Blog entry #2

Hey it’s Christmas I just woke up, it looks like a standard Christmas day in San Francisco. Cold! I woke up to the smell of food and foggy Windows. I am instantly hungry mouthwatering for the sweet taste of stuffing. We have no presents to give each other, but were going to just sit on the couch and watch all the corny hallmark movies we can digest, in one day. Now Christmas is here I just finished my plate and I’m ready to go lie down and sleep for two days but now its time for me to go watch a Charlie Brown Christmas with my mom. I’m out for now.

Diary Entry #1

It’s the beginning of my Christmas vacation. I’m so excited I don’t know what to do with myself.
I am anticipating what is going to happen on Friday besides waking up late. Scared that ill fall behind schedule I plan on occupying my time on each day with things i normally am unable to get done with my schedule around year up. Or apply the beginning of each day with a bit of tech reading to stay current and up to date. Also I’m going to try and focus in on my business communications work but most of all I want to have fun! I also plan on try and finish my book called the mocking jay, it is a really great science fiction book a lord of the flies meets harry potter book. So long for now see you next entry.

Internship readiness

Some Qualities of Someone who is internship ready is if there professional, upbeat and ready to jump rightinto what ever there tasks might be. how i am going to model internsip readiness in module 3, is by conducting myself in the same manor you would as if you were in the office setting. i am going to take what i have learned from each module before this one and run with it, by keeping a professional look look attitude and striving to learn, aswell as becoming more engaged and always excepting the new challenges and oppurtunitys that might come my way.

The Worst But Best Job I Had

The worst yet best job that I ever had was working at a home daycare. I had become somewhat of a jack of all trades I did everything I prepared meals, I did time sheets, conducted food plans, janitorial and worked with the kids full time by myself. What made the job enjoyable for me were the hours and the kids that I worked with they really brought me peace and joy. The littlest things made them happy and I was able to be myself and even act like a kid again and there was no judgment. When kids are that young they are like sponges ready to soak things up and have no fear of anything.

The part of my job that I hated was dealing with m y boss she was cheap and refused to hire anybody else so it left me to have to do all the brunt work and watch kids and teach lessons to them. By her being cheap and unable to listen to her staff she really made my work environment tense and slightly unmanageable in a space I felt should have been cool calm and collective and I dealt with her mood swings if she had a bad day I had to deal with it when she came home. It was just an overall growing experience learning to deal with all different types of personalities.

This job taught me some really valuable skill s it taught me to be self-reliant, organized and extremely humble. I also learned how to manage money keep a consistent work schedule also how to log everything from meal plans to lesson plans.

The most valuable skill that I took from that position would have to be how to do for myself and keep busy when there is lots of down time, But also to create a work structure for myself.

What I learned about myself and the work place was am dependable and self-motivated and in some cases I believe I can have the patience of a saint. But it made me become aware of how to deal with other people and the energy they put out in the work place. Learning how to deal with bosses but  of all different ranges horrible to wonderful.

dog killers art project revoked

The artist Tom otterness was selected by the arts commission to put up some of his famous bronze sculptors. On three levels of the moscone station, but he recently had his project put on hold. Thirty years ago when otterness was twenty five years old he recorded a video of himself killing a dog he had got from the pound. The name of the video was called shot dog. He claims that it was art. But animal rights activist in san Francisco made reference to the root of the name of the city, which was named after ST. Francis Assisi (patron saint of animals). And with the population of dogs being greater then children there is absolutely know tolerance for killing dogs.
When I first read this article It was appalling. There are so many different forms of art and self expression. When it comes to killing defenseless animals there is know excuse or way to play it off and redeem yourself from that, its just morally wrong and insensitive to do such a thing. And I feel he’s lucky that all they took from him was his project, and didn’t throw him in jail while thy were at it.

Who inspires me

Handicapped youth inspire me. Even though they are born with unchangeable circumstances I fell as if though they live life to the fullest and don’t let whatever there handicapped there disability maybe stops them. I have a cousin who suffers from downs syndrome and a heart condition. Every day that she wakes up is a miracle because she wasn’t supposed to live passed her first year and she’s five. She only had to go through one heart surgery and she was supposed to be getting them up till the time she was sixteen.  The doctors also said she wasn’t supposed to talk or walk but she’s talking and using sign language to the fullest, you can barely keep up with her when she got a head start on running. There have been no limitations that the doctor has set that she has completely surpassed every bound the doctors have thrown in her way, but she has proven to be able to do so much more and constantly with a smile on her face. In the craziest since she has become my rock and my since of balance. Whenever I’m down and out I can look to her and just listen to the sound of her voice or jus engage in a simple thing like reading her a book or playing Legos with her and that brings me an instant smile just being able to be in her presence I feel like every hour or day I spend with her is a blessing for me because I get to be in her company. So truth be told someone like myself who have no mental or physical handicaps could only dream about walking a day in their shoes. So the next time any of us dare complain about are life’s I think we should check ourselves because it could always be worse. 

View on the Community

Mission District I am a part of this community. It is compiled with different ethnic groups Blacks, Whites, Latins being the majority. we celebrate all different holidays, such as carnival. Were we celebrate the Caribbean people by dedicating two days to them. We dance eat great food from the particular islands and we also keep the party going. On a regular day in the mission the streets are filled with people.Women walking up the streets selling flowers,men outside making bacon wrapped hotdogs and selling fresh fruit and corn, if your thirsty there is always a Gatorade jug full of agua fresca. The smells are amazing its a smell that warms you up from inside out that's when you know you hit the street. Beautiful Victorian houses  with plenty of colors and decoration that describes the individual person.The growing community we are we have an abundance of artist. Muralist, bead work and poets but we are most known for is would have to be the low rider bikes and cars anybody who is truly from the mission has one of the two. The dent that i have chosen to make in my community is being socially aware and proactive in my neighborhood.

