P1+BRamirez

MY HOUSE ON HAMILTON St
In my whole life we have lived in four different places. When I was born we lived in a house which my parents rented a room in the house lived a big family. Their were about 20 people. When I was two month old my parents decide that my mom and my older brother and I left to live with my Grandparents in Mexico. We left to Mexico because my mom needed help to raise me. I was born premature. I was to small so she needed help and she could not get the help hear because none of her relatives lived hear. When I was two years old we came back to live with my dad. We moved in an apartment complex. Their in the apartment complex my aunts an uncles lived their. We lived their for two years. Then we moved to Costa Mesa. We moved to Costa Mesa because it was closer to my dads work and it was a better neighborhood.

In the apartment complex there are six apartments. Four of the apartments they have two rooms. In the apartment beneath and mine we have three bedrooms. All of my neighbors know how to speak Spanish. Years ago their were a lady that only knew how to speak English. Her dotter was one of my friends. I was small and could not understand her but some way we communicated, but they moved away. They are all nice people. My best friend lived in the apartment complex. She moved away. I’ve been living in the same apartment for more than ten years. It is a nice neighborhood. My house is a humble house. My living room is a place which a lot of people hang out. The house is crying for new floors. The apartment needs a lot of repairs. It is a cloud in the sky. I share my room with my brother. My parents have their room. My cousin lives in the other room.

BOYS AND GIRLS
Boys and girls are treated different. It does not matter what race you are. The boys get more freedom than then girls. Adults think that boys are more responsible and they can take care of themselves. The girls are not allowed to go out to much. That is what is happening in my family.

When I want to go out and watch a movie with friends. The theater always asks how old I am. I am fifteen years old. I am not aloud to watch rated R movies. I have to come with a parent or an eighteen year old person (that is most likely my brother). My parent allows me to watch the movie. They just can’t come with me because they are busy doing something else.

Money is important in life to survive. I thought that it did not matter how much money you have you have to get the same education as all of the other public school. Where rich people attend in public schools they have more things. The get to go to more places. They get more variety of classes. Were poor people attend school they don’t have the same variety as wear the rich people don They don’t get to go to places as much as the rich people in public schools. I thought that all of the public schools get the same amount of funding.

HAIRS
My family has a verity of hairs. My dad has short and strait hair. It is like a soft brush. The silky thread going threw your hand. My mom has short and curly hair. She dose not have a lot of hair. It is like a lazy tumble ball. the bushy clouds that are different shapes. My brother Paco has short, thick curly hair. It is controllable. The bending of straws. My baby brother Tutan dose not have a lot of hair, he is a newborn. He has three strand of hair longer than the rest. It is like a little brush with not a lot of stand. The newborn chicken. My hair is long, thin, curly hair. It is swirls of chocolate. The crazy strings that go out of the can

MY NAME
Some people don’t like their name. I actually like my name. I don’t know a lot of people with my name. I think I’m the only one at my school with my name. My name is BEATRIZ. It is Latin. It means brings joy. My name is special to me. I was named after my great-grand mom. My great-grand mom is 107 years old. When she turned 100 years old she gave me her lucky bracelet. My lucky number is number 7. My name has 7 letters and my last name has 7 letters. My name Beatriz is when I’m in formal places. Like in school my teacher calls me Beatriz. When I’m with my friend they call me Betty. That my nick name. When I with my friend playing around they sometimes call me Betty Boop or Betty Spaghetti. I perfer that they cal me Beatriz Or betty. I'm use to that.



Friend
In my apartments they are a lot of kids from different ages. There are boys and girls. Many of them all ready grew up and got marry. We all get along. Sometimes we’ll get into arguments. My best friends live in the apartment. We hang out every day. We did things together. She moved away when we were in first grade. Also my other best friend lived their we used to have slumber parties all of the time. She was a year older than me. She used to go to my house and eat with my family. One day her mom decided that she had to live with her dad. She came back but it was not the same. So now I had no one to play. Then new neighbors moved in. they have a girl one year younger than me. We played together with Barbie’s. We had a great time. We used to play with this other girl that live in the apartments. We use to play Cinderella. I was the step mom and she was Cinderella. And the other girl was her stepsister. We still talk to each other. At one time my cousins came to my house to live with us. It was fun at the beginning, but then she had her boyfriend. She kind of ignored me for a wile until she broke up with her boyfriend. She is two years older than me.

Those who Don't
In every place in the world there are a place, which it is the rich side and the poor side. I live in the poor side. In the poor side there are mostly Hispanics. The schools are like that way divided. Some schools have mostly rich people and some schools have poor people. When the school competes in sports or other occasion. They are always looking to get out of the school. When they drive threw our city they are afraid that they might get shot. When the poor people drive by the rich side they are afraid that they might get stop by the police.

Marin
I have aneighboor that weighted for her price charming. She did not like to go to school. She drop out of school when she was in 11 grade. Then she moved out and left to live with her dad. Now she supposly found her prince charming. They got marry. They now have a dotter. She came to live with her mom for a while. Now she is moving out to her new apartment. it is difficle to just waigh for you prince charmiung. I don't want to weight like my neighbpr did. I want to get education for support.

And some more
They are many way to call the children. In English you call them by their name or just say!!!!” Children come here” In Spanish you can call they by their name and or “chiquillos ya se venga!!!” Latinos family name their children twice. On of the names in English and the other in Spanish. Or they just choose a name which you can prognosticate both in English and Spanish. Like my name BEATRIZ you can say it English and Spanish. There are many names that you can choose.

First job
Every high school student at Estancia High haves to do 40 hours of community service. You can do them in many ways. You can go help at a shelter, at the library, at an animal shelter or you can go help little children at boys and girls club. I’m doing my community service hours at boys and girls club. When I got their, the little kids thought that I was just going to be their to hang out and do nothing. I’m not their to hang out. I’m their to help them. I can help them in many ways. I can help the do their homework. I play with then if they need some one to play with. Now the kid respects me more. They know that I am their to help them. It is good to help out the community. You show them a good role model.

Mamanina
We went to Mexico fro Christmas vacation. We also went because my grandma was going to get operated. My grand mom came out of the operation good. Days passed and she got worst. She got sick. She had a virus that attacked her brain. The doctor told us that their was no hope of her recovery. She was in comma for one week. By January first she passed away. It was sad because we found out until the next day. My brother and I were with my other grandparents. When my parents came the next morning I could tell that something was wrong I noticed that my mom had been crying. My dad had a sad face. When they told us I started to cry. I saw that my brother was not crying. He was in shock. Then five minutes later he started crying. We could not believe that she passed away. It was really sad. We went to her funeral and then we left because we had to come back home.

Rafaela who drinks coconut and papaya juice on Tuesday
In this chapter Rafaela is marry to a man which he treats her bad. He does not let her go out. I don’t want to get marry with a man who he treats me bad. I don’t want just to stay with them because of the children or I don’t have money to support the kids and myself. I want to go to college and get a degree. I want that my future husband have a degree in what ever he wants. If he treats me bad I’ll leave. I have something to rely on.

The house of my own
My dream house would be a medium size hose. Not to big not too little. The house would have 4 rooms. One of them would turn into an office. The other three would be bedrooms. I would like to have a pool and a Jacuzzi. I would like to have as neighbors is my family. I would like to live near them. I would be happy with just a simple house. Not to big not too small.