TRUTH OR LIES

1. I HAVE A DOG.
2. I HAVE A SON THAT'S 4.
3. I HAVE NEVER BEEN TO MEXICO.
4. I AM MARRIED.
5. I HAVE A LICENSE.
6. I HAVE TWO SISTER AGES 18 AND 9.


CHOOSE WISELY U NEVER KNOW WHICH ONE IS THE TRUTH.

MY FAMILY

Well I have a weird little family there’s my son, my boyfriend, and myself.  I like my small little family I love my two boys. With my boyfriend we have been in a relation for almost five years and with my son I love him ever since he was in my stomach. Then I also have my family I have my two parents who I love very much and my two little sisters. Having a family means a lot to me because they are there for me when I need support or just need someone to talk to when I need it. My boyfriend he has been such a good support to me even though we have had our ups and downs thru out these five years he has been by my side. Anthony my son is also my little piece of me that makes me happy every time I’m sad or need that extra smile he is there giving me a hug to make it all better. The person who I love and I am grateful of having is my dad you could say I am a daddy’s girl. He has never judge by my mistake instead he is there to support me and push me forward and say things will be better just be patient that’s why you have a dad for. Also my dad convinces me to keep on going to school after high school and not to stop with a high school education. He told me that school is a good tool and that will make you a stronger person with more education and it will make your son proud of him mom. Another person that is important is my mom she was the person that had helped me finished high school if It wasn’t for her taking care of my son I don’t know if I would made this far in my life. My sister Pamela is also a person I care about I always go to her for some advice or to give her some advice. We tell each other our secrets and we stay along each other side when there is something difficult in the way. Then there’s my little sister yeah she could drive me nuts at time because we are eleven years apart but I still love her. For me family is very important without the people that I have mention I don’t know how I would have made it this far with my choices and having some support next to me. 

interview

The person that I had interview was Miriam Zaragoza she is sweet and kind person.  She is the oldest with two brothers one of them is 18 and the other one is 4.  She Graduated from Rio Mesa in 2010. This will be her second year of attending Oxnard College. The thing that motivates her to attend college is to have a better education than her mom. Her current schedule is she works Thursdays thru Sundays on the weekends she works in the mornings. She works in the mornings on the weekends so she is able to spend time with her family. Her school schedules are that she goes to school on Mondays thru Wednesday and some are homework days. Her role model is her mom because she made sacrifices for their family. Miriam considers herself to be a role model for her younger siblings by setting her brothers examples. Three words she describes herself are determined, helpful, focus. In ten years she sees herself to be done with her masters, working as a school counselor, have a place of her own and to hopefully be engage. The motto she has for herself is “No More McDonalds”. The stuff that influence her from her culture or family is to do more that general ed. The biggest surprised that college experience has is the cost of college and the atmosphere is different that High School.

Life Changing

Special event

            During the middle of my teen years I was excited to become a new mom, but I was nervous I didn’t know what to expect.  Being a mom at a young age is very hard I‘ve seen how some people have to deal with being a teen mom and how they have struggle. When I was in my ninth month of pregnancy I was just waiting for me to meet my son and trying to go school. I am not going to deny I was worried if I was going to be able to finish high school. My last day of junior year was fun I got to say bye to all my friends and I was ready for the summer to begin. It felt weird because the start of my senior year I was not going to have a big stomach anymore. A while after I had been on vacation I had gone to the doctor’s office and I was going to find to when I was going to give birth. Then the doctor had told me your son could come anytime now you are full term. I was happy but nervous of how the process would go during labor and delivery.

