finally the last blog

In the beginning of this semester I was lost on how to make the blogs. Then after a while I finally got the hang of it. but once I started doing more blogs and reading others, I didn’t really enjoy it. it just felt like another homework assignment on top of every other one. After doing one assignment after another of blogging, I ended up getting bored of it for the fact that I don’t enjoy using the computer as much as I used to. After class ends, I doubt I will ever go back on my blog or even keep it going. Most likely it will just end up staying there alone and unused forever. I enjoyed pretty much everyone's blogs since they were all different from one another. As a last goodbye to the class I would have to say this was a chill class with cool people and umm... ahhhh.. Texting anyone?

blog 15

i couldn't have 3 ppl i had to add him (:

My sister has always been a very important person in my life. Every time I do something, I always make sure I get her opinion or that I am being a good influence on her. Although she did give me a niece at such a young age, I still want to make sure that she grows up on the right path. My sister was always my best friend and always the person I could talk to when I was having a problem. And she knows that I will always be there for her, which is why it’s so easy for us to get along. I love her and will always be glad that I have her as my sister.

My dad has always been an important person in my life as well. Since he doesn’t have any sons, I’ve always kind of filled that spot for him. So you can most definitely say that I am and always have and always will be a daddy’s girl. My dad is into math and construction and has gotten me into all those things. Even though we may bump heads sometimes, I will always love my dad.

Even though I am not a mommy’s girl, I can’t leave my mom out of being an important person in my life. She’s always been there for me whenever I needed her. And even though I never thought I would be able to talk to my mom about certain things in my life, I actually found that she can be a good listener and can really help me feel better when I am down. My mom may be really nosey sometimes, but I will still always love her for being my mom.

I know this assignment only asked for three important people in my life, but I can’t leave out a really important person, Danny, my boyfriend. We’ve been together for two years now and I know him like the back of my hand. He is the one person that can put a smile on my face no matter what. He’s been with me through my ups and my downs and has always helped me back up when I fall. He’s my boyfriend and my best friend all in one person, which is the best thing you could ever ask for. That’s why I’ll always love him no matter what.

Food Network Challenge!! the best (X

Have you ever seen a show that you can’t stop watching? Well weather you have or haven’t, I know of a new show that you should watch. Food Network Challenge is a fun show that hooks in the viewer every time with the excitement and new creativity that it has to offer.

While watching Food Network Challenge, you get to see different things happening on the show every time. Food Network Challenge is mainly known for the cake challenges, but don’t worry that’s not the only thing the show has to offer. Every week a new episode comes on such as cake challenges, chocolate sculpture challenges, sugar sculpture challenges, ice sculpture challenges and many more different challenges.  As you watch the show, you also get to see the different techniques that the contestants use throughout the challenge. You get to see the way the bakers use fondant, or the way they do new piping, the way they mold different characters, or the way that sugar, ice and chocolate sculptures work with their material. You also get to see the different designs that each person comes up with in the end. Some sculptures end up in the forms of familiar things such as spiders or monsters or buildings.

The show always manages to offer some excitement and some interesting outcomes. Toward the end of the show the contestants have to move their master piece to the judging table. This is the point where you start to wonder if it’s going to break and the contestant will be eliminated. Then when the judges start to share their opinions it makes you wonder who is about to win. The end results will always surprise you because the person you wanted to win might lose.

If you are looking for a great, new, exciting, fun show to watch, Food Network Challenge is the right show for you. It offers new creativity and excitement every week. This means you’ll never have to go being bored while watching the show.

FFN

Before reading Fast Food Nation I was a fast food addict. I would get lazy and just decided to get something from a burger place or anything that I could think of that was nearby and cheap. Now that I have read the book, I still tend to have the same habits, but not as much as before because the book kind of made me want to stay away from the junk food as much as I can. The main think that got stuck in my mind from reading the book was the fact that so many kids are addicted to it at such a young age. I also found the fact that most kids knew who the McDonald character was (they knew him better than Santa) to be very crazy. I never really gave much thought into how much fast food restaurants (mainly McDonalds) advertise to kids. But now that I know those facts, I can see how it’s true every single day. For example, I see a lot of little kids running around in the McDonalds playgrounds every time I go. I also get to see how much kids are addicted every time I hear my boyfriends 3 year old niece ask for “papas” from McDonalds. I will most likely continue to eat the food at these restaurants, but I will forever think of facts, such as this one, from the book every time I eat fast food.

school,,, D:

My truth from last week was that: I like quad riding.

