Where Im From

I was born in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.
I have, however like here in San Diego for more than 12 years, I consider this place to be my home.
Home is where the memories are, where friends are and were.
My "Family" is still back in TJ and many people consider HOME to be where family is, however the people that are related to be my blood, are not considered my actual family members.
By definition they are my family. But isnt family people that you can trust and rely on one another and people that dont betray you and talk badly of you.
Seriously, I am someone who volunteers most of her time and treats others kindly and im like the nice one in the family, yet im considered a Black Sheep.
People say that family drama is normal in a family, but to be honest, I dont think this is even to be considered simple drama anymore.
My family members are pretty much out for blood, trying to make themselves look better in the eyes of strangers, however, behind closed doors, their scheming each others downfall.
So HOME isnt where family is for me.
HOME IS WHERE MY FAMILY ISNT.
Home is where my books are.
Home is where the wifi  is.
Home is where there is an escape from reality and the trouble of having to deal and try to pacify the members of my so called family, my RELATIVES.
I consider San Diego my home, in San Diego ive made positive memories, friends, where they are still in my life or not, people that I can count on.
I will continue to think of San Diego as my home, even if I move, my childhood has been here, the most important memories that a person can make are from here, THAT is my home.

Whats is the name?

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."

Super

If I could have a super power, to be able to use as a student, would be to have photographic memory. To be able to read or look at something and have it imprinted into my mind.

Just thinking about it, makes more and more sense. All the things I would be able to study and do, since it would be so easy to know the things I saw, I could mayor in anything and everything I wanted.

Achievements

One achievement that I was able to do in school that people didnt really know about it was helping with the link crew welcoming to the freshmen. During the last days of summer for my senior and this past summer, i helped a teacher( Mrs. Rodriguez) with the preparations for the event. Its was 2 days long, and the first day, it was teaching the link crew leaders manage the freshmen. While they did that, I would prep these bags that would be used for the freshmen the next day. I prepared a bag for each and every single freshman that would come to school that year, which was about 800. I had only a few hours to prep for it yet i managed to do it all.

I did this 2 years in a row, and each time more and more seem to come to school.

(This is about 3/4 of all the students)

There was another event which was called breaking down the barriers, and this includes so much work. I had to randomly selected students (250), check that they hadnt attended previous years. Then send out letters with multiple different things, and for that i needed to look up all of their schedules individually on a binder, i had to send out letters by myself about 8 different times, invluding the day of the event. There were other things involved but when it came to the day of the event, it felt great to see how smoothly it all went out.

Welcome to the game of life

Being a student is a kid playing super mario. 

When you were a kid or even today if youre lucky, you get obssesed with playing Super Mario Bros. You want to keep moving to the next level and the next level no matter how many times you die. 

The reason that being a student is like playing super mario is because each little section, leads you to a castle, and that leads you to the next section until you eventually reach the villian and save the princess. So when youre a kid, you wont give up, youll try and try and try until you move forward, and try to find cheats.

Were like the kids, and the sections is the school year, each little game, is like the homework we get, its though but we need to do it to get to the castle, which is like the final at the end of the year, which if we dont pass, were stuck at that level until we eventually pass. Once you pass the castle (school year) you move onto the next, and youre met with harder little games (homework/test) and even tually you reach the castle again(final). The games get harder, just like the work gets harder as a student. And some people cheat in the games, just like they do in life, but as always, you miss the practise, or you miss little details that couldve helped you later on. 

When you reach the final castle, its like when you reach graduation, its the last stand, and once you finally pass that castle, you FINALLY get yo save the princess, which is like getting your diploma in real life.

Like the game, it gets harder as you move on, and youre tested at the end of each section, and once you reach the end... You get what you were hoping for all along. 

Strengths within myself as a student

So we were asked to post about 3 strengths that we posses as students for our English 115 class, and so as I thought about it, I couldn't think of a single strength that I believed I possessed.

And then...

I started working....

1) Notes

I have a tendency to love how different colors look when I take notes, in other to make them stand out. That is just something I have done for a while, I simply to like to write a note on the side and highlight the note. I don't know if its like an OCD thing or not but it bothers me when the highlighting isn't perfectly highlighted on the note, and so I keep trying to make it perfect, and in the end it turns out to look like a huge yellow mess that just doesn't help at all. So when I write the notes in different colors, I can actually focus on it and I don't even have to stop, I just grab a different pen and keep writing. Which helps, since I am so easily distracted.

2)Visualizing

I tend to learn better when I can visually see something or picture, many students do, its just easier to bring up a memory of you doing something, instead of simply reading it. I think of this as a strength, because I have a very vivid imagination, when I can read something, its like a movie running in my head, I can either visualize someone making the speech or the scene that is going on in the page.




3) I want to be someone when I grown up

This might not seem like a strenght, but I consider it to be one. I actually like to come to school and get some education. While I might not like the homework , I do like learning new things. Many in my family haven't gotten a complete education, if any. So having the ability to be able to get a degree is something I look forward to. Its not something many students have. Many come to school to simply socialize or because they are forced to, not becuse they have the will do do so.

5 Countdown

5 Facts
1. Ive Had about 60 pets in my life, including goats, cats, dogs, fishes, chickens, ducks, snakes, guinea pigs, rats, pigeons, parrots, tucans, guacamayas, lizards and we even a python at one point.

2. I hate mushrooms, olives and nopales. I just hate how slimy and weird they feel, when I find them in my food, I always tend to pick them out 

3. I dont like dolls, when I was little, I had barbies that were given to me, but they always stayed in my closet in a box, they have always freaked me out. I really liked dinosaurs, and I still do, I have one that was given to me as a gift thats made out of seashells.

4. I like to do peoples nails, just painting them, I find that to be very relaxing, to be doing nails or painting something or some kind of craft.

5. One of my biggest fears is flying... but Ive never been on a plane or a helicopter or anything.

4 Bucket list
1. Go skydiving... Which is like wtf because Im scared of flying, how I will do that, I have no idea, but one day I will.

2. Being able to get a shot without having a full blown panic attack. I completely freak the hell out whenever I have to get a shot, I dont know why, I just act like a 5 year old.. Actually Ive seen 5 year olds that act better than me when they have to get a shot.

3. Be able to pet a lion again or a tiger. I really like felines, and once I had the opportunity to pet and carry a small lion when I was smaller and I would like to be able to do that again.

4. Train my cat to walk on a leash. I mean how often do you see that? Ive seen one or 2 people being able to walk their cats, and I just think its pretty funny.

3 Goals
1. Graduate from a university

2. Get a job at a medical office

3. Have a home library. I just really like reading, and to build up a library would be amazing.

2 Moments

1. A moment of frustration was when my grandmother started pestering me about how business wouldnt help me in life (really now?) and she wants me to start studying medicine. Now medicine ive never been a fan of, so now I have to start studying that if I want to stay in college since she is im fact the oke paying for my education. I could do a double mayor but thats only if im able to find a job to pay for the business classes in secret.

2. One day after math, I was so tired my brain was just on buffering mode... Let me explain, so I was walking with my friend and I opened up my snapchat to check a few pictures I had gotten, and as I opened the app I could see through the phone because of the camera... My brain didnt register that properly so I strted freaking out about my phone having a hole... Awkward

1 thing I want people  to know

1. I tend to talk a lot!