Describe the world you come from — for example, your family, community or school — and tell us how your world has shaped your dreams and aspirations.
When I first held a baby in my hands it was like i was looking at a little fragile angel. It was one of the greatest moments in my life. Ever since I was a child I was attached to babies, toddlers and infants. On various occasions I was entrusted to watch and protect babies and little kids in general. Kids are the foundation of me wanting to work with kids for a living. I once had a job working with kids, it was my first official internship at a recreation center. I started working there because my little brother had behavioral issues so I was there to watch him, but when the Manager saw how I interacted with the kids and how in my eyes he saw my passion for being with kids, he asked me if I wanted to be an intern. I accepted knowing I would love this job. I woke up everyday that summer, bright and early with a smile on my face. All of the kids loved me, they always wanted me to play with them in everything they did. When we went to the parks they would always ask me if I would push them on the swings. they would walk pass the other workers and come straight to me and ask if I could play with them. they were how I got my daily work out. i would push them on the swings, I would play basketball with them, I would race them, if they wanted to play on teams I was always on both teams helping everyone. This is what I love to do, I love seeing kids smile and I love knowing that I put that smile on their face. When we had toddlers or infants at the recreation center they would always run up to me and jump in my arms asking me what we would do that day, I would have a bunch of little kids around me the whole day. there was not a second I would not have a little kid around me. People always think that little kids are annoying and always want to be with the big kids. But what they really want is you to play with them and give them you attention. I was always that person and I love being that person that puts smiles on the kids faces the whole summer.
Tell us about a personal quality, talent, accomplishment, contribution or experience that is important to you. What about this quality or accomplishment makes you proud and how does it relate to the person you are?
Ever since I was a little girl I wanted to be a cheerleader. I would watch all of the movies with the pretty cheerleaders in their cheer uniforms cheering at the high school football and basketball games getting thrown everywhere and getting all the attention. My cheer leading career and my love for cheer leading all started when I stepped on that field in Alameda, California. It felt like heaven, I was one of the smallest girls in my age group so I began as the flyer. I was with the older girls and I felt safe because there was a group of people surrounding me and protecting me from hitting the ground on my way down from the cradle.When you first step into their hands you don't really know if you can trust them because you don't really know the bases. You don't know how high in the air you will go because you don't know how strong the girls are and their strength determines how high they will throw you in the air. When you first step into their hands you get a little nervous because they can drop you at any point in the stunt. But when I get thrown into the air on the basket toss I ride it in the air, and I can't do anything until I feel myself coming down back into their hands. If I mess up at any point, the stunt won't look right. But while I am in the air the flyer is not supposed to look down or around because that can also mess up the stunt, so I always look into the crowd at my father who is smiling back at me, proud that his daughter is doing what I love. In the basket toss stunt there are various things the flyer can do while in the air, they can: do a front flip, a back flip, a toe touch, a pike, and even a herkey. My main things that I do while in the air of these stunts is a toe touch. That feeling I get while in the air is unreal, I feel like I'm flying but I can't get to caught up in that feeling because I have a job to do while in the air. That nervous feeling in the pit of my stomach that I call butterflies lasts for the first couple of times you fly with the same bases. But as soon as you change bases that feeling comes back because you don't know if you can trust the new people to catch you when you come back down or be strong enough to hold you up at all. I have been cheering for about ten years, I have been a flyer for most of those years but I also base, but that feeling of being in the air looking at my father stare at me with that smile on his face is a feeling that I love and will forever remember.
When I first held a baby in my hands it was like i was looking at a little fragile angel. It was one of the greatest moments in my life. Ever since I was a child I was attached to babies, toddlers and infants. On various occasions I was entrusted to watch and protect babies and little kids in general. Kids are the foundation of me wanting to work with kids for a living. I once had a job working with kids, it was my first official internship at a recreation center. I started working there because my little brother had behavioral issues so I was there to watch him, but when the Manager saw how I interacted with the kids and how in my eyes he saw my passion for being with kids, he asked me if I wanted to be an intern. I accepted knowing I would love this job. I woke up everyday that summer, bright and early with a smile on my face. All of the kids loved me, they always wanted me to play with them in everything they did. When we went to the parks they would always ask me if I would push them on the swings. they would walk pass the other workers and come straight to me and ask if I could play with them. they were how I got my daily work out. i would push them on the swings, I would play basketball with them, I would race them, if they wanted to play on teams I was always on both teams helping everyone. This is what I love to do, I love seeing kids smile and I love knowing that I put that smile on their face. When we had toddlers or infants at the recreation center they would always run up to me and jump in my arms asking me what we would do that day, I would have a bunch of little kids around me the whole day. there was not a second I would not have a little kid around me. People always think that little kids are annoying and always want to be with the big kids. But what they really want is you to play with them and give them you attention. I was always that person and I love being that person that puts smiles on the kids faces the whole summer.
Tell us about a personal quality, talent, accomplishment, contribution or experience that is important to you. What about this quality or accomplishment makes you proud and how does it relate to the person you are?
Ever since I was a little girl I wanted to be a cheerleader. I would watch all of the movies with the pretty cheerleaders in their cheer uniforms cheering at the high school football and basketball games getting thrown everywhere and getting all the attention. My cheer leading career and my love for cheer leading all started when I stepped on that field in Alameda, California. It felt like heaven, I was one of the smallest girls in my age group so I began as the flyer. I was with the older girls and I felt safe because there was a group of people surrounding me and protecting me from hitting the ground on my way down from the cradle.When you first step into their hands you don't really know if you can trust them because you don't really know the bases. You don't know how high in the air you will go because you don't know how strong the girls are and their strength determines how high they will throw you in the air. When you first step into their hands you get a little nervous because they can drop you at any point in the stunt. But when I get thrown into the air on the basket toss I ride it in the air, and I can't do anything until I feel myself coming down back into their hands. If I mess up at any point, the stunt won't look right. But while I am in the air the flyer is not supposed to look down or around because that can also mess up the stunt, so I always look into the crowd at my father who is smiling back at me, proud that his daughter is doing what I love. In the basket toss stunt there are various things the flyer can do while in the air, they can: do a front flip, a back flip, a toe touch, a pike, and even a herkey. My main things that I do while in the air of these stunts is a toe touch. That feeling I get while in the air is unreal, I feel like I'm flying but I can't get to caught up in that feeling because I have a job to do while in the air. That nervous feeling in the pit of my stomach that I call butterflies lasts for the first couple of times you fly with the same bases. But as soon as you change bases that feeling comes back because you don't know if you can trust the new people to catch you when you come back down or be strong enough to hold you up at all. I have been cheering for about ten years, I have been a flyer for most of those years but I also base, but that feeling of being in the air looking at my father stare at me with that smile on his face is a feeling that I love and will forever remember.
