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Hey well, this is my first blog, aside from tumblr, since it's kind of my own private thing, and this is actually going to be published unlike my other blog. Anyways I shall move on with this task, assigned by my English 115 teacher Mr. Henry Aronson.
Five: Random things about myself

1) I enjoy listening to weird music, its really hard for a band to catch my attention, I am into a band called Primus winch is one of my favorite bands, I have many more, another would be Pink Floyd, I really admire any form of psychedelic rock. I see myself being a misfit in the 70's.
My name is mud- primus link below if anyone interested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=953PkxFNiko

3) I grew up in Tijuana/Chula vista. Honestly its half and half. I have been back and forth many times. I identify myself greatly with my will you call "native country", if that term even fits. I enjoy exploring my roots. Too bad I'm in the U.S. trying to survive at the moment.

4) I am known to care to much about others. People look at me and never expect me to be as sensitive as I am. I must admit, if i have the feelings, I can merely cry over anything, because the sensitivity is real. If you have seen me cry, you have seen who I truly am, because I indeed hide this from many people.

5) I enjoy solitude. Lots of it. I like people but I can only be around a crowd for so long, Throw me in a room with food and an instrument, and I will be sane for about a month, true story. I consider myself to be a very weird individual.

Four!?...Items on my bucket-list:

1) I have yet to see one of my favorite bands live such as Primus. BUT this will change by November the 22nd since they are coming to SanDiego. Happy? Yes very much

2) Build the courage to play for a real audience. I mostly hold back from this because I do not consider my playing good enough. When I feel good enough I will probably come forth.

3) Learn to skateboard good enough to do actual tricks. I can barely do an Ollie as it is. I consider myself to have good balance.

4) I wish to have a house of my own. Preferably a hidden house, I like hiding.
Three! Goals in life:

1) Actually finish my major and be a software engineer. I would love to work for some sort of website, social media, anything that people interact with. I would even consider making video games, or video game software. Would love to work for Microsoft.

2) I would love to have a separate career in animation. I want to make cartoons just like the ones I grew up with. For example, "courage the cowardly dog", "Dexter's Laboratory," "Catdog," "Ed, Edd, and Eddy," something weird and surrealistic
3) Have a nice life with a loved one who shares similar creative thoughts. I need somebody who pushes my creative side out there. I love to draw and paint, its not my hobbie but I enjoy it. I am better at things involving music. But of course music and art fall into similar categories.

Two! Moments in school that made me laugh or cry:

1) Moment of sadness. As you recall I have the tendency to cry a lot. In first grade I cried because, while we were listening to the teacher, Mrs. Williams, a very mean, somewhat old, white teacher yelled at me for farting very loudly in front of the whole class, while we were criss crossed applesauce.

2) Another moment of sadness. When I was called to the counselor for failing math 8. I was told by my parents my guitar would be taken away until my grades went up again. Lots of crying.

One...Thing I wish people knew about me:
Well my personality type is, INFJ, ( http://www.opp.com/MBTI, if you're into personality types). I love that I can learn about how I work but I hate the fact that I feel a bit labeled . I am a feeler. I consider myself to be very open minded, but i'm not perfect.

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Hey well, this is my first blog, aside from tumblr, since it's kind of my own private thing, and this is actually going to be published unlike my other blog. Anyways I shall move on with this task, assigned by my English 115 teacher Mr. Henry Aronson.

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Carla Ibarra / 18 years old / Southwestern College

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Creativity to me is Imagination. You simply can not be creative if you do not have Imagination. You can litterally take pages from magazines and glue them together and be creative but this process can only be done with Imagination.

You can throw paint on a wall like Jackson Pollock and be creative.

I think to often that we associate creativity with being extremely talented with complex art and this is a problem.

you do not have to be able to draw or paint an entire scene with dragons and space ships to be creative. You could literally take a urinal from a bathroom and nail it to a tree and be creative like Duchamp art piece titled fountain.

