Journal #10 Being a Man

This happened recently and the advice was delivered by my dad. He told me that I am nearing the age of an adult and dicussed what an adult was and their purpose. Articulating that I would gain many responsibilites and that I had to acknowledge what was the best choice in making decisions. He mentioned details such as lazyness and arrogance which are qualities that can possess me once in a while. The details were mentioned , to exemplify that those pieces of my personality must disappear if I would want to be successful in life. He would itirate how he did not pass high school by ditching school and passing the day strolling in the streets. Like many others, he laments the decisions that he made in his early life, but that is why he motivates me. He does not want me to follow the same path, and after working in his job for a few days, I have realized that i do not want to that for the rest of my life. He works in the tile industry and can cause tiredness and does not award any fun. Then, he proceeds on clarifying that I should work at a job, and enjoy it. In watching people who do not do any type of labor and who gain an abundance amount of money, he encourages me to approach that type of job. I have told him that my dream is to commentate sports game, a commentator. He always has respected my choice as a career, but has also demanded that I should investigate if I can profit from such a profession. My dad has always been a figure in my life who I would have debt for, he tries to change my perception of the world and cares to give me important advices about life.

Journal #11 What Drives Me

The universities are interested in my capicity and quality as a student, but I would like for a university to question me what purpose in life do I exist for, and wether or not I can accomplish my goals. I believe that a university would not care to question me on something that cannot matter or bring immediate success, but that would make me realize that there are people who belong to prestigious schools and would appreciate watching their students succeed. Recently, I have used all my sweat and determination on completing and prevailing over the tasks that I receive at school, in order to exemplify my attitude of success. When the university would ask me that question, I  would answer that I will not disgrace any oppurtuniy that I would attain in this university and use it to my advantage and succeed in the profession of journalism. My dream as a toddler has been to commentate on sports games, most importantly soccer. Although, I could also decide on being a sports reporter or an analyst that discusses about sports news. In order to attain experience on these fields, I would select journalism and communications to enhance my abilities and accomplishing my dream. My studying times would not only mirror the large times that I take in my high school studying, but I would generate more success from pure determination. That, my dear university, would answer my question that I hope you would recite to me.

Journal #12 Mom, I'm in a Movie!

First of all, my movie would have showings of extreme psychological trauma and how I live through it. I consider myself a determined person and dwells in fear when I can't get what I want when I attempt hard for it. It begins. The hot day of Mexicali causes my head to shed many tears of sweat while striking a hatchet on a huge, durable tree. I keep thinking, this Saturday was suppossed to have joy as to seeing my favorite soccer team play for the pass to the semi-finals, yet I have to do painful work. I had started the work with pain in my head already, I began at nine while having to wait on eating untill it was one in the afternoon. I was limited in energy and was silent throughout the working area. My dad would yell at me to continue using the sharp machete or the strong hatchet in order to continue the dismantling of the tree. I would comply to his demand and would inject the tree with my strikes from my favorite hatchet. After fifty strikes, my father tells me that he wants to continue in order to allow me rest. I don't listen to him, in fact, I ignore him and continue striking the tree with no sense of success or determination. He grabs me by the shoulder and tells me that I can rest now, and this time, I do accept that offer. The day had ignited inadequate and I began my refreshing shower in order to watch my passionate soccer team play a game they had pressure on. It is quickly shown their humiliating defeat and I start yelling in such fury and cause my dad(who also supports this soccer team) to gain inflammatory reactions. Those would enact the first fifteen minutes of a movie where I recall the unfairness in life and how I react to my problems and mistakes that account as many. This movie additionally contains a mournful reaction to an essay I did poorly on, and could have gained an impressive score if I had not made a simple mistake.

Journal #13 Hi, My Name is Alejandro Ortiz

Hi, my name is Alejandro Ortiz and I am glad to have a roommate and would have delight in getting to know each other. Im going to commence by saying that I am a person who enjoys life and almost always has a vibrant attitude. I rarely get infuriated and I prefer not to fight and just ignore provoking actions towards me. I can be quite the jokester and would not refrain from saying jokes or pulling simple tiny pranks. I enjoy sports and my favorite sports are soccer, mma, and football. In describing soccer, I prefer to call it football as well, considering that I appreciate watching mexican soccer and in Mexico it represents it as "futbol."Aside from delighting in sports and its intensity, I also take liking in relaxing in playing video games or card games. My favorite video games consist of sport games and fighting games, while I enjoy playing Yugioh as a card game. That aspect of myself can describe an awkward identification of myself, but those are the activities that I adore. Exercise contributes to the activites that I am most fond of in my daily life. Almost everyday I spend a hard working hour in order to maintain my form, and I have always said that a shower after a nice long run can award refreshness. Although I relish on exercising, I don't usually compete in sports unless it convives of having fun. I used to participate in sports, and I will keep those memories forever, but I don't take part in any sports anymore due to my character and attitude. Well, my future roommate, this has been my letter of introduction to let you know how I am and that I would delight in being your new roommate.

