Personal Essay Reflection

When writting my personal essay it was hard for me to choose one thing that I wanted to write about. I had may different things I wanted to write about like my trip to Disney world, moving homes, going to different schools, figuring out how to pay for college and more.

The reason I chose the topic for my personal essay because it was a big part of my life and made me who I was as a person today. One person taught me what its like to be thankful for what I have and never let a day go away without living it till your fullest, taught to be strong and not to fear the un known. Jasmin was the topic of my essay she is the best person in my life, my best friend she has her days where she can be feeling down but then other days where she is a ball of light. Those days you don't want to bring her down you just want to keep that smile on her face, on the days she's feeling down your want to just sit with her and let her know you're there for her.

The thing that was hard for me when writing my personal essay was trying to figure out how to put everything in like a story form. It was a quite a challenge for me because this was also a topic I felt strongly about and wanted to make sure the essay was well written. I must have revised this essay over 6 times I had a couple of my friends look at it, my writers workshop tutor and myself just rereading it, taking stuff out and adding things in. The things that helped me to write this was the in class activity we did where we just wrote whatever came to mind in like list form that helped me like just think about that instead thinking about everything all at once.

My informative speech topic

Selena is a person who lives on in me because she taught me that no matter where you come from or who you are you can do it. So for my coms class we are doing our informative speech and my topic is Selena Quintanilla. Selena was an American singer song writer and a fashion trendsetter, she also made music history.

A little bit about her she was born in lake Jackson, Texas and was in a band called Selena y los dinos which was managed and produced my her father Abraham. She really didn't have much of a childhood because the band took up most her time. While kids were playing outside she was at home practicing and trying to perfect her voice. She became more popular when she started singing at her family restaurant and soon started getting local fans.

She later on opened a boutique to sell her clothes in. She was into the flashy and outgoing styles like bright colors and different patterns. She won Grammys and she was also the first female Tejano singer. Her fans called her the "queen of Tejano music". On March 31st, 1995 her life was cut short when she was shot by Yolanda Salvidar. Who was her close friend, president of her fan club and managed her two stores. Later found out that Yolanda was embezzling money she took over 60,000 dollars. she is not in jail for life but is up for parole in 2025. The last words Selena said was "Yolanda room 158". She left behind her husband christian Perez who was her lead guitarist in the band. Her fans were in a state of shock since she died at a young age, Selena was only 23. Some of her fans flew thousands of miles to see where she died at and to pay respect.

Diversity Inclusion Week

For diversity inclusion week my friends and I decided to go to the soccer game against eastern Illinois university. The thing was we didn't know where the game was at, you would think we have common sense and go to the field but nope. We literally walked around the whole entire campus trying to find where this game was at. After walking for a while we heard the announcements going on from the game and finally we found where it was held at.

When we made it to the game we walked inside and sat on the bleachers, I was happy I brought a sweater because towards the night it got kind of cold and I would have been freezing. Seeing the game brought back memories from when I played and made me miss it. The game was overall good they won 5 to 1.

Overall it was fun I got to hang out with my friends while watching soccer which was cool since I like the sport. The sunset was also really nice. The sky turned a purple to orange which was pretty cool. It was nice way to relax and not have to worry about home work for once and just watch the game.

About Lucy

I recently took this picture of my dog Lucy. This photo is one of my favorites because of the way she's posing, she looks very professional (It took a-lot of treats to get her to sit like this).

A little big about my dog, she is 7 years old so she is 49 years old in dog years. She still has a lot of energy for her age except, she does not like walking. When we take her out for a walk she either wants to go inside right away, she will literally pull me towards the house. 

Lucy wasn't suppose to be our "forever" dog you can say we were only pet sitting her at first until the owner could find her a home. The original owner that her loved her a-lot he was training her to be a K-9 dog but he got allergic to the amount of fur she would shed and could no longer have her. My cousin was the one who told about it and we were happy to giver her a home for a while. Our family got attached quickly and after a month we adopted her. Shes been with us ever since.

Movies in the park!

I always heard about the movies they play in down town at millennium park. I would see post on facebook about what time the movie starts and when its playing. It's actual name it's called is the summer film series.

I live 15 minutes away from Chicago but never went to a movie in the park.  So over the summer my friends and I decided to go for the first time. The day we decided to go was the day that "Love Simon" was playing. We went to Walmart to buy some snacks so if we get hungry we had something to munch on. When we got to the park we had to set everything up so we put our blankets down took out our snacks and since we got there a bit early to find a good spot we played a game of UNO to pass the time.

Overall the movie was really good I enjoyed watching it and then at the end, everyone reaction was so cool. I will definitely to do this again next summer. The only thing I would do next time is to bring more blankets as it may be hot durning the day but once the sun went down it got really cold.

Getting tacos!

My friends and I went to the Latin chill event at the latino resource center the other day. They had music and ice cream but the best thing they had were the tacos. They brought a taco trunk and we got to get free tacos. I enjoyed hanging out with my friends and getting able to be with people who are from my culture and also people who want to learn more about the culture. It was a good way for me to talk to people and learn new things about other people on campus. 

"This is water"