            It was the middle of the night, when I started having a weird feeling that I had to go to the restroom and I had gotten up my bed. When I got up the bed it felt weird I got this feeling that was unexplainable. Then when I had least expected it my water had broken. It was unusual to feel the water going down my leg. When I had notice it I had to wake up my mom and tell her that it was time for me to go and have a baby. She had told me to go and take a warm shower and put it in my back so it could help with the pain. After I had gotten out of the shower my mom had told me to dress and that she was going to go wake up my dad and my two little sisters. That’s I was started to nervous I didn’t know what to expect of the delivery. Especially since it was my first kid and what I have heard that labor is very painful and it’s a long wait. As soon as we had gotten ready it was around five o’clock in the morning we had left the house and first we had to go to drop off my sister’s at my aunt’s house. After that we had to the CMH in Ventura because that was the only place where they had token my health insurance. The long drive to the hospital seemed like an eternity it seemed like I was never going to get there because the pain was getting worse. As soon I got the hospital I had to fill out some paper work before they would take me into the labor and delivery. We walked to the elevator where I had to go to the second flood, the elevator felt weird because it was taking us up the floor too quick. Then finally we got to the second floor were they had taken me to my room.

            The nurse had told to if I need to go to the restroom to go right now before the labor process will continue. She told me to change into a gown. The room was weird because the bed where I was staying in was where I was going to have my son. Then I had laid down now knowing what I was going to expected from this experience. A nurse had come into my room and she had checked how far I was dilated. She had checked me and she had notice that I wasn’t has dilated that they had to induce my labor to get things going. She had left the room and came back with the IV to put in to my hand. That painful pitched from the needle hurt so bad it had made me cry, the nurse told me that she is going to put a medication in the IV called Pitocin. As soon they had put that in my pain level was becoming worse everything was speeding up. A couple hours had passed but I don’t remember how long it has been. Then a nurse had come into the room and she had asked if I wanted any pain medication to help with the pain that I was dealing with. My mom had told me not to get the epidural because that may end up causing back problems and it could end up becoming worse over time. I ended up getting a medication that goes in the IV but I don’t remember the name of it. With the medication I was able to go to sleep for a while to get my mind of the pain.

            When I woke up  my doctor came in the room and she hold told me that I am going to check how far you are dilated. She had checked me and I was ready to start pushing. I got so nervous and scared when they had brought the supplies even though it was covered I didn’t know what to expect. The doctor and the nurses came into the room to start setting up the items for the delivery. They had made me lay in the bed with my bottom all the way to the edge of the bed, with my legs up in the set up. The Doctor told me to hold my thighs with my hands and to start to push. I pushed every time I had a contraction because thats what they had told me to do.  Minutes had passed and I was getting tired of using all my strength. Then she told to give one big push, so I did what she had told me when I did that my baby’s head had come out. That’s when they had cleaned up is airway so he will be able to breath. She said to give one more big push, when I did my baby was born. When I hear those first cries I had cried of how happy I was to be a mom.

            Seeing my son for the first time it was a feeling that had left me speechless. He was a wide awake baby with his eyes wide open. When I called him Anthony he moved his head around trying to follow my voice. Anthony had a little bit of hair but his hair was a little Mohawk which it looked funny because they were little hairs standing up. Also my little boy was skinny he weighed six pounds and one ounce his length was 19 inches. My child had little skinny legs and arms, since he only weighed six pounds. Since he was so thin his skin was a little wrinkly. His cheeks were rosy, he had big eyes with curly eyelashes, and he had clear skin. That’s when I realized; that I would succeed has a teen mom. I would be able to become someone in life. There would be struggles along the way but I would be able to do it for my son and I whatever comes along the way I would be able to overcome.

text

Texting is everywhere now you see young people all the way up to older people having cell phones. Texting is very important now because it helps you get a hold people especially if you are running out of minutes. Everywhere you go now you see people texting. There is one thing that people should be careful while texting is to not drive while you are because it could be dangerous and you could end up putting others in danger. Yes texting could become very helpful to communicate especially if you can’t answer your phone. In some situations where you are in a doctor’s office or somewhere important and you can’t make a call texting is very helpful. It could make time go by even faster while using the phone. It’s fun when you get your first phone and having texting because you just want to go share it with your friends so you could keep in touch with them. I remember me having a phone with no text and I would hate it because while my other friend had it I didn’t I felt weird being the only one to stand out of them. Texting has become a big impact in our society. I do feel though that people should use it wisely and not get to carry away especially while driving.