Journal #14 Uncontrollable Wealth

The quote,"He does not possess wealth, it possesses him," is a quote that conveys truth in the desire of money in human beings. Everybody aspires for money and power and will do just about anything to obtain it. Either by harsh determination or being born in to a rich family, it is very common to acknowledge people being controlled and abused by their money. Once they are at the top, they also dismiss the ways how they started and can throw away money easy. In the quote, being possessed by money can evoke a strong desire to aquire it and not care for anything else in life. My father has always told me that, money is not everything in the world, nor it can buy everything. The subjects who abuse their vast amounts of money are disgraceful, because their are people who are in need and would appreciate money to survive. An awesome english teacher once told me that, if you don't give something back to the communtiy, you never actually existed. These abusers I have noticed often rely on using money to cure all their problems, being problems with the law, their family, or their health. A terminal disease won't be cured with money, and that's when those people acknowledge the fact that money can't buy everything in this world.

Journal#15 More Money

Including diverse clubs in a college campus would greatly improve reputation of the college and attain money for further activies. The clubs that will refresh the tasteness in the school would include specific video game clubs such as FIFA series and card game clubs such as the Yugioh series. I am delighted to know that an abundance of people are intrigued by these activities and will enjoy them at a social place such as a college campus. To acquire entrance to these special clubs, an application with a low fee is required. Not only these clubs are admitted in the college, other clubs are admittable with different aspects.  These other clubs can contain art, video, or other faculties that interest the people. Since these clubs would gain a huge following in the college campus, it is foreseen that the college can gain a considerable amount of money. In America. we are suffering from a vast debt that has harmed many states that most, including California. The golden state has had problems with debt, and that problem has dwelled into colleges and other types of schools. Integrating clubs into college campuses could lose money at first, but the continuation and the determination of students confiding into their favorite clubs can vastly improve a college's reputation, and more importantly, improve their economic status.

Journal #16 Now or Never!

Ever since I was a chubby, and cute tiny toddler, I suffered from bullying from a cousin. He was 365 days older than me, but he would always get a feeling of happyness when toying around with me. It was'nt until I was 7 or 8 years old(I don't remember), when my family and my cousins family united at Qualcomm Stadium to watch the San Diego Padres play(a long time ago!). At first it was all fine, we were all having a nice time by tailgating before the game. I was sitting on the trunk of my dad's pickup truck, while enjoying my purple gameboy. I remember I was playing a Power Rangers game(I loved Power Rangers). What I remember next, was when I was getting a seat to watch the game, my obnoxious cousin said something offensive which gave me a sort of a dilemma. The dilemma was, either suffer from his stupid acts of annoyance or get in trouble if I punch him in the face. Well I didn't really think it, as I struck him in the face with a nice right hook! Even though his mouth started to bleed, I felt very relieved. After that incident, he hasn't annoyed me....until I was like 12 or 13, but again I came on top.

Journal #17 This Time...It's Personal!

An issue that really grinds my gears is the war on drugs in Mexico. I think that it is ridicolous as how I see the country in which I was born to suffer from such pain as this. Now and then, I think to myself as how the narcs relentlessly kill many people and that gives me a somber feeling. I then proceed in thinking that those people are inhuman and they take the easy way in life, because they do not want to work hard. What I think that is annoying is when people try to act like they are a narc by listening to songs made for narcs and by acting like one. Although, the narc issue can be compared to the mafias in America and the yakuza in Japan, I have a strong reaction to the narcs in Mexico. The worst part, is that this grotesque issue lessens the amount of turists in Mexico, because of the danger of dying. Although you would have to be inside the narcs "territorry" or "problem" in order to be in actual danger. I just wish that this issue would just end and restore some peace in the country.

Journal #18 An Entertaining Campus

I consider the school campus to be alright, but i do have two reasons to improve it. First of all, i would love to include more trees in order to create a more natural environment. The trees would be integrated in the grass areas(obviously) and would have to have vibrant green leaves, in order to capture that feeling of nature. I believe that an abundance of people would concede that including more trees into our campus can make it more lively and exuberant. The second feature that I would like to be included, would be the addition of sexier tables to eat at. In my opinion, i feel uncomfortable sitting in those rock hard tables, and it is more uncomfortable when you are eating and you are thinking about it(It is very annoying!). I would request tables that are longer in size and have some cushion for the seats. I realize that this offer could be expensive, but I would comply that many would appreciate to eat and hang out with their friends in sexy tables!

Journal #19 More education=More Respect

School attendance should be mandatory, without a question. Attending school makes the students gain more knowledge and perceive the world with higher intelligence. I have learned that being more intelligent frees me from being an ignorant person, and that also aids to a better personality. The real reason for the mandatory attendance of school begins in improving the oppurtunites of students in America. Students that attend school can  work hard to improve their grades and will always have a more knowledge than a person who rarely steps into a school campus. If attendance to school would not be mandatory, many students can transform into homeless and have problems of getting jobs and having a terrible future. This would also harm the respect of the education in America, and it would suffer from more ridicule from annoying nations. Even if school attendance would not shift to being mandatory, the person that would want to succeed in life, would not miss a single day.