There is a great amount of creativity found in simplicity. Sometimes its not the big painting that is the most creative but the simple one that may have no paint on it what so ever.

What is not being creative the only thing I can think of to answer this is to directly copy someone and not transform the idea in any way for example you take a blank canvas and paint a single dot in the center and then I come along and do the exact same thing.

This to me is not being creative now if I had added another dot maybe below or above it then it would have been creative because I would of transformed the idea into my idea, my own creation. This is the same idea that goes along with cutting out adds from magazines or just anything and pasting them together if I cut out a bottle of shampoo and a picture of the ocean and glue them together I'm being creative. We are to hooked an the grandeur of creativity on the spectacle that some people can create and when our creations pale in comparison we feel down about this.

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Creativity to me is Imagination. You simply can not be creative if you do not have Imagination. You can litterally take pages from magazines and glue them together and be creative but this process can only be done with Imagination. You can throw paint on a wall like Jackson Pollock and be creative.

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My Strengths As A Student

1) I'm open-minded

Willing to listen to others opinion, I open myself up to new experiences, even if I don't agree or always believe in those opinions. I do my best to accept everyone for what they are and judge them by their actions to others, then their appearance, sexuality, gender or beliefs...((unless those beliefs are harmful to others)).

2) I'm a critical thinker

I spend a LOT of time analyzing everything, looking into the deeper meaning ((anything from a character to a show, to a point in history or media)). I love being given something and getting to evaluate and review, stating what I loved about it, or what I disliked about it, or mentioning something that hasn't been said yet. It gives me a chance to not only state my opinion, but really search through the story to find the things others don't notice, or to see a important detail, woven into the bigger picture.

3) I'm creative

From a very young age I was filled with an imaginative mind, so massive I had to run up and down the stairs to release some of that excessive energy. Even today, I still need to run around just to get out all that energy. Wanting to be a writer, especially a fiction writer, means I need to be constantly thinking of story ideas, and that I need to think out of the box for each one of them so they never sound like the same recycled crap.

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My Strengths As A Student 1) I'm open-minded Willing to listen to others opinion, I open myself up to new experiences, even if I don't agree or always believe in those opinions. I do my best to accept everyone for what they are and judge them by their actions to others, then their appearance, sexuality, gender or beliefs...((unless those beliefs are harmful to others)).

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Arlette Arenas / 18 years young / Southwestern College

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My name is a very unpleasing name. People can pronounce it wrong and consider it to be a girls name. Some students will end up looking at me thinking like, "what kind of a name is that", and then giggle about it. I have always planned through my life that I will change my name when I soon become 18, but still, I have not changed it yet. I know from back in the past I had very multiple nicknames that I still use that can help very much rather than be called by my first regular name.

When I first played video games I first was playing with professionals and on the video games I had a profile that was to be named. Some friends suggested to put my name as "JAYDEEZ"(a.k.a. Deez Nutz) or "JDizzle18". They were trying to give suggestion based on my first and middle name initials "J.D.". After that I had decided to go with their first suggestion.

At school and work now a days some people call me just by Jay, or Castro, or just the regular J.D., Jdizzle, or El Chino. I'm fine with either one of those. I know I
am still deciding what to change my name to because for sure my first name will change, but then I will lose some of my old nicknames. Hopefully though I will think of a fabulous name for me rather than a simple, plain, mispronounced one that people have trouble with. I even tell my parents, "why did you give me a difficult name, but everyone else in the family got a simple nice name?"

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My name is a very unpleasing name. People can pronounce it wrong and consider it to be a girls name. Some students will end up looking at me thinking like, "what kind of a name is that", and then giggle about it.

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Recently, i finished a project for my design class. We needed to make something abstract with a book. The book had to also interact with the drafting table through movement. So i took my book and made it in a way that it showed interesting but simple forms (architecturally speaking).

