Rebecca’s Blog #2

I, honestly, do not remember a word from my monologue because it got erased from my head, like many useless information stored in my brain that I thought I didn’t need anymore. But, lets give it a try (more in depth of course).

I live in a basic traditional Latino home, where Spanish is the predominant language.  My mother doesn’t speak English but my dad does.  I live with my brother, who is the oldest, and is a computer technician and installs cameras (if anyone needs their computer fixed, just let me know! Cheap prices!!).  I also have a sister, but she moved out about 4 years ago to her own apartment, living by herself, which is pretty taboo in my household.  The deal is “You move out when your married” but shes always been an independent gal so she moved out, being the first one ever to do that.  Even though we hit hardships like every family out there, I love my family very much and they are my world.

So down to me.  I’m an 18 years young, who loves to be me and doesn’t care about what other people think.  I’m also independent but not as much as my sister.  I’m into sports and I love challenging sexist guys who say women don’t know anything about sports because last time I checked, I know plenty 🙂

Smiley face 🙂

I feel this picture describes me.  For the most part, I usually have a smile on my face [unless its early in the morning or I’ve had a horrible day].  In high school, I had a uniform I had to wear everyday and they were pretty strict about what to wear and not to wear that complied with the dress code.  The one thing the school had no problems with were buttons.  Freshman year, this lady very special to me gave me this button and told me “Always keep a smile on your face no matter what.”  I took those words to heart and decided to wear it everyday to live those words out.  Coincidentally, on the last day of Senior year, I lost the button in school and was no where to be found.  Devastated, I realized that I didn’t need that button to be happy, it was only just a physical reminder of what the lady had told me.  I felt like I only needed it through high school to remind me of who I am and that’s why it strangely disappeared on the last day.  At that moment, I realized that I no longer needed that button, I knew that happiness comes from within and believe it or not, it takes a great deal of energy to be happy.  This is why this smiley face, which may mean almost nothing to many of you reading this, means the world to me and I, Rebecca, proudly identify myself with this.