The person that I see as a person of passion would have to be Lauren Fristrom. Lauren is my cousin who is 30 years old and is a Registered Nurse. I chose her because this Thanksgiving she had asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I told her that I have need to make the decision between a Veterinarian and a Registered Nurse. She asked me, “Which job interested you more”. I told her that I loved to help people and animals, but I had no idea which job I would have more fun and experiences with.
I originally planned a very short trip to see Angela Meade in Bellini's Norma at the Met and one NYCB Nutcracker, but my partner wanted to go along, so I made it a week trip and bought us both tickets to a second Nutcracker (he didn't go to the other shows). I told him he could fill the other nights with plays or musicals (what he likes) because he complained I usually fill up the vacation with a ballet or opera every single night. However, he decided he wanted us to have casual leisurely evenings at dinners instead. I was fine with that too and let him choose the places. In the past I have dominated what we do on vacations, and he has complained and tends to stay home nowadays, so this trip I let him decide everything besides the Norma and
SW met with Maria C. Aguilar to conduct an initial assessment. Maria C. Aguilar is a married Hispanic 60 year old Spanish speaking female born and raised in El Salvador. Up until the age of 5 she lived with her mother and father and 8 siblings. After the age of 5 she was sent to live with her aunt so she could work as a house cleaner. Mrs.
When Raquel Ruiz was four she was the happiest little girl in Ambato, Ecuador. She had all her family and her dad whom she really loved with her. Raquel had a big house and all the toys and food she could ever ask for. One night her mother married a wolf in sheep's clothing, her stepfather. He took her and her mom to the United States to live with him. From that moment on her happiness slowly withered away like a ripened banana. She didn’t have a nice house, toys, yummy food, and her dad. Her stepdad was a man with low self esteem and an empty wallet. Raquel saw her mother cry every night because she had been lied to about everything,who he was and how he lived in America. Despite her mother's struggles and emotional pain, her mother left him
I, Destinee Belle De La Cruz come from a mixed multicultural and multi-racal background. My mother immigrated to America from Dominican Republic, when she was about 3 years old. She grew up in a Spanish speaking household and growing up in the lower east side of manhattan, which is predominantly a Spanish majority area of New York, she grew up very immersed in the Dominican culture. My father on the other hand, as I, comes from a mixed background, as my fathers mother is white, of Irish decent, and my fathers dad, is of African American decent. My fathers parents are both from the south, Virginia, and they moved to New York City together in their early 20’s as there relationship was not accepted by the people in the south, nor their families.
There are many peers who have made a difference in my life, but when discussing this, there is one particular individual who has a distinction. Her name is Jalynn Sierra Borders, one of my best friends in the world. Jalynn has not only challenged me academically, but she keeps me on my toes in whatever I do, and I try to do the same with her. We met in 6th grade, and from watching her mature as a student, she helped me mature as well. My friends and I are constantly in academic competition with each other which is why we are such great friends and successful in the classroom and community. Jalynn truly inspires me to do my best academically at school, and I am grateful to her that she pushes me when I make that ‘C’ on a math test. She’s
She then told us all about her youth. I learned one important thing that although some parts of Mexico do follow the stereotypes that many Americans have put on their culture, there are places that don’t. We learned that how you’re raised just depends on how fortunate your family is and where they live. Mexico has huge cities, some which are huge tourist destinations, which have prestigious schools, with great nursing, architectural, business, and engineering programs. Sadly that was not the course life had chosen for her. She said she went to a small community school, which unlike here in America, was not free and had to be paid for. Most of the people in her town only made it up to the 6th or 7th grade, because their parents could no longer afford to pay for their education or they had to work to help pay bills at the house. Her parents were a bit more fortunate and managed to pay for her to graduate from “la prepa” (a school to prepare her for the university basically like our high schools here in the U.S). She said school down there was a privilege, and wasn’t taken for granted like many people do here in the
In the poverty-stricken streets of Colombia, my parents arose past hardships, hurdles and vices that could have otherwise bridled their ambitions or could have strayed them away from the foremost godly offering that would have ever entered their lives, me.
I interviewed Valente Martinez and I can tell that he is very pleasant. These are some basic facts about him. His nickname is Valentin, but prefers that people call him Valente. He is Mexican, is twenty and is single. He born in July 31, 1996 in Austin Texas. He lives at Austin with his parents since he born. He never moved to another place. Valente wants to become a master mechanic at Nissan and open his own auto shop within 10 years, he chooses that major because he loves fix cars; he hasn’t served for the military, he thought about it but changes his mind because he decided to go to Austin Community College and try it. When I talked to him about the school, he told me that he dislikes reading or writing, do homework, test, or going to school
Recently, I have purchased a “Platy-tat-tat” CD player from your company. Unfortunately, there was a rather strange issue with it. When I had inserted a CD and pressed play, a strange screeching noise erupted from the speakers. It sounded very similar to a cat with asthma screaming, a genuinely terrifying noise. Now, I have only been using this product for a short period of time. In fact, this was the first time I had used it since I had bought it from the Mart-Wal in east Centreville on March 31st.