Christmas Break/New Year

Time is near, the break is almost over. I enjoyed the New Year!!! The night consisted of laughs, food, and music at my bestfriend house in San Leandro. A few friends from church came to bring in the New Year. It was hard to stay up that late because I'm so use to going to bed early. The following day I went to the movies and out to eat with a few friends. I wanted to bring in the New Year and start the New year off with positive people around me. This year I will be a lot more social and try not to distance myself from the previous friends I've had in the past, and I will not limit myself to any new friends. This will be very important at an internship so I will not only do it outside of the internship but also in the internship. The new friends thatI plan tk encounter will be on a positive path and want to be somebody in life. It is almost time to go back to YearUp so I will firat start to enteract a bit more with Lcc. Socializing isn't a bad thing it can only help me. For the last day of the break I will spend it at the Dmv and then relax and get mentally prepared to began the last 4 Weeks of learning and development stage!!

Christmas Break 2011

So it's Friday December 30th and I'm pretty much just relaxing and still enjoying my family. I don't really have any plans other than grab a bite to eat and then return home. The move to Stockton was a great choice, it is very quite and the house is very nice. Most of the time I'm home waiting on my little sister to come home so that I can play with her. Her name is Harmony and she just made 2 on December 8th. Hopefully if she doesn't come home to late I can take her to the park and let her play around for an hour or two. Tomorrow I will make a trip to Oakland to visit my best friend and possibly stay the night over there then return to Stockton. This whole break I have just been enjoying family and relaxing. I tried to sleep in but my body is so use to waking up so that I can head to YearUp so I haven't had any luck with that. Well, that is all for now it's time to do some Tech homework. 

Activities during Christmas break 2011

During the Christmas break I have been doing a lot of relaxing and reflecting on the time I have spent at YearUp Bay Area, as well as eating good, family gatherings, and watching plenty of basketball games. A special day that I am going to talk about is Christmas day!!! On Christmas Eve I could not sleep because I was looking forward to watching my adopted sister open her gifts!! On Christmas morning we woke up came downstairs and began to pass out gifts, sing Christmas carols, eat breakfast, and last but not least open gifts!!! After opening gifts we all put our clothes on and took a 5 minute drive to my aunt house. There is where we had the biggest Christmas feast EVER!!! There was ham, turkey, roast, greens, carrot salad, dressing, potato salad, greens, cornbread, and many other dishes. After eating and watching a few basketball games it was then time to open more gifts. After the gift opening we took family portraits and enjoyed each others company. Having family around on Christmas day always puts a smile on my face.

internship readiness

The quality of someone who is internship ready is one that shows confidence in what he/she has learned in tech class. A few more qualities for someone that is internship ready is demonstrating professionalism a great attitude, helpful, receiving/acting upon feed back, and eagerness. My plan on demonstrating internship readiness is to keep up the great job of being on time as well as becoming more outgoing as far as volunteering with the many opportunities such as setting up for guest speaker and moving tables in and out of room when necessary. A change that I plan,on making in module 3 would be my energy and facial expressions. Facial expressions may show that I'm mad, sad, sleepy or angry when I'm actually I'm just as happy to be in this program as the person who is outgoing and smiling/cheerful everyday. To be extremely successful in this module that was not consistant the other modules would have to be organizational skills.

Reflection On Work Experience

The best job that I ever had so far was working with DD kids (developmentally disabled) kids through FSSBA (family support services of the bay area). My primary responsibility was to take care of/engage in activity and homework with kids who were challenged, while their parents were either at work or at home. What made the job enjoyable for me was the opportunity that I gave to these kids to have a good time, and to see the smiles on their face while they were enjoying themselves. Another enjoyable part of this job was seeing the parents appear to be relaxed/at ease when I walked in the door to take care of their kid(s). A skill that I developed in doing this job that will serve me well moving forward into the internship is how I have the ability to work with a group of people no matter the age limit. Another skill that will help is the ability to communicate, this job made me become very responsible and forced me to communicate because parents always wanted to know how their kids were doing and what activities did I bring to the respite. A lot of the kids I worked with did a lot of MEWLING, so as a respite provider I had to be open and willing to express/show a caring and understanding side of me. A lesson that I learned in doing this job was how to have patience, be persistent, communicate, lesson planning, and time management.

Response to Rivera's Frozen Assets Mural

In Rivera’s Frozen Assets mural a connection between the banks then and now are rather interesting. In the mural it shows how a security guard is guarding money that is being held in the bank. The occupy movement that is taking place today, and the mural both displays how money is a major issue and that without the wealth life itself can turn out miserable. The mural can also speak things into existence. In the mural the long line of people that are waiting to go somewhere can turn into the long line of people that will be waiting to take their money out of banks because of the fees that banks want to charge to either take out money or even use your debit card. There is a clear connection between the mural and what is going on now in 2011 with the occupy movement. The connection that I see between the two is how if soon things don’t change with the 99% and 1% we will soon head down the same path as the great depression. In the mural the people that are lying down on the ground with the covers around them can also represent the people that are camping out today, in 2011 to protest about the many different activities that are taking place to force people to protest. The man that is standing over the people with the covers over them can represent the police that stands over and sometimes interfere with the protesters that are in downtown Oakland and other places around the world. In the mural the picture at the bottom with the people waiting to get their money out of the bank may have possibly turned into some of the people that are in the middle picture as a result of them not being able to get their money out of the bank. There is a very clear connection although this mural was drawn long before 2011. There are many connections that I have mentioned but a connection between the mural and 2011 that stuck out to me the most is the connection between all 3 of the pictures. The people not being able to get their money leads to them being poor/having to sleep on the ground with others, which leads to the long line in the top of the photo which represents a bread line.

Inspiration

The individual who inspires me the most would have to be my mother. She is the strongest woman I know. She is a breast cancer survivor and she lives her life to the fullest helping every one she can. My mother taught me that life is not just about what you do for yourself, but also what you do for others. Days when I don’t feel like doing anything productive my mother is always the one to push me. She has inspired me to do many things and because of her I have found independence. Growing up my mother was always the one to make a way out of no way and always looking at the bright side of things. I am proud to say that some of her characteristics have rubbed off on me and make my experience at Year easier.