Can you guess my lie?

Can you guess my lie?

11.     I snowboard every winter in Utah.

22.     My dad owns a ranch in Camarillo

33.     I love eating junk food

44.     I only drink water

55.     I have the master bedroom in my house

66.     I work at Oxnard High School

My Birthday Week

My Birthday Week

This hasn’t been easy for me the past couple weeks. My grandma recently passed away three weeks ago and barely two weeks ago they buried her and was very hard seeing that especially since she was living at my house for a long time. I was used to seeing her everyday when I got home from work. When, this sudden tragedy happen, I was afraid to ask for anything even dinner with my immediate family. My birthday is on October 15. I woke up and went to work just like any other day. I get there and my boss had baked me a mint chocolate chip cake. I thought it was very thoughtful of her to do that. I get home and there was nothing. I didn’t say anything about my birthday. Until this past Friday I made a comment that no one cares about me and I am not important. My parents had no idea what I was talking about until I told them they forgot my birthday.  All they said was “Happy Birthday.”

My Perspective on people

Jessica Mendez

My Perspective

            My perspective on people has changed since I was younger and including myself. When I was younger I thought I was perfect. Therefore, when I would see people do something I wouldn’t do then I would look down upon them. I never gave anyone any chances. I would just simply stop talking to them or just talk to them less. For instance, if you burped in public it was because I thought you had no shame and I thought you were a bad person all around due to one thing. Also, if one person didn’t do their work for school and simply got F’s in report cards; to me you were a bad person and just didn’t care.

            This simply changed when I started working at the age 13 in The Tutoring Center where I worked “behind the scenes.” I worked with students that had bad grades but when I got to know them, they had family problems or they found the work to be too easy and felt like they didn’t need to do the work. Its not only students, but people in general. Before I was short tempered with the most ridiculous comments or by their actions. If I saw someone do something to a friend, I would get upset or if they made a comment.

            Now I simply “just don’t care.” In the sense where if it doesn’t affect me or my family then I don’t care. I have other things to worry about such as my health, school and work and I should have to get worked up or get stressed for something or someone that doesn’t affect me. I now have patience with people and kids. I am much more understanding as well especially since I have been “behind the scenes.”

My distant family

Jessica Mendez

My Family

            As a typical Mexican, we come from where family is very important to us.  My family and I enjoy doing some extreme sports. When we were younger our motto was “We do it together, or we don’t do it all.” That was our motto for as long as I remember. Then all of a sudden, we grew up. As we got older, we all tend do to our own things and slowly that motto started to fade away.  My oldest sister, Cristina, still lives at home. Although, she may live at home and we see each other daily, she is always in her room and most of the time she would rather be by herself. My other older sister, who is also the middle child, well she moved in with her boyfriend. I rarely see her because well she is doing her own thing with her boyfriend and because we barely got along as well. As for my parents, well my mother is a stay home mom and my dad is an owner of a ranch in Camarillo. My dad and I still keep that motto. We always hang out and go do something exciting on the weekends. Whether it was hiking, snowboarding, swimming, kayaking or paddle boarding.  This tends to hurt my family because at one point we were close where we hung out every weekend and now we rarely talk to each other. Its as if we hate each other. The only time we talk or see each other is if an unexpected event occurs. Which to me is sad because there isn’t any communication between any of us.  My oldest sister Cristina is more of a girly girl where she dresses up everyday and puts on make up. She is very similar to my mom but my mom doesn’t put very much make up.  As for me my dad always tells me “You’re the boy I never had.” I always laugh when he tells me. My dad and I are very similar where we just don’t care if we get hurt, we just love to have fun and try new things. Sadly our family isn’t the same way but it wasn’t my choice nor my parents choice to conceive their other daughters.