Interview

     
  I had the chance to interview Betty Johnson “The bee”. I was really glad I actually got partnered up with her because when I first saw her and when I had the chance to read some of her blog’s she looked like a real fun and easy to talk to person. So I hope all of you enjoy reading this little interview.
            Betty is Chinese, thirty years young, she’s the youngest of 2. She likes the color purple and hang out with friends and family on her free time. I asked her how would u describe yourself in 3 words? She responds “goal oriented, being a kid at heart, and caring”. Something that motivates her in attending college and continuing with her learning is to get better knowledge since without education there’s really nothing. Being an elementary teacher also motivates her to be in college. Since she is a teacher her schedule starts as soon as she’s up and starts getting ready to arrive at work. She starts teaching from 8am to 3:30pm. She also said that she is “traveling from one place to another” all day, as soon as she’s out of work she goes home and does some of the household stuff and then goes to college. Balancing family, school and work is always different each day.
            Betty’s older guy cousin Victor is one of her role model in her life. He’s a very outgoing person and stands up for what he has to say and she admires that. Betty considers herself as a mentor with the kids she teaches at her work, because every single kid in there looks up to her and she teaches them what’s right and what’s not. In 5 years she sees herself with no kids; but if it happens it happens, she also sees herself as a High School counselor or an assistant principal.
            Some of the things she likes from Oxnard college is the social environment. The things she thinks the college needs improvement is the way some of the professors teach, and I can totally agree with her because I got to experience some teachers I had and some that I have now they make class so boring and just makes us fall asleep, I think they should make there class a but more fun and enjoyable. Her "Motto" or philosophy is " Keep moving on up with your education and have Fun in Life!" Some of the ways Betty’s culture influence her decision to come to college is that Asian culture push you to succeed and make u strive for the best, and want the best for there family.






Betty Johnson Blog link- http://tinybc80.blogspot.com/

Ahh!!! D:

I’m never going to forget the day when I did something I would never thought of doing in my life. Almost two years ago I went the strawberry festival with my best friend Cindy and her step dad. I remember that day being very sunny and seeing a lot of people there. As we were walking around the festival we got to the area where there were rides and activities you can do, one thing that cached my attention was the bungee jump. I stood there for a good while watching other people jump, and thinking how brave all those people were. I dislike height very much since the day when I went to Santa Monica pier when I was about 10 years old. My dad told me and my brother Fernando if we wanted to get on the boat ride, when I saw it I didn’t think it was a scary ride; until I got in the boat. It started of slow rocking back and forth and little by little the boat started going higher and I remembered getting the most awful feeling in my stomach that I started crying and yelling that I wanted to get off. So the guy who was in charge of the ride stopped it, I quickly got off and ran to my mom crying my eyes out. Since then im terrified of rides and height. So watching people bungee jump made me get that awful feeling in my stomach again.

            As I was standing next to Cindy her step dad asked her if she wanted to bungee jump she said “yes” at the time she was a few weeks pregnant I remember telling her that she couldn’t jump because of that. But then she told me nothing was going to happen since she was only a few weeks pregnant, so I went along with it saying that’s true; when her step dad paid for her they started getting her ready to jump. As I saw her going up and up I started to get nervous and scared for her, next thing I hear is one of her friends yelling at her saying “what are you doing!? Are you crazy?!” Cindy say’s “why?” her friend says “you can’t jump! Something can happen to your baby! You better get off!!” So Cindy did and I was relieved she did too, when she got down her step dad asked her why she got off but she simply said “I was scared”. So now her step dad asked one of the guys if he can get his money back but he said “no” and then her step dad asks me “do you want to jump?” I said no thanks! I’m way to scared, he says “aw its okay then” but then I thought to myself those $40 are going down the drain I should just do it. So I said okay I’ll jump. Cindy tells me “oh my goodness Itzel are you sure?!” and I said yeah let’s do this! As I started getting ready to jump the crain started going higher and higher everybody started getting smaller and I of course started getting scared because it was so high up. The guy starts giving me instructions and then he says “on count at 3 let go and jump” I say okay. He says “one..two…”I yell out wait!wait! im not ready im so scared what if the rope breaks or I hit myself or something!? He responds “don’t worry nothing is going to happen, just jump and you’ll get over it” I say no!no! can’t you lower it down a little it’s to high up! Of course he laughs saying “no”. Literally after being up there for about 15 minutes I can hear the crowd on the bottom yelling “jump!jump!” and the guy started telling me “if your not going to jump we have to go down already” I tell him no! ill jump just give me a minute. He say’s “no!” you’ve been up here for to long you have to jump” when I started to walk little by little to the edge I put my hands back and grabbed myself from two handles and I leaned forward the guy starts to count “1..2…” I yell out WAIT!! And he says “no more waiting” and he started to lift up my fingers from my right hand so I could let go but I wouldn’t let him and I don’t remember what I got distracted with and I let go of the handles as soon as I did that the guy pushed me and I remember when I was falling I was trying to get back up which it was impossible to do. I felt that I made the most hilarious face expressions and getting a lot of butterflies in my stomach as I was falling. When it was all over my legs were shaking and the guy who pushed me tells me “I told you it wasn’t going to be bad” I respond by saying shut up!. After I got off I was I couldn’t believe I actually bungee jumped and it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be, and those $40 didn’t go to waste and Cindy didn’t get to jump so it was good.

            Now that I look back I’m glad I jumped because I got over my fear of getting on roller coasters and any other ride. Now I tell myself if I can bungee jump I can do anything, because not a lot of people have courage to jump. Now I love the adrenaline when ever I do something crazy. I love going to six flags magic mountain and getting on all the roller coasters, my favorite one is “goliath” I love that drop in the beginning of the ride. Next thing I want to do is jump out of a plane it looks like so much fun and I know ill have a good experience doing it.

