Author: jacqueschrist.toussaint

Dear Professor ___:

Adress issue. blah blah blah blah blah blah i wont be in class due to blah blah blah blah blah.I apologize for the inconvenience and hope to make up all the work ASAP.

Sincerely,

Jacques T.

 

My name is Jacques-christophe toussaint. i moved here from new jersey but was originally from france. I excited for college to enfold, even though the first semester is pretty much done at this point. I wish the administration was better. I like to play sports in general. i was captain of the track team in HS. i want to be an econ/finance major with a minor in math. Later i hope to work for the UN, the IMF or the World Bank, but it probably wont happen straight out of college. anyway i just wanna do my work and finish school as fast as possible so im going to try to finish it in 3 years.

I went to a resume workshop a few weeks ago. it was really helpful. when i first showed the guy my resume he pretty much tore it apart. it was kind of funny how he had written more than i had. he sent me this really useful outline for a resume, that i used and now it looks extremely professional. i submitted it to a few places and so far i have gotten lots of positive responses, even though i’m not seriously looking for a job. the only that sucked was how he mentioned we shouldn’t talk about stuff we did in high school. everything that i have thats resume worthy was done in high school.

I went to a workshop on how to effectively save money through college in order to come out fine and without major credit card debt. the information in the it was great but it was pretty boring. The guy did point out some cool things though. he told us it was best to graduate in 4 years, because thats one more year to get a job and earn money, even though graduating in 5 can be easier. he also discussed how quickly expenses can pile up if we do no watch what we are spending. He was a nice guy overall. the problem was just some of his math was way off.

Jacques Toussaint

Monologue

 

I moved to the United States when I was 10 years old at the beginning of the fifth grade, following my mother and her job at the United Nations. Ever since then, my life and culture has been changing to create the person that I am today. When I first arrived, I did not speak nor understand a single word of English and had a hard time for the first few years.

Eight years have passed since that and now I’m attending college in the city; a place where I can practice and maintain my second language while meeting new people from all around the world with backgrounds as colorful as mine. My father is a mix of Moroccan and French while my mother was born and raised in the ivory coast, a small country in western Africa near Ghana and Togo. I grew up with that heritage in France, and it was already colorful. So when I moved here, and I was a French, Moroccan, and Ivorian mix I stood out like a sore thumb in the small suburban new jersey town I moved to. I was quickly known around the mostly Jewish community but managed to integrate myself in the town despite the many cultural differences.

Now I have lived in New York and am enjoying it very much. I get to meet people of familiar backgrounds and have managed to even find people from the region the village I grew up from in France, which only had a population of about 500. Although my move here was recent, I feel like this is where I want to be and where culture thrives, clashes, and evolves constantly.

Of course, I am proud of my heritage and who I am. I’ve come a long way to become who I am and I’m glad I ended up being who I am today.