This semester in school has been pretty challenging. I still have to say my favorite subject is math, even though it is the biggest challenge of all. I enjoy the challenge that it gives me, but I have started to get lazy to do my work for this class. For this class I only get one packet of homework per section, but it takes hours to do a section, so it ends up being a lot of work and a lot of time that I need to spend just for this class.

English class has been pretty good so far. I started out doing everything on time and getting good grades. Then I started having some challenges that prevented me from doing everything on time. For example, I put my math homework first, and this has usually worked out for me and still left me time to do my English homework, but now that I have to help out with my niece, I hardly have any time to juggle these classes. Even though it’s becoming more of a challenge I am trying my best to make it through the rest of the semester with a good grade.

My health class and art class have both been the easiest classes. However, since I take them to be the easiest, I put them aside and they become my last priority. This has caused me to start falling behind with the work in these classes. I’m still trying to keep my mind set on doing really good and catching up with these classes by the end of this week because I know this semester is coming to an end and I don’t want to fail.

Since it may seem to be tough with all the work from these classes, sometimes I end up feeling like I just want to give up already and maybe find a quick, easy, money maker job. But I continue to pick myself right back up and get on track because I know that if I don’t my parents will be mad.  On top of that, I know that if I quit I won’t have anything good to look forward to in my future, such as the cash I can get with a college degree. The biggest motivation of all would have to be my little sister because I feel like if I don’t show her the right path to go down, then who will?

guess what my truth is???

1.       I like quad riding.

2.       I’ve never broken a bone.

3.       I drive a 2004 accord.

4.       I have 2 sisters

5.       I don’t have a middle name

6.       My favorite number is 17.

new baby

I just got a new niece this past week (:

my life changing story

I used to trust almost everyone that I met, at least up until a few years ago. It started on a Sunday at the park. I was only 14 on the day my dad’s side of the family decided to get together at the park. However, there weren’t that many kids my age, so my sister and I ended up bored sitting in the back of the truck with the windows rolled down and the music on waiting to leave. My sister got bored and started looking through my mom’s phone. When she found messages from another guy, she didn’t know what to do so she gave the phone to me and showed me. I thought I was having a nightmare! My jaw dropped and I froze for a while. After I realized I wasn’t dreaming, my instincts kicked in so I ran to my dad as fast as I could and showed him the phone.

About a month before this happened my mom had just had surgery, so she was on disability from work, so you can only imagine how shocked I was to find out my mom was having an affair when all along I thought she was hurt. For the next few weeks I went to sleep almost every night to the sound of my parents arguing and yelling about the whole situation. I would constantly hear arguments such as my dad asking, “How could you do this to me? How could you do this to the kids? Don’t you love them?” and my mom responding, “I do love the kids and I didn’t do anything wrong.” I even witnessed the worst thing ever, my dad in tears. I always sat and asked myself the same questions, “How could my mom do this? She already had two kids with my dad, so what in the world would ever make her decide she want to be with someone else?”

I could always tell that my dad felt the same way as I did. But even though I was mad at my mom for doing it, I still loved her as my mom and I could see that my dad still loved her as his wife and as the mother of his kids. I guess this is what gave my dad the guts to give my mom another chance and try to work things out with her.

