Friday, October 31, 2014

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."

Sunday, October 19, 2014

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.

Friday, October 10, 2014

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.

Sunday, October 5, 2014

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.