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What are some of the things you learned about yourself as a student or a professional in Module I? Did you surprise yourself in any way? Were you proud of yourself? Were you at all disappointed in yourself?Why? 
Somethings i learned about myself in module one was i thought of myself as a slacker and nonprofessional.  I proved myself wrong i have a lot of professional attributes going for myself i would come to class fifteen minutes early just  so i could write my homework and keep up with my assignments. I really shocked myself because i began to realize i held myself at a pretty low standard and I really have went above and beyond what i though of myself.

Product Of My Enviroment

I am a product of my neighborhood because where I grew up it was filled with murals representing the struggles of our people some represented w women’s rights others had Cesar Chavez and the crusade he lead also were murals showing respect for the young people we have lost in our community due to gang violence A result of the gang violence that went on in my community I lost my boyfriend of five years  he finally got his life together and started doing right and he was gunned down in front of his home. I got caught up in the not so positive parts of my community the underground part that only  the news portrayed as negative and bringing the community's property level So in a since my community molded me to be the person that I am today because of the o occurrences that took place in my community that directly affected me. At the same time I used the negative events in my life to help me push forward and not become the stereotype everyone expected me to be. Growing up in a predominately Latin neighborhood I gained a since of respect for the culture and history around me and what it meant to me as one of the      people of the neighborhood and what it meant to the people in the neighborhood.  despite growing up in my neighborhood it also didn't mold me to be who I am because at the end of the day I make my own decisions for my life and were its going may it be negative direction or positive direction I'm taking control of my destiny

I feel like that the people who need to be held responsible for alleviating the issue of attacking low wage earners Is a little bit of everybody’s fault.  You can’t sit around and cry about what you know or don’t know I feel like you need to get off your bottom and find out the information that’s out there or use the resources that are offered to you in your community. The people who are running the banks they need to come up with a contract that speaks in common English versus legal jargon and to be able to sit down with their clients and go over contracts step by step with them.  So they don’t feel like there being duped into anything in the long run.  But I also feel like the bank owners and operators should also be held to a code of ethics themselves and should do on two others what they want done to them. The bankers are making the poor poorer and the rich richer the only people who are benefiting from other peoples lack of information or there misfortune I would have to say it would be the banks and payday advance loans the big corporations are keeping the money with the rich and constantly taking away from the poor.  

My Neighborhood and Me

My name is Lillian brim am a 23 year old San Francisco native born and raised in the Mission District. There is a lot of history and culture in the neighborhood. We are mostly known for our array of different murals and rich history, connected to social change and the struggle and fight people went through for human rights. My neighborhood at one point was full of forward thinking people and the working class. Originally it was predominately a Hispanic neighborhood during the late ninety’s, early two thousands there was the rise of the yuppies. They came in and caused gentrification to a place I called home.  It started with  raising  the rent use to go for $800 dollars a flat, within a matter of a year or two the rents sky rocketed to the highs of  $2,500 dollars and up.The  people had been living there for years had to find other places to live. Historical places that represented the culture of the neighborhood where slowly getting shut down. Coffey shops, skateboard shops and clothing stores were being put in their place. Completely stepping on the culture of the neighborhood and what it stood for and still stands for to this day . The People who moved in came with their own agenda of how things should be ran. Looking at the people who have been in the community as if they were lost, I’m all for new people coming in and bringing knew things to the community. But to come in as if you own the place and call it you’re own with no regard of the history or culture of a place isn’t OK. the way i see it if you are coming in to a community,you should try and be embraced into the community not put the people in the community out.

Highschool Experience

The High school i attended was called Urban Pioneers. It was a wilderness/continuation school located in the heart of the peresido the school itself used to be an old navel barracks so it was a house which gave it an extra homely vibe. We were so far out out in the wilderness we were secluded away from everything so it made our since of community even stronger. We really lacked parent support though a lot of the students were coming from low income families,were homeless, or stayed with grandparents. So the strongest form of support we had was ourselves and teachers.
The facilities weren’t up to par we didn’t have text books because the school couldn’t afford them. We lacked basic resources that a school would need to run efficiently. There was no paper or pencils in the class, there idea of a tech lab was eight outdated computers that were slow and needless to say didn’t have updated software we were still using windows 95. We did have some of the best teachers though for the school being so underfunded and staff being under paid.
They were still so very passionate about about making sure we succeeded and got our education almost as if we were there own children. The students in the school came from all walks of life and different backgrounds. We had kids who were coming from different countries first year in America to some people it was there last chance to be able to finish high school. The last senior class before they closed down the school everybody graduated.

code switching since a young age

I feel the people who have influenced me the most in the way that I speak would have to be my mom and peers. From the time I was old enough to speak my mom would correct me and tell me the proper way to say things. It’s like she drilled it in my head to the point it became a part of my regular speech with her. But as time went on and I was older and was around my peers I picked up another type of language that I would speak with them that wasn’t as refined. I noticed myself coming in the house from hanging out with my friends and changing the way I spoke because I knew that once I stepped in that door I better not bring my outside speech inside.  At year up we talk a lot about code switching I feel that everyone knows a little about code switching even if there not aware of it it’s almost like something that is embedded in you at a young age especially when you hit school age because you have a certain way that you are supposed to address your teachers, elders, family and so forth and as you get older you have to really be prepared to speak proper English in the professional world dealing with your superiors or it could cost you your job and possibly your future.