A few months later my mom told me and my sister that she was going back to work that Thursday. I finally thought to myself “Good thing everything is finally over with. She’s finally going back to work and maybe everything will be back to normal.”  When that Thursday finally came, it was like a normal day. My sister and I got ready for school, my parents got ready for work, and then everyone left the house. After school, however, my dad picked up my sister and me from school. This was unusual because he was never home until 5pm on work days. I knew this was a bad thing right away because I got that horrible feeling in my stomach, the same feeling that you get when you know you got caught doing something bad and you’re about to be punished for it. But I didn’t want to get into my parents’ business so I just kept my mouth shut. The next day I noticed that my mom wasn’t going to work anymore so I asked her about it but she just responded saying, “Oh… Um… Well, work called me and said that I could take another month off because I didn’t look so good yet.”

Later that month, my cousin came up to me and asked me how I was doing. I wondered why he seemed so concerned about me so I responded, “What do you mean? You act like if I was hurt when nothing happened.” He then asked, “No one has told you about your mom?” “What about her?” I asked. As my cousin looked at me I could see how sad and scared he was to talk to me. He then put his head down and said, “Remember the day that your mom said that she was going back to work but then she only went for one day? Well that day our dads followed her and it turns out she went to spend the day with some guy. He’s probably her boyfriend. But it was the same guy that she had messages from a long time ago. ” I was shocked. Not knowing what to say, I told my cousin I needed some time to myself to think, so he left.

I started noticing then that my parents were getting back to the same place that they had been in before with all the arguing and talk about divorce. I didn’t think much of it at this time because I began to see it as a game that they played. They would say to everyone, “This time were getting a divorce for sure,” but then a month later they would be together talking and acting happy like nothing ever happened.

Things didn’t go how I thought this time. The same week my parents asked me and my sister to sit down at the table because we needed to have a “family meeting.” We were both very nervous because they had never told us this before. So when we got to the table we sat next to each other crossing our fingers hoping everything was okay. My parents both looked at each other wondering who should be the one to give the bad news, when my dad finally said. “We needed to tell you guys that we are getting a divorce, but we still love both of you guys and we want you to know that. This is why we are having this talk before anyone tells you a different story. We also want you guys to know that it’s not your fault, it’s ours. ”

My sister and I were later shocked when we overheard my mom saying that my dad had cheated on her a long time ago. After hearing this, I felt betrayed by both of my parents. I was mad, sad, upset, shocked, horrified, and worst of all I felt as if nothing in the world was right anymore. I knew that there was no one to blame but my parents, so at the time I felt disgusted by both of them. I was mad at them and no longer saw them as the parents who loved and cared so much for their children.

Since my sister and I were already preparing for the move, we weren’t shocked when my mom found a place to move out to. My parents decided that they were going to share their kids fifty-fifty, like it was so easy for us to move from house to house every week. Eventually my sister and I got tired of how things were, so we took things into our own hands. Now I live with my dad only and my sister lives with my mom. We still find time to visit each other so it’s not a bad way of living, at least I think. Actually I like it better because I feel like it makes it even more fair for my parents since they both have someone living with them at all times so they’re never alone.

After a few months went by I began to realize that even though what my parents did was bad, I shouldn’t let that get in the way of how I feel about them. That’s why I can honestly say that I still think about what they did at times, but that doesn’t stop me from loving them as my parents. The only thing that has changed for me now is that I know I’m better off watching out for the people I trust and the people around me, because if the people closest to me could do this, then anyone can.

interviewing Omar S.

Omar Sanchez has only lived in Oxnard for about two years now, and although he doesn’t think it’s that fun here, he still enjoys everything he does here. He is currently attending Oxnard College. When he first came to school he was expecting classes to be hard and full of people, but instead he’s found it to be the opposite. Omar has chosen to stay at O.C. for two years for this reason and because he likes that it is located around a small environment and that is close to where he lives. In two years Omar plans to transfer to a U.C. to learn more about dentistry and writing. If it’s possible, he also plans to open his own clothing line to share his ideas with the world. In the future, (about five years from now), Omar plans to have be independent by having a steady career so that he can afford his own house. Omar has these high expectations set for him because since he saw how his parents came from a poor society, he wants to be able to give himself more. To accomplish this, one of the mottos he goes by is “first the storm, then the calm”, meaning things are hard before they get easy.