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Five facts:

1-. I LOVE How I met your Mother, the story, the life advices they give throughout the show, its just so perfect, i have seen it at least twice.
2-. I joined the basketball team back in middle school just because i wanted to be taller... didn't work, i'm currently 5.1 but i don't mind anymore(:

3-. I met Dylan o'Brien and Taylor Posey at comic-con 2014. Those pictures and videos are probably my pride and joy. For those who dont know who they are, they part of the main cast of Teen Wolf
4-. I used to have 12 cats, yes im a cat lover no shame on that, i only have one now, her name is Pichurra but since no one knows how to pronounce that everybody calls her churra♥

5-. I've been to Greece, Turkey and Spain, probably the best thing i have done in my life.

Four things on my Bucket list:

1-. Learn how to swim, I know is stupid that I don't know how, believe me I know that.
2-. Travel around Latin America, I feel like everybody wants to go to Europe, I want to go to Brazil, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Chile, learn from their cultures.
3-. Learn Portuguese.
4-. I want to pet a lion/tiger either one of them is fine for me.

Three goals:

1-. I want to become a kindergarten teacher, I like taking care of children and people have told me I'm really good at teaching.
2-. Transfer to a university and graduate
3-. Be successful in life. By successful I mean being happy and working in what I love.

Two things that have made me laugh/cry at school:

1-. Once in my math class I was sitting next to a friend and my teacher was explaining something so everyone was quiet. I turned around to see my friend and she took her tongue out, so I tried to do the same and going "Aaaaaah" but instead of that I burped. It wasn't so loud, but since everyone was quite everyone heard that. My friend and I started cracking up, thanks god no one said anything, not even the teacher reacted to what happened, I guess they were all into math at that moment.
2-. There was a thing we did back in high school called Breaking Down the Barriers where random students would be selected and spend the whole day at this program, we would sit together and just talk, hearing my teammates' stories made me cry and made me realize how we all have some problems in our life but no matter what life gets better and you are never alone.

One thing I would like people to know about me:

1-. I am probably the most optimistic person you would ever met. Honestly, is weird to see me sad or angry, and I don't mean that I'm never am, it just that I have learn how to see life in a positive way.

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain" -Ted Moby (How I met your Mother)

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1-. I LOVE How I met your Mother, the story, the life advices they give throughout the show, its just so perfect, i have seen it at least twice. 2-. I joined the basketball team back in middle school just because i wanted to be taller...

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Valeria.
Valeria is a female name dating back to the latin verb valere, meaning "to be healthy" or "to be strong".
Right. So true.
Thats sarcasm by the way.
To be honest, I dont think that my name defines me, but if it did, I would definitely have to change it from Valeria to something else. I dont think of myself as being particularly healthy OR strong as all.
I dont consider myself to have those traits but rather, i don have a strong trair on myself, which is honesty.

So if I could change my name, it would be a name that meant honest.

Or HONESTLY, I would change it to any name that I liked as well, because I did look up name and none of them seem like they could fit me either.

I guess what Im trying to say it that even though like I feel the meaning of my name does not apply to me, I also feel like my name does not define me.

Its not like people see me and think "oh her name is Valeria, she must be healthy and strong."

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Valeria. Valeria is a female name dating back to the latin verb valere, meaning "to be healthy" or "to be strong". Right. So true. Thats sarcasm by the way. To be honest, I dont think that my name defines me, but if it did, I would definitely have to change it from Valeria to something else.

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Retired Marine Challenged Bloggily

Fife (5) things about me: Pretty Generic (K.I.S.S.)

-Immigrated from the Philippines
-Graduated High School in 1991

-Played High School Football all 4 years

-3 combat tours; Iraq (2) and Afghanistan (1) and came home with everybody

-7 deployments in 19 years not including JTF-160 (Humanitarian assistance to Cuba and Haiti)

Fow-er (4) World Tour Bucket List: The Marine Corps has given me an opportunity to see and learn the world (Jamaica, France, Italy, Israel, Turkey, Tunisia, Egypt, Spain, Greece, Japan, Indonesia, Timor, Australia, Thailand).