Texting frenzy!

Oh how I love to text! I text 24/7...Well not literally because that’s just impossible, unless I was a vampire or something like that. Back when I was in junior high I remember my parents canceling my cell phone because “I passed my unlimited texting” I have no idea how I did that but I did. After that I didn’t have a cell phone until I got out of highschool and my texting continues!. I see people texting all the time when there walking, in class, office, eating, playing, working etc. Not to long ago I saw a video on youtube of this girl texting while she was walking in the mall and because she was so entertained she fell inside a water fountain it was hilarious! But she still stood up and continued texting! For me its an everyday thing that I do I text a lot of people every day to the moment I wake up and go to sleep, and im sure it’s not only me doing this.

I think texting got and its getting bigger and bigger by the minute. I say this because I don’t remember back in the day seeing cell phones with keyboards and all this good stuff everybody would just call or pager each other. And now I see cell phones everywhere with keyboards and touch screen keyboards to make texting much faster and not having to call each other just to say something real quick. I hardly see payphones and I think the reason is because nobody calls anymore everyone is just texting away. I think texting can and is very addicting and sometimes even annoying to a lot of people. But hey! Our world is evolving every day, coming up with something new and who knows maybe someone will invent something better than texting.

Oh yeah!! REALITY TV! Yeahhh!!

I love watching all types of reality shows; I find them entertaining and funny. Some of the shows I watch is “Jersey shore”, “Keeping up with the Kardashian’s”, “Bad girls club”, “The real housewives”, “My big fat gypsy wedding”, “cake boss”, “true life”; the list can go on. I love watching “Jersey Shore” I can’t miss it every Thursday at 10 p.m. im in front of my TV, I also like watching that show because I get to see my future husband (Pauly D). I think he’s a total cutie not a lot of people agree with me though. “Keeping up with the Kardashians” is always fun to watch because the way they act as a family and stuff they do together. The “Bad girl’s club” show is just full of drama and girl fights I just love it! I usually watch that online though because I don’t get the “oxygen” channel. Something about the real house wives makes me get motivated when I get older because there still fashionable and look there best at there age but the reason for that is because the money they have and tons of botox they get, I also get motivated watching there show because they live in beautiful houses and have very nice cars. The show “My big fat gypsy wedding” is always very interesting because the soon to be wife’s go all out when it comes to literally everything; its CRAZY. The cakes Buddy makes from the show “cake boss” are just amazing! I usually learn a thing or two about cake making. Lastly, the show “true life” I like to watch because the competitions they do and the fights they get in to are insane. There’s ONE reality TV show that I really don’t like to watch which is “16 & pregnant” for the reason that the girls there are so annoying and ridiculous about stuff it gets me so mad, I prefer not watching it. But when there’s nothing to watch ill usually watch it.

            I don’t think these type of shows are harmful in any way to our society unless you go out and do the stupidity some of these shows show,  but that’s really usually up to you; NOT the show(s).  I also think there’s nothing benefiting in some of the reality shows because there’s nothing to learn about them maybe there’s a thing or two u can learn but it always depends in the show u watch. For example when I watch some of the shows I pay attention to a lot of the girl’s hair and makeup since I love doing both of these things I get to practice on me or on someone these different looks. I also notice a lot of they way they dress and some of the styles different people/celebrity’s have.  I can say watching reality shows are a “guilty pleasure” for me. Not so much the guilty part but the pleasure especially on Thursday’s because I get to watch “jersey shore” after almost a week of school, since I don’t have school on Friday so it’s my pleasurable treat. 

Yummy in my tummy^-^

     
Fast food wasn't that big during my childhood, because my mom would always cook the most delicious Mexican meals ever; and still does! for example: pozole, tamales, enchiladas, sopes, tacos, burritos, chicken soup, homemade flour tortillas with chicken, rice and mole on the side the list can go on. We would hardly eat out, and if we did we would go to Chinese places and everything my parents would get had more vegetables than anything else, one thing they would usually order is Shrimp or chicken chop suey with fried rice and the rice usually had carrots and peas. Sometimes we would eat breakfast at McDonald's beacause that's the only thing we liked from there, there deluxe that came with pancakes, hash brown, bacon, egg, and two English muffins or an egg McMuffin. When ever we ate out it was usually a prize for being good at school, having good grades and little things like that or even if we were craving it because as bad as fast food can be it sure is very good tasting!.So eating out was never a big part during my childhood because of my parent's and since both of them were raised in Mexico and since there were no fast food places back in the day they were raised  eating homemade foods.
     My fast food food habits now are not that bad; at least I think so. My mom always tells me that i have really bad eating habits, because I don't eat a lot of vegetables and if I do eat them I usually pick what vegetables I eat and the one's I don't. My mom dislikes very much when I do that and sometimes she tells me if I don't eat what she tells me to eat I won't be able to go out and when ever she says that I HAVE to eat it. What I can eat for a days and not get tired of it is a large pizza from Topper's and a salad. When I was going to beauty school i actually ate a pepperoni pizza, salad, and a cold coke for a whole week and i never got tired of it, that's how much I love that place. I really don't consider it a fast food place though. I usually never go to McDonald's because I don't like their burger's and it makes my stomach hurt. The only thing I like about that place is there deluxe breakfast with an apple juice and there chicken nuggets.Sometimes I think it plays a big part of my life because if I don't find nothing to eat at my house or I don't find nothing to cook I quickly go out and go get something to eat. I know I won't get a bad fast food habit though because it's bad if u abuse it and have a lot of risks, and obviously that's never good because it's never fun getting sick or even worst having to go to the hospital because you're very ill, right?.