A well known event in the Latin community that me and my family and friends knew about was the Miss Teen Kansas Latin modeling competition. Yes I was in the competition of course if I am talking about it I as well had issues with it. First of all I loved it, it was fun I meant plenty of new friends and all the girls were very nice. We did plenty of practices for the show like; Practices for dances, makeup, walking and all the modeling stuff you can think about. We also had to practice a speech which I was very afraid to do in front of a whole audience but at the end it went well and I did run first runner up which is basically the back up if anything happens the the winner who won the competition.

Some issues I had with he competition was the directors all the girls and family’s were having many issues with them. Mainly money wise and the winning award as well as how selfish the directors were. During the end up the show a family noticed that the directors were just using the money family’s gave to the “show” for themselves and not for equipment for the show. Which was a huge problem, then people started realizing how the directors would treat some of the girls bad and accuse them of stuff.. so this show was a great experience I loved it especially the girls in the competition I still stay connected to some. This was an event with some issues but the girls in the competition and myself made it 10x better then the directors.

My first brush with danger was when I was celebrating a friend of mines birthday. We had decided to throw a little party for my friend Andrea, She was turning 19 years old and you know of course we want celebrate every minute it can last. We borrowed a cousins house for the party which was not in such a great neighborhood we did know and had some relatives around the house we were going to be staying at so at that moment we thought it was good and okay to stay at the house. Time had went by we had everything organized we were changed, and friends of ours started arriving. Everything was going so well and everybody was enjoying the party and having fun, I decided to step out the house on the patio with my friend Aileen. We had stepped out to wait for my cousin to get to the party to enjoy a great time with us since we hadn’t seen her in months. Once I heard my phone ringing with my cousins caller ID I answered and she had said she was walking to the party since there was no parking spots much closer to the house we were at, once she had told me she was walking I heard gun shots in the back ground and I started freaking out I kept saying her name on the phone but I couldn’t hear her I started panicking I was worried something had happened to her so I stepped off the patio onto the sidewalk and I see her running towards me as soon as I see her running towards me a dark blue car drove past us so fast shooting into the air basically doing a drive-by everyone who was around me and myself had ducked down to avoid getting hit. Luckily no one did get hurt it was so close to us that I have no idea how no one got hurt but thank the lord again no one got injured. The cops did show up since we were basically the only people outside when it had happened we did talk to them they thought it was us since we were throwing a party but no one got arrested or anything, this is the nearest I’ve been near people shooting at us or in the air which was the scariest for me.

The longest I have ever gone without sleeping was when my dads cousin had passed away. I did not sleep for almost a week which was the longest for me I now sleep very good but when someone you cared and loved so much especially a family member is very rough and stressful. Especially for my dad it was a very tough time I was there with my dad all the time he would get upset to try to make him feel a bit better which was hard for me because I was very close with him as how my dad was as well so trying to make someone not sad over a death when I’m having the same emotions as my dad and trying o make him a bit happy is very hard. Every time I would try to sleep it wouldn’t happen because every time I turned off my room light I started thinking about the way he had passed what we could’ve done for him not to pass away if we were at his house before he passed away would he of not passed away? I would think about his daughter in Mexico his wife and his younger so, if they were okay how they were. To the point where I had so much in my mind that it would put so much stress on my shoulders, which would cause me not to be able to sleep that whole week. To this day I still ask myself all those questions but I communicate with his family in Mexico which helps a lot its been almost 4 years we of course miss him but I know we’re all doing good now and I do sleep now even though I ask myself all those question I know he’s doing good and is always watching over my family as for his family as well.

The best story I have of getting lost on foot was in Mexico, Camargo Chihuahua. Which is my families hometown we went on a summer trip last year. I had took my friend Elizebeth since she hadn’t been to Mexico in awhile and some of her family is from the same city as my family. So the second night we had already been settled in and everything it was me and my mom her sister and two of our cousin as well as my friend. My mom had asked us to go to the grocery store that was supposedly down the street from where we were staying, we wanted to be prepared for a block party our family was going to throw for our little cousins birthday. So we said okay that’s fine. We should’ve asked my older cousin to go with e and my friend since we do not know around the house as well as she did, but of course we did not and we thought we could do it ourselves. It was dark out but there was still plenty of people out going for walks and other things, we contained walking on the same street our house was on since we had gotten told the store was down the street which really wasn’t when we reached a dead end. So we then thought about calling my mom but had not took our phones with us you ask why? I’m not sure why we didn’t if we were in another country. So we decided to take a left down another street this street did not have so much light like the previous street we were on did but we said whatever lets just keep walking so we ended up on other street and we did not know how we ended up on other street. There are small allies in Mexico mostly around small houses and small streets so I believe we ended up in an alley which was kinda scary so we were completely lost but we were kind of enjoying the free time away from the family as some teenagers do when on a summer trip. Some what like thirty minutes passed and we started arguing about where we were and where the dam store was at because all the streets we had passed there was no store. Not much happened between the thirty minutes and us trying to figure out where we were because we still ended up on different streets every time we agreed on a street to go on. As we’re walking down a street we here someone yelling our names and it was my mom yelling where we were that and hour had passed, she started telling us again how the store was down the street and we were on the opposite street and kept making the same turns but I guess we didn’t notice because it was pretty dark and most of the houses looked the same because they were the same houses the whole time. So my mom had obviously been upset and took us and showed us the way to the store which was up the street from the house!! So me and my friend had asked why my mom said down the street and she said I messed up when I told you, and that her sister told her when we had left the house that the store was actually up the street so this is when I noticed we needed our phones and should’ve asked if they were sure it was down the street. So at the end up the night is was everyones fault we got lost and now we know to listen more carefully and make sure we keep our phones on us 24/7 when on a summer trip because anything can happen! there was way more detail to this story but this was a shorter version kind of!.

When I was attending high school as a senior, felt like such a long year with all the stressed i had over my shoulder, like weights on my back every day i attended school. Due to the fear of not being able to graduate or not being able to attend college. I knew plenty of friends that had the same problem as what i had. School was already stressful for high school sport members as well as teachers even so. As a senior i did pretty well with keeping my grades straight, as well as making sure i was fully organized when attending school.

We were always told everyday to make sure we apply for scholarships and to keep our grade up and well to graduate. But as a senior i feel like some us would get bored of school and would want to just get everything over with as fast as possible just to graduate. But I will admit towards the last 5 weeks of school which was before i graduated. I had let my grades go down, i did not sign up for the many scholarships i had already planned to sign up for, I let myself not be organized how i was, We all blamed the teachers for supposedly giving us too much work no time to study nor told us ahead of time before i had a test. But I came to realize that after high school when i had graduated, i could’ve done better in school. I would’ve paid more attention to my teachers that were all actually trying to help us and I just like wanted to slack off from school, which would affect my grades.

But Coming to realize it, too today i would’ve had scholarships and possibly a better report card. But i did well to graduate, and i did well by knowing now that nothing should stop me from continuing my education even if i did not do so well in the past. Now i try as much as i can to keep up with all my college homework which i have slacked on some but i am now catching up still with good grades. I have started looking at scholarships for when i decide what University to go to, which i do have some ideas of them but i am not quite too sure just yet.

Deciding to continue your education is important every day there is something new to learn about that you have possibly not heard of yet and it may be helpful in your future. Keeping up with my high school grades and doing more activities as school (clubs) would’ve helped me so much now that i see it, but my college life is not bad at all i enjoy it a bit more than high school.