-See Rome again (what really got me to get into History/ what I plan on majoring)

-Visit Washington D.C. (Know more about my country)

Tree (3) Goals to do after the Marine Corps

-Get a degree (see world tour bucket list)

-Coach or Officiate High School Football (see fife things about me)

- Teach History (see fife things about me and world tour bucket list)

Too (2) Moments in high school that disappointed/proud of high school

-Going 0-10 in football my senior team

-Being named captain for the football team in 5 of the 10 games (4-games by coaches, last game by the players)

Wun (1) Thing that I want the world to know about me:
-I delivered with my own hands my second child in my house in Oceanside, CA. Baby was ready to come out and see the world and the wife couldn't keep her in, so daddy had to take care of the situation. Mission accomplished.

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Retired Marine Challenged Bloggily Fife (5) things about me: Pretty Generic (K.I.S.S.)

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Ming-Hua, a character from the Legend of Korra (animated series).

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"Necesitamos un nombre fuerte, y noble a la vez. Un nombre sabio, pero un nombre maduro; e inocente para una criaturita. Jorge."

"We need a name that's strong, and noble at the same time. A wise name, but also a mature name; and innocent for a little creature. Jorge."

Both my sister and I got our first names from our parents: Gaby and Jorge, respectively. However, I was never called Jorge Jr. and instead was simply "Jorge". For a long time, I've actually quite liked my name, as here in the states it's unique enough and I guess it sort of suits me. I even looked up the definition of it, and found that it means "earth worker", which is usually interpreted as "farmer".

However, I used to find my name a very complicated and annoying subject to deal with. During many of my years in school, my name was an easy target of teasing. To give you an idea, I'll give you the pronunciations of my my first and last name: hor-he, key-rohs. If you still don't understand what I mean by "easy target", I'll spell it out: whore hey queeros. Yeah. Occasionally, they'd mix it up by putting a pause between the two syllables of my first name, or by reversing them, saying "hey whore". Needless to say it was very painful and annoying for me growing up, but as the years passed, it was said so much I began feeling that it was less painful, and rather just dumb and childish.

Childhood memories aside, there isn't much to say about my feelings about my name. However, I will say it's amusing how many people ask me how to say my name or ask me if they can call me something else. It's actually kind of nice to be known by different names. Something equally amusing but more inconvenient is the misspellings of my last name. The proper way to write it is "Quirós", and is usually spelled "Quiros". However, a variant using a "z" at the end also exists, and is how some people write it, especially if I don't specify. The most bizarre spelling I've seen of my last name though is definitely "Quirroz". I get why someone would think that, but at the same time, it's a really outlandish assumptions.

Well, there you have it, my thoughts on my name. Less humorous than usual, but hey.

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"Necesitamos un nombre fuerte, y noble a la vez. Un nombre sabio, pero un nombre maduro; e inocente para una criaturita. Jorge." "We need a name that's strong, and noble at the same time. A wise name, but also a mature name; and innocent for a little creature. Jorge."

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My name was created by the one I call "Ate" (Aw-teh). "Jasmine" is the name she wrote on her papers in 6th grade. Fate and Destiny befriended her one Friday afternoon as she took a longer look at her own name on paper and a lit bulb appeared inside her head.

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There are many superpowers to choose from....
At first I chose the power to read minds in order to enhance ideas and thinking but I came to the conclusion I will eventually abuse its power and use it against others instead of promoting the common good.
But the one I will choose is for the answer pertaining to a subject such as English, Math, History, be in my mind whenever a question or assignment is asked without the need to think or search for it. I chose this one because I would often fantasize about having this power multiple times in the classroom, so why not have it.

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There are many superpowers to choose from.... At first I chose the power to read minds in order to enhance ideas and thinking but I came to the conclusion I will eventually abuse its power and use it against others instead of promoting the common good.