After he is away from school, Omar has a certain time set aside to do homework so that he can get it all done. When he is done with it, or when he has time, Omar usually works out because that is a “must do” for him since he likes to stay in shape. The only time he gets to hang out with his friends is when he visits his mom in LA since that’s where his friends live.

For now, Omar is still living with his dad and two siblings. He has one older sister and one younger brother. His older sister can be a big help when Omar needs help with his homework.  His younger brother, on the other hand, can just be a bug at times, just like younger siblings usually do. Other than that he just tries to have family time with his brother, sister and dad. They do this by either having Barbie Q’s, or having a family dinner to just sit around and talk with each other. In his dad’s house, Omar likes the fact that he has his own room because this allows him to be more responsible for his own things, and it gives him his own space.

 Even though Omar’s mom lives in Los Angeles, he still gets to visit her from about every two weeks. Although he’s not with his mom twenty-four/seven, he loves every minute that he gets to spend with her. His mom is more of a spontaneous, talkative, and funny person, so every time they are together they tend to go out to eat rather than stay in, or they just try to have a good time together. This is why he has a little bit more fun when he gets to go stay with his mom for a while. But he’s mostly just glad that he still has both parents, and that he hasn’t lost touch with either one.

the life saver text (:

At times texting can be something more than just a time killer. Turns out that texting can also be a benefit for many reasons, such as emergencies. For example, if you found out that someone went missing or had been kidnapped, then it would be easy enough to just pick up your phone and send a quick message to as many people as you know, telling them that someone you know has gone missing. And with the technology now days, you can not only give a full description of the person, but you can also attach a picture of the missing person, that way the people that received the message can know what the missing person looks like, and they can let you know if they spot the person right away. Best of all, the people that you send the message to can also forward the message to all the people they know, and so on. That way the message will get out, probably even around the world, faster than you would take to make a phone call, or even put up flyers. This is the biggest benefit because it increases the chances, and speed, of finding the person that went missing. So thank goodness for texting in these sorts of situations!

entertainment television (:

There are three kinds of people when it comes to reality TV. The ones who are obsessed with a specific show or a few shows, the ones who watch it occasionally, and the ones who hate those kinds of shows. I myself am the in between person who watches reality TV occasionally. Well I guess I would say I watch it more than occasionally, but I’m not obsessed with a certain show or anything. I think these shows are more of a “guilty pleasure” for me. I watch them pretty much every time I turn on the TV as a way to entertain myself when I’m bored. I do have to admit that watching other people’s problems does help me take my mind off of my own problems at times too. It’s also a bad habit of mine to watch these shows as an excuse to be a lazy bum on the couch all day.


Even though I tend to keep my eyes on the show, I don’t completely like everything I see. For example, I do not like when all the people in the show get all dramatic, especially over dumb little things. If one person says one wrong word to another person, then this tends to end up in a fight, or just a huge, over exaggerated argument. These are the kinds of shows that I think have no point in being aired, their just there to annoy people.

I think sometimes people use these kinds of shows as a way to feel better about themselves. For example, if they see a flaw in someone on TV they’ll feel better because they don’t have the same flaw. Or if someone is going through a problem and they see that someone else on TV is going through the same problem then they feel better that there not the only ones. People may also use these shows as a way to get advice on their problems without asking for any. For example if person A has a problem, then he might turn on the TV and look at how person B, the person on TV, handles their problems. Then person A might make some life decisions based on person B’s actions.

Sometimes people watch shows for the wrong reasons, and sometimes shows send the wrong kind of messages or set bad examples. If the show has young kids acting a certain way such as doing drugs or being sexual at a very young age then kids might watch those shows and try to mimic the actions of the people. This would be a type of show that may be harming our society.

