10 things that I am grateful for!

1. I’m grateful for my health not only my health but my loved ones.

2. I’m grateful for having an opportunity of expanding my education to have a better future.

3. I’m grateful for having people in my life that love me for me.

4. I’m grateful for having a roof over my head.

5. Also for having a job and not always depending on others.

6. For having my best friend that understands me and looks after me.

7. I’m grateful for all I been through that made me the person I am today.

8. I’m grateful for my family even thought we have our ups and downs.

9. I’m grateful for having food.

10. I’m grateful for living in a world were there is hope just in living general am grateful for.

                                         School

Attending Oxnard College right after I graduated from High School was an unbelievable experience I actually loved it. I was very happy I didn't take time off from school. I think if I would of taken some time off would have been hectic. I believe I wouldn't be usto having to do assignments after assignments and going to class basically I would of lack off motivation to stay in school. Never the less I feel like I made the right decision of heading to college as soon as possible. Keeping up with my classes so far I hasn't been a problem. When I had my first class in Oxnard college I was very happy the reason why I loved how everybody in class is doing their own thing, mining their own business I just savor how everybody seemed matured unlike high school. In addition I liked how I get to choose the best time and day that suits my schedule to go to class. This semester has been going swell I hope it stay like this since now I finally have a job. My fist job ever and I hope I can keep up with my assignments and work at the same time, I know this would be a challenge but I know I can do it giving up is no option for me. I constantly  keep telling myself nothings impossible it may be hard at first but never impossible. Most importantly I want to prove to my family that I can do it I want to make my parents proud of me to show them that I will not fail but succeed that I will have the bright future I want and dream for and no one will tell me other wise.  

                                                              Reality TV

Television can be both good and bad. The good thing about television is you can educate yourself on what’s going on in the world. Another thing is some people use television so they can relax. For example I myself sometimes just turn on the TV to simple have some kind of background noise when I cant sleep I guess somehow it makes me feel relax when I hear someone else it just doesn’t make me feel alone. I remember when I was younger I usto love watching cartoons shows early in the morning. I would wake up as soon as my dad would wake up to go to work. At that time I wouldn’t be tired and I would tell my mother that if I could watch my cartoon shows. Its funny how TV had such an influence on me as a child but now things have change and I don’t wake up early to watch TV but stay in bed as long as I possible can. But to choose what to watch on TV has gotten more harder over time, the reason why it there is so many reality shows on TV. I do myself watch some reality shows one in particular that I do watch and I enjoy it somehow cause its funny and well it does its job and entertains me. Some people may say they enjoy watching realty shows because it shows them that some people are not as different as we thought. For example the reality show that I watch with my sisters is keeping up with the kardashians. I know so many people have their own opinions on this show but I think it all depends how you see it in your own way, but as for me I like to watch them they make me laugh and I mean who doesn’t like to be entertained. As for me watching this reality TV show doesn’t influence to be like them in any way am my own person and that’s that. What does influence me when I watch this show is I  would like is to visit some of the places that they have visited because it looks very beautiful. Watching TV is not a every day thing I would only try to actually watch some TV on Mondays and Sundays but that’s about it. Is not that I try to avoid TV I just don’t really want to watch TV. That’s why I don’t have a TV in my room I just keep myself busy and I just don’t want to watch TV most of the time.

Opinions

As a kid you never think whether your opinion’s matter. As one gets older life goes on decisions are made by doing so things change. As an adult you start to realized what you once thought as kid wasn't always going to stay the same. Your opinions change gradually over time as you get older you start to accumulate your own indications to assist your own opinion’s. As for me my opinion began to change the moment I discovered how having a baby is not all about the cuteness of the baby. But about having to take care of an actual human being with so much needs, attention and so on. When I saw my own sister having to take care of her baby when she was nineteen years old was a life change for me. She had just graduated high school with a baby in her hands her whole senior year she was caring a baby in her womb. But with that being said the pain she went through the moment the baby was born, I was their and I saw everything with my own eyes. When I saw how painful it must of been I thought to myself hell to the no that is not going to be me. As a kid I loved taking care of my little brother, I remember when he was born I was just four years old and I loved to help my mom out with him I would feed him and try to change his dippers. Back then it looked easy and I was wrong it is not easy. With that being said I give props to the women that had any baby’s of their own especially the single mother’s out their. Then my sister started revealing the reason’s she loved being a mother and I thought to myself well I do want to be a mother one day but not anytime soon.