reality

I am not going to deny it I do like to watch reality shows especially when I have free time. Lately I do miss out in some episodes because I am either at work, school, doing homework, or spending time with my son.  The reality shows that I watch is Keeping up the Kardiashians, Kendra, Jersey Shore, 16 and pregnant, Teen Mom, and etc. I like to watch a lot of them but the ones that I have mention are the ones I see the most. The reason why I like to watch Keeping up the Kardiashians is because it’s interesting seeing other people and how they react to different situations. Then I also like watching it because there is like drama in their family and they try to figure out how to find a solution to it. Their family dynamic is interesting as well because they try to keep each other entertain. Kendra I like to watch because of the way she was able to things myself when her husband was away and she will take her of son with just being the only one there. Jersey shore I like to watch because there is always some drama going on between the roommate and some of them deal with it in different ways. At time they will try to fix but it might get better or it might end up making it worse depending in the situation between them. 16 and pregnant I like to watch because of the way they at times struggle through situations and for some are more difficult than others. It makes me remember of my experience of being pregnant at a young age and still being able to succeed or change for their young ones. Then teem mom I like to watch because some of them reflect on me on how they are struggling with a child will some still trying to go to school or battle of how they are going to do it in that situation.  Then I do watch some other shows but I don’t really watch does as often.

In a way I do think that reality show could affect society but then it will depend of what. Well I think that 16 and pregnant or Teen Mom could show other viewers that having a child at a young age could be tough and it’s not easy. Then there is some that could influence young audience to make bad decisions by watching the show and trying to be like them. I do find them to be entertaining in at times but I just watch them on my free time. So reality shows could end up being good or bad depending on the situation the program gives or the way the viewer might end up seeing the show. 

Fast Food

I would remember that my family and I will go out to eat fast food like 3 to 4 time of the month. We will go when my dad didn’t have to work and he will take us to go and spend some family time. My dad will like when we will spend our Sundays out eating as family because we really didn’t see him much during the week because he would work from eight to twelve hours a day. I remember that my sister and I will be so happy when my dad will take us when it was Halloween time and we will get the bucket from McDonald’s.  The fast food restaurants that my parents would like going will be McDonald’s, Carl’s Jr, Jack in the Box, Taco Bell, and at times to Burger King. When I would go to fast food restaurants I would get the kids meals. When I out grown that stage I would get a number two at McDonald’s and share it with my sister Pamela, at Carl’s I would get the famous star, at taco bell I would get two taco with supreme nachos, at jack in the box I would get number 4 or 6, and at Burger King I would get the whopper Jr.  Then around when my little sister was born we didn’t really eat fast food as much is was more like a treat because after my little sister was born my mom was diagnose with diabetes type two. Then it had change our eating habits our family had become more health at that time we all did it to help my mom not get into a bad eating habit and so she will eat more health.

Now that I don’t live with my parents any more I could say that I eat fast food a little more than I did. I know it bad for me and my mom tells me not to eat it too much because diabetes runs in my mom side of the family. The reason why I eat it more is because for lunch at work instead of making myself a healthy meal I go get fast food. With my son I make sure he doesn’t eat as much fast food as I do because he is too young to be eating much of that. Recently during the past three month I have reduce the times I eat fast food because I am getting tired of always eating the same thing. Lately I make more time to make my lunch for work and to eat fast food once a week like I used to do it with my parents. I want to try to make fast food more like a treat and not eat it so often. Even though I have a good stable weight I don’t want to gain weight that I wouldn’t like to have. If I don’t have a lunch and I need to eat something I will rather now to subway or a healthier place.