I was trying to think up some reasons about how reality TV is actually benefiting our society but I couldn’t. I think that it is a bad habit that people have but sometimes we tend to watch almost anything for entertainment. I also think that these kinds of shows tend to be a bad influence overall, to everyone but mainly kids. But at least while these shows keep airing people will always have something to watch.

food stories X)

Every day after school my sister and I would go to my grandma’s house to wait for my parents to get out of work so they could pick us up. Even though my grandma lived down the street from Mc Donald’s, my sister and I hardly got that. Luckily my grandma would always make the best homemade meals for us, so my sister and I loved to go there. Sometimes, when my uncle, my mom’s brother who lived with my grandma, was in a good mood he would decide to walk me and my sister to Mc Donald’s so that he could take us off my grandma’s hands for a little bit. My sister and I would get really happy so we would race each other there. My usual, and favorite, meal to get was always a kid’s meal with a cheeseburger inside. Every time I got this the first thing I wanted to do was open the toy, but my uncle made me wait until I was finished eating all of my food first. After we finally ate we were allowed to play in the playground for a good while.


At home, my parents, like their parents, would usually make homemade meals. Since they got the recipes from their parents, the food was always really good. Once in a while when my parents were too lazy to cook or when they got home too late to cook, they would just take us to buy something at any fast food place, which was nearby of course. As my sister and I got older, and things started changing in the house, my parents found it easier to just call us when they were on the way home and ask us what we wanted to eat so that they could buy it for us when we got home. This is when fast food pretty much became a habit for everyone in my house. After a while of eating a burger every day for dinner, my sister and I got tired of it. So we volunteered for a while to take turns making home cooked meals because we missed them. Since we didn’t know how to make that many things, dinner was usually spaghetti, meat, rice, or lasagna. Then when we, or our parents, got tired of these dinners, the fast food habits returned for a while.

Fast food has always been a quick grab whenever someone gets too lazy to cook and I’ve learned that first hand now more than ever. Now fast food is more than something you eat once in a while to me. I never really took the time to learn how to make a lot of things, so when I run out of ideas I tend to turn to a burger, or pizza. It never really matters what it is as long as it’s something that I can grab quickly and will fill me up for a good while. And now that I am older and am supposed to be more independent, I find that it’s the easiest thing to do, even though it may not be the best thing for me.

the start + now + in the future (:

Well to start off, I was born in Ventura, California and have lived in Oxnard, California in the same house my whole life. When I was younger, I used to play school with my sister and I would be the teacher. I would set up a desk for her and I would write down some math problems on a marker board. As we got older I went from playing school, to just helping and tutoring my sister with her math homework. At the end of the school year, during summer vacation, my aunt would babysit me. Since my aunt bakes cakes, she would let me help her bake and decorate the cakes. Then I would go home and try to make my own cakes on my own. These are the years that I decided I might want to open up my own bakery when I grow up. Throughout high school I still enjoyed baking and I continued to learn more in my math classes. Along with that, I also took a few photography classes where I really enjoyed taking pictures and making art with the camera. My teacher always told me that I have a natural talent with the camera and that I better consider photography as a career in the future.

So now I am still not sure which career I want to go after for sure but I am currently a freshman in Oxnard College, so I figure I have two years to decide. The one thing I do know for sure is that math will be one of my majors because I am already taking calculus so I don’t want those skills to go to waste. For now I am taking my general classes, with an emphasis on math, and then I plan on transferring. When I’m away from school I still pull out my camera and take pictures of things that interest me because I am still considering photography as a career for the future. On some weekends I also bake cakes for family members, mostly my boyfriend’s family, but I enjoy doing it. Although I don’t have a job yet, I do sometimes babysit my little cousins as sort of a weekend job whenever my aunt goes out.

After two years at Oxnard College, I plan on transferring to a four year school where I will be able to further my math knowledge and possibly become a math teacher, or professor. After I finish getting my degree in math, I still want to go to school for photography and maybe for baking as well. I’m not sure what school I will go to but most likely it’s going to be the Art Institute, that way I can get a degree in both photography and baking at the same time. I know it sounds like I’m trying for a lot, but I’ll see where I end up in the future. After I finish getting all my degrees in these three subjects I hope to maybe be a teacher for math, or open up a bakery and be the photographer for my cakes, or just be a party photographer on the side. I still have my hopes up that I will be able to manage all three jobs somehow because I don’t have a favorite yet. For now I look forward to just taking my time and seeing where I end up in the future.