                               Blog Entry : Food!

Growing up in a Mexican home all you would eat is home cooked meals. My mom would cook for us at home rather then to go out and eat fast food or as my dad will call “trash”. As you can tell by now both my parents were raised the old fashion way were all you would eat is Mexican home cooked meals. My mother loved to cook for us a family of six. I remember my mom would tell us come help me out with this so you can lean when you get older. At the age of twelve my mom would want us to be in the kitchen with her and help her out with the food. Mother would tell us come help me that way you can learn and cook for yourself. So later in life you can cook for your own family, just like how am cooking for you. My parents wouldn't really want to take us out and eat fast food rarely would they take my sisters my brother and I. Since my parents  were thought at a young age eating a home cooked meal is the best for you. If they did take us out a eat fast food it would be as a little treat for us. The days my parents would take us out and eat somewhere else rather then home it would be on a Saturday or maybe a Sunday. When they did take us out and eat it they would take us to McDonald's, Toppers or to a Mexican restaurant. When I was younger I remember eating my chicken nuggets and fries when we would go and eat at McDonald's I remember I loved going to McDonald's because of the play ground. At the time I guess it didn't really bother me that my parents would only take us out and eat fast food on a Saturday or Sunday I was a little girl and since I could remember I was thought to eat Mexican home cooked meals at a young age.
Compared to when I was a little girl things have changed and if I want to I will eat fast food I don’t have my parents telling me other wise. Now that am grown up I can see what fast food does to you. I can see that eating to much of it is unhealthy and it can lead to serious problems. In a regular basis I try to avoid fast food. Don’t get me wrong I love fast food but I know that if I eat to much of it  at the end its not going to be worth it. Yes I do eat fast food every now and then but if I had the choice not to eat fast food I wont I would much rather eat a home cooked meal. The way my parents raised me it did affect how I eat I don’t eat fast food as much only every now and then as a littler treat for myself.

