A Special Kid in My Heart

one person in my life that is really special in my life is my nephew Jason ha has been in our lifes for almost 2 years. . He has gone through and gotten over lots of obstacles and he is just Eleven months. He is special in my life because he cheers people up with his little cute face and make people happy with his cute smile on his face

June 5th a Special Day In My Life

June 5th is a special day in my life because it’s my birthday yesterday I turned 17. Yesterday I felt very happy because I received calls all day from friends and family. The best call that I received yesterday was the call that I received in the morning it was my best friend; her to me is everything she’s there when I need her and I am there when she needs me. I have known her since the 6th grade and we have been best friends since then. I love her a lot she’s like a sister to hope and me that our friend ship goes on until the end of our lives. One thing that I like about her is that she will listen to you with out making fun of you; she talks to you with honesty and never puts you down
Even though yesterday I felt happy I felt sad as well because last year in my birthday I lost someone I loved with all my heart I lost my god father, he was there every birthday I had he would always play his guitar and sing me happy birthday and I would cry of happiness but it was until June 5th 2007 that I cried but to say good bye to him forever a big part of my heart was taken that day but one thing is that I will always remember him the same way he loved me I was always his little girl and now he is my angel in heaven that even though he is not here, we remember him.%~LoVe yOu~%

My Thoughts

In this class I have pushed myself to do my best and overcome my shyness in the streets with strangers. I normally don’t talk with nobody that I don’t know I just talk to my friends and people I know and i am around with most of my time. For this two weeks that we have been on this class I have tried and I have overcome a little of my shyness I have met and talked new people that have gone with me in this school but I had never met them or talk with them for this whole year, now I talk to the freshmen, and some seniors and its amazing how this class has helped me. To overcome this shyness I didn’t try my best but I tried to speak but I just couldn’t, maybe because I knew that my voice would be recorded while interviewing and I don like how my voice sounds in a recorder, but even though I have tried I haven’t overcome my shyness.

Our Visit to Castro Street

While visiting Castro Street I felt weird I had never been there before, people would just turn and see us differently. Walking in the Castro community there was a variety of different stores, I mostly saw men and men’s stores and some others different stores that you don’t see in the Oakland community. While we were looking for people to interview we went in to all different kinds of stores and there was all different kinds of people, thee people were nice and allowed us to interview them.

Lake Merrit Walk

Our walk to lake merit was long; we walked a lot even though we took the bus. I thought the lake merit community was going to be the same as what I am used to seeing but it was different, the people were different the places were different in way that there were a lot of cafe shops, food stores and groceries stores, I saw Safeway, Walgreen’s, trader Joes, star bucks, subway this was all like in two blocks. People there were nice they were interested in the interviews we had to do and were able to answer all the questions wed asked them. after finishing our interviews we went to a rose garden, this garden was really pretty it was full of roses of different colors and sizes, there were trees all around and a pond, there were birds around and you could smell the freshens before getting there we walked by this house who had his garden decorated with rocks and it looked really nice he told us he had made them him self.

Visiting Old oakland farmers market

When we got to Old Oakland Farmers market I thought it looked like Chinatown, there were many Chinese people there buying fruits and vegetables and other products, but there were also more people of different race. In the market there were all kinds of people selling product I say Asian people selling bread, fruits, I saw African Americans selling t shirts and other things and I even saw a Latino selling tamales and another selling ice-cream and water.One thing that I realized was that most things there were kind of expensive and there were not that many things that I like for me there were mostly selling cherries and strawberries. After being in the farmers market for a while we went to lake merit and we had a fun day by getting up on peddle boats I really enjoyed and I got really tired.

Our Visit to Rock ridge

Before visiting Rock ridge I thought it was going to be not to different than east Oakland but it was. Rock ridge was somewhat similar and somewhat different than Oakland but Rock ridge was more like hippier, there were not many diversity I mainly saw Asians and white people. Some similarities between Rock ridge and Oakland was that there was tagging on some walls, there was homeless people on the streets and there was a lot of traffic on streets some differences that I saw between Oakland and Rock ridge was that there were lots of boutiques, book stores, hair salons, and Farmers markets and the streets were clean and had benches on every sidewalk we walked through and people were nice and polite when we interviewed them.

My Life Living in Oakland

I was born and raised in Oakland, I like living in Oakland but sometimes I realize how scary it is to live here with all the violence and gangs, drugs and other things that happen around here. In Oakland you could live a go life with no problems, Oakland has nice neighborhoods and nice communities to live in. Something that I don’t like about Oakland is that most streets are full of trash around and people sometimes don’t seem to care about it. People may talk that Oakland is the worse city to live at because they hear in the news all the violence around and the killing but they don’t get well informed about Oakland. In my opinion Oakland is not that bad like the rumors outside say but I guess is up to the people to decide whether or not to like it. One thing that I like about the Oakland community is that it has different races, Latinos, Asian, African American and others.

Our Visit to China Town

My experience I china town as different that what I imagined, china town for me I thought there were only going to be Chinese people but I was wrong there were all kinds of people. When I first knew that we were going there I was like WHAT.... we are going to be strange everyone was going to be looking at us strange because we weren’t Chinese. Some differences that I saw between china town and Fruitvale was that there were a lot of people in the street walking and in Fruitvale there were people not as much. Something that surprised me about china town was that there were lots of restaurants and Chinese shops and many places to go around there. Some similarities I noticed from Chinatown and Fruitvale was that people make a lot of business around their stores.

Garbage in our community

Walking around the Fruitvale community we found a variety of trash in the community, there was all types of trash on the ground that should not be. In this community there is tagging everywhere. One interesting thing that we found in our community was a little girl about five years old plying in the playground of her school that had tagging on the walls around her. Even though her school has tagging in her school walls she was having fun in her playground not knowing why or what was on that wall.

Our visit to Fruitvale

Comparing my experience in Fruitvale and in Walnut Creek, it was totally different. I way that in walnut creek people were polite when it came to interviewing and that showed people actually cared about their community, here in Oakland the interviews were different because people were rude, embarrassed and probably scared when they saw the audio recorder. Some things that I learned from Fruitvale were that most people who walked by there are Latinos and most didn’t speak English and we had to interview them in Spanish. Another thing that I noticed in the Fruitvale community was that people was rude to us and didn’t even want to answer us some questions they would only walk away. Some positive things that I learned from Fruitvale were that people specially woman care more about the community and health around because they think of their children and family members. Some negative aspects I learned from Fruitvale were that people don’t do anything to change the community. Today in Fruitvale what I learned about health our topic was that people think differently about the community, some think is healthy and some think is not.