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This place is were I written where my ideas, life topics, Films, anime, and sometimes video games. I'm doing this to get out of my shell, and try to explain myself for reason why I like this these topic or hate them sometimes.

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Where I come from the tortillas are a MUST
Using them in place of spoons and forks.
Living near the border, just five minutes away
In that 92154 neighborhood, In what they call the Nestor apartments.
Where everything is neat, in its place,
where there is no cable but we still get them Mexican channels.
Where we go for Chivas(even though they suck)
Where you always hear the kids playing outside
﻿ Where you got the cholo neighbors
Where you always get the second hand smoking, but,
Where we struggle daily, but always persevere
Where mother always cooks, and dad always works
Getting home you always feel wanted, you always feel safe,
you always feel like you belong, you always feel welcomed
My family is always united, always together, never apart.
We keep each other strong, believing in one another
This is what I call my home

Where the cushions are neat, where everything is in place
Everybody cooperates, no exceptions
Where the oldest brother is never home, where my dad always sleeps,
where my mom always makes the best of the days
No one is left behind. Everyone eats together.
In the day we hang out in the living room, at night everyone in their rooms.
There's pictures all over the walls, there is Jesus Christ everywhere,
This is a place where you will always hear the television on, where you will always hear my family talking, where my little brother is the "secretary" of the house, where we enjoy our time together.
This is a place where we always speak Spanish, where English is not permitted when directed towards my parents,
They say "somos mexicanos, no me salgas con tus mamadas" and hence the Spanish.
Where my brothers and I grew up with Spanish as a first language and English as a second.
We are five, we are odd, we are awesome, we are unique.
This household is one of a kind, irreplaceable
This is what I call my home

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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Where I come from the tortillas are a MUST Using them in place of spoons and forks. Living near the border, just five minutes away In that 92154 neighborhood, In what they call the Nestor apartments. Where everything is neat, in its place, where there is no cable but we still get them Mexican channels.

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Most people enjoy their names, while other go by their middle names. I'm one of those people that have a love hate relationship with their names. I love my name for the most part. It means guardian in an Irish language, Gaelic. It's a nice and short name which rolls off the tongue. It's become one of my favourite names, but I think that might be a bit biased for me to say. Others seem to like it too. One of my old high school teacher's first words to me was, "Oh I love that name." That kind of shocked me at first and somewhat creepy, but she later became one of my favourite teachers. I used to not like my name as a kid since I could never find it on key chains. I don't really mind that now, but there is one thing that bugs me the most. People never get my name right. Whenever I greet people for the first time, I tell them my name and then they say, "nice to meet you Leo." or, "It's a pleasure to meet you William." I went to hot dog on a stick and they asked me for my name and on the receipt, they put Lloyd as my name. Really? How do you get Lloyd from Liam? This has recently made me say, "Hi my name is Liam like Liam Neeson." whenever I tell people my name. This has worked 100 percent of the time... Thank god. I don't know how much more I could handle of being called Leo or... Lloyd...

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Most people enjoy their names, while other go by their middle names. I'm one of those people that have a love hate relationship with their names. I love my name for the most part. It means guardian in an Irish language, Gaelic. It's a nice and short name which rolls off the tongue.

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Three STRENGTHS As A STUDENT

OPEN TO NEW IDEAS:
Although i'm very opinionated i'm always open to hear what others have to say, Taking other peoples ideas into consideration can often help you in many ways. not everyone thinks the same way so for someone else to tell you their ideas it could help you see things in a different perspective.

GREAT LISTENER;
I've always been a good listener as far as i can remember, I've always been that friend that everyone goes to so they can vent. i'm also the type to always have my ears open, meaning i can listen to more then one conversation at a time. weather its just passing by people or in class, I tend to pick up bits and pieces of peoples conversations without trying to.