                                            The Birth of a Child
  It was around seven in the afternoon I had just came from banner practice. As usual as soon as I came home I went straight to my room. When I went to my room I noticed that my sister Jessica wasn't their. That was unusual I thought to myself she would  always be their when I would come from my practice but today she wasn't their I had a weird feeling but I didn't really paid attention to the fact that I didn't see her in my room. Then I decide to ask my mother were Jessica could be. My mother respond was “I just saw her a minute ago“. I started to worry because I had just remember last night  over heard Jessica talking to her boyfriend about a baby. As soon as I heard that come out of her mouth I freaked out instantly I decided to call Jessica. Jessica did not answer my calls so then my mother decided to call her as well and no luck she wouldn't answer her phone until finally she picked up the phone. My mother asked Jessica, “were are you”? I remember Jessica staying quiet for a second but the she replied with an “am pregnant so I left” I remember my mother crying as soon as Jessica said she was pregnant, but my mother told Jessica, “were are you? I’m going to get you”!. when my sister heard what my mother had sad to her she clicked. Then my mother asked me if I knew were my sisters boyfriend lived and I said no I don’t really know what house. Mother told me just to tell her by were I thought he lived so did as she told me. As soon as we got to were I though he had lived my mother started to knock door to door to see were my sister was. Finally my mother found my sister mo mom was telling my sister come lets go tot the house and my sister would reply with a no am staying here. So then my sister boyfriend parents told my mother that they would go over to talk to my parents and settle this once and for all. Mother and I got back in the car and we drove home as soon as we got home my mother started to cry in front of my older sister Jocelyn telling her that my sister doesn't know what she doing why did she do this. An hour later when they came to talk  to my parents they had told my parents that Jessica was his responsibility starting today that he will take her to live with him and he did . Never will I forget how I disappointed I felt about my sister I wasn't disappointed because she was pregnant but the way she left. I remember I told myself why “would my sister put my parents in this situation”? why? did she leave out of the no were? why disappoint our parents when we knew what was expected from us, I remember I told myself I will not want to hurt my parents the way she did  will try my best to make them proud of me.  For almost a week I didn't talk to my sister I was mad at her. Till it hit me that I should talk to my sister Jessica no matter what she had done and the choices she had made one thing will never change and that was that no matter what she was always going to be my sister. Also I started to think I been selfish who knows what she’s been going through she probably needs me more than anything. So as soon as I saw my sister at school I told her if we could talk. When we started to talk remember apologizing and trying to understand her. The conversation was over and we hugged it out and Jessica started to tell me what has been changing and how she feel when she feel the baby’s kicks. As the moths passed we got closer and things started to fall into place. We found out the sex of the baby and we were all excited that it would be a girl. I remember the day my mother found out the sex of the baby she told me lets go shopping and we did all we bought was baby clothes my mother was so happy she couldn't wait to meet her. Finally only one more moth to go and my sister had told us what she already knew what to name the baby, it was “Nathalie” my mother started ti cry and said that is a beautiful name and  that she couldn't wait to meet Nathalie. The next day we went to school I remember my mom decided to take us to high school together because that day was the day we bough our graduation gown. My mother was so happy that of us were going to graduating. Everything was fine until it was nutrition time and I got a called from my sister saying she was at the hospital. As soon a I heard that my sister was in the hospital I wanted to head over to the hospital but I knew I had to wait till I school was over so my mother can come and pick me up. Finally school was over and my mother came for me and we headed on over to the Ventura Hospital. Then when we go to her room we heard he screaming the doctor said its almost time to push. My sister started to get contraction after contraction. Finally the doctor and the nurse came and said Jessica is time to push. As soon as the nurse told her to push I remember thinking to myself  “why do we have to go through so much pain as a women” “why do men have it easy”? When I saw in how much pain my sister was in I started to feel as if I was the one giving birth. Little by little I started to feel light headed so I got out of the room so I could catch my breath I was so exhausted of just watching her go through so much pain I could only imagine what she was actually experiencing. After a minute or so I went back in and I was happy I decided to go back in because my niece was almost here. One more push the doctor said and finally Nathalie came to this world. My mother, my sister Jocelyn and I started to cry we were so happy that Nathalie was born. Finally I became an aunt.

My Name

My name is Kimberly Flores. The way I got my name is I guess you can say its pretty

funny and I might add a bit embarrassing. The reason why is cause my parents didn't

know what to name me. By that time I already two older sister and my parents decided to

ask my sisters what my name should be. To be fair at the time both my sister were obsess

with this show called The Power Rangers. I’m pretty sure most of you have heard of

them and well both my sisters favorite power ranger was the pink one obviously so they

both decided to tell my parents my name should be Kimberly like the pink power ranger.

So then both my parents agreed that my name should be Kimberly. Basically both my

sister named me.

The name Kimberly is suppose a sweet compassionate girl that finds the beauty in

everything and that she is always willing to give a helping hand oh so I read. But to me

the name Kimberly is not really unique name I have meet so many Kimberly’s in

the past. Nonetheless it doesn't bother me that my name is common though I would like

for it to be unique but oh well I can complain.

I wouldn't want to change my name because that would be odd. Plus my sisters chose

this name because for them in some way they loved it and that means something to me. I

wouldn't want to change my name. Also I can not imagine myself with another name. I

would feel as if I have to be different in some way like if am not the same person. As if

am living a different life.