FRIENDLY:
Believe it or not I'am a very friendly person, i know most people say they hesitate to talk to me at first because i look mean, but I'm really one of the nicest people you will meet. i tend to have a mean look on my face when its really sunny outside because my eyes are really sensitive the the sun and i don't really like wearing sunglasses. so if you see me don't be scared to say hello.

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Three STRENGTHS As A STUDENT OPEN TO NEW IDEAS: Although i'm very opinionated i'm always open to hear what others have to say, Taking other peoples ideas into consideration can often help you in many ways. not everyone thinks the same way so for someone else to tell you their ideas it could help you see things in a different perspective.

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In the year 2010 my Favorite teacher Mrs. Whaley was hit with some horrible news that would change her life for ever. Both her daughters Kailyn and Charis had been diagnosed with Mitochondrial Disease at the ages of 1 and 2.

Ever Since then, Mrs. Whaley has been fighting to help find a cure for her beautiful little girls.

Two years ago, she decided to put on a walk called The Mito Walk and Roll 5K

I have participated in every single way possible that I could to help Mrs. Whaley with what ever it was that she needed to make this a successful event.

The 2013 Mito Walk went fantastically so we decided to put on this year in 2014.

The walk has turned out to be such a success that it has been decided that this is going to be an annual event for as long as anyone of us involved in her life live.

We plan on keeping this going for as long as the moon is still in the earths orbit.

This year she put each individual up to a challenge, she challenged to us to make as much money as possible.

I took on this challenge. not because I wanted a prize but because I knew the amount of great things that could be done if we all achieved to make large amounts of money to be donated to the cause.

How was I gonna make this money you ask? Well I proceeded to tell local businesses about her story and ask them for donations of any kind, such as gift baskets for the raffle, money for the walk, or even small percentages of their daily makings.

I asked my mom and several of my family members to please take my letters to their work and explain to them the cause and reasoning behind all this.

In a matter of weeks, my Moms work was able to donate more than $700 dollars, my aunts work (the Zoo) donated free tickets for the raffle, and local businesses proceeded to donate gift baskets.

That was the biggest Accomplishment of my life.

I alone raised over $1,000 dollars for the cause.

For nothing in return but self pride.

This is one of the things that no one really knows about me because its not something that really comes up in conversation or anything, but it really was my greatest accomplishment.

I got to help two of the most beautiful girls in the world.

And even though I no longer go to High school with Mrs. Whaley I still continue to help with everything that I can. These girls and their stories have deeply affected my heart.

Because of this, I Encourage everyone to Donate towards the cause! Even if its a Dollar, its still a dollar more than we had before (:

You can Donate at: Online Donations

Help save lives!

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I am colorblind. People always tease me by asking, "Oh, what color is this?"

I play baseball. I have played ever since I was 4 years old and I was even lucky enough to play on the same team with my dad.

I own a Camaro. I named it "The White Warrior" because it is white and it is fierce.

My mom is my role model. Witnessing all the hard work she has put in growing up makes me want to be just as strong as her.

I am studying to become a nurse. I am a very caring person and I just always want to help people.

I want to go sky diving

I want to legally street race my Camaro

I want to run a marathon

I want to travel all around Europe, such as Italy, France and Ireland

Become a nurse

Own a corvette

Live in a giant house with my family

Junior year of high school in my history class my teacher kept repeating the words "Sea men" and I could not for the life of me stop laughing.

Every morning I would walk to school. I lived so close to it that all I would do is jump my backyard fence, go down a small slope and cross the street and I would be there. One morning I was going down the slope, I slipped and landed in mud. A lot of kids saw me, so I just went back up the slope and stayed home because I was so embarrassed.

I am a very kind and respectful person. I may look like I am always pissed, but I never am. I love meeting new people and am also very easy to talk to. If you ever need a friend, I will always be here!

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5 to 1 I am colorblind. People always tease me by asking, "Oh, what color is this?" I play baseball. I have played ever since I was 4 years old and I was even lucky enough to play on the same team with my dad. I own a Camaro.