Love Bites

I don't care what anyone says..I believe that ALL GUYS ARE THE SAME. Simple as that. There is nothing you can say or do to try to make me change my opinion about that whatsoever! They all lie, they all cheat, they all break their promises and they all are jerks (when it comes to relationships of course). They might not show it all the time but trust me, the jerk is in them 24/7. I've had terrible experiences with guys, well i've only had one real boyfriend but still. You wouldn't believe all the BS he put me through, and with the stories about guys that I have heard from my female cousins, my sister, and my female friends..whooo! I got enough with that! I also have a 21 year old guy cousin that I am super close with and we tell each other everything. So, I know what a guy's perspective is when it comes to girls and stuff like that, and it ain't pretty! I love my cousin and all but i can safely say that he can be a real A-hole with females. He tells me the way he thinks and his deepest thoughts, it's weird cuz it's like damn so that's how guys really think. It sucks. But that's reality, that's why I don't really like talking to guys in that way, I definitely DO NOT fall for guys easily, I am not one to mess with lol. But yeah I think I would rather stick to girls. Girls are more sensitive and more understanding. But overall, I think I am done with relationships for a cool minute, I need to worry about myself and do me for now...=]

About Me...=]

Well, my name is Alejandra, but you can call me Ale. I turned 17 years old on February 14th, and no I'm not "hella lucky" to have been born on Valentine's Day, if anything it's like a curse; I've had the worst birthdays ever, I cannot think of one single year when I had a good birthday. But anyhow, I have one sibling, a big sister named Diana, who is 20 years old. She and I fought a lot growing up, and at one point we became the best of friends, but now all that has changed because all of a sudden she thinks she's hella grown and she knows it all and she's way too bossy, so we don't really get along anymore because of that; we clash way too much. But yeah, I am a senior and I'm about to graduate in about 3 days (June 10th!). I am very excited, especially because I am graduating a year early (I skipped a grade), so i'm hella juiced and i can't wait to move on with my life. I love to eat, and I love trying new foods I find it to be very fun. I also love to watch t.v. A LOT, it might sound kinda loser-ish but i don't care lol, i could watch t.v. all day every day for the rest of my life and be happy! But yeah, i like going to parties, i'm not really that much of  a party girl, but when I do party I like to go all out and have hella fun. I am kind of a shy person and I tend to be more on the conservative side, which is why I don't really have a lot of friends, but i'm okay with that because i don't trust too many people and it takes a lot for me to really trust a person, that's just the way i have always been. I would rather have one or 2 really close friends, than to have a lot of friends who are just "friends" ya know. You think you might really know a person but you never know when they might switch up on you and go bad. So that's why i'd rather roll solo. I enjoy writing and learning new words, and I am a champ speller. It totally bothers me when people misspell words, I will usually correct them no matter how small the word or how tiny the mistake. I think I am very "different", i'm not like your average 17 year old girl, or at least I don't feel like I am. But I don't care I am who I am. I'm very random and I joke around a lot and I tend to be very sarcastic most of the time, there are very few people who get my sarcasm, and there are times when people don't get it at all. That bugs me and those are usually the people who I don't get along with. (To be continued...)

Alameda...

Alameda is a very urban place that I have visited all of my life. There are a lot of white people there but most of them aren’t like “laguna beach” type of people. I saw a lot of potheads around in the parks and in the street, mostly teens. As well as a lot of skateboarder type of dudes. There are a lot of restaurants and cafés down the main street. I ate at an Italian restaurant called “Tomatina”, I had a very Italian thin crust pizza with mushrooms, some really good cheese that I forgot what it’s called, and it had many herbs that I don’t know what they’re called lol. Not a very good description of the pizza I know, but I’ll tell you that it was soe of the best pizza I’ve had in a while. But yeah, I think it’s a very diverse place and the beach is great, the shopping center is even better. They’re like remodeling the whole thing and it’s looking way better than it did 10 years ago.

 

My Blog- My Thoughts Part I

I think that being in this class I definitely pushed myself a lot, to get through or assignments and stuff. I didn’t really want to be in this post-session because I thought it would be boring, but I pushed myself to try to do the blogs and all that, and I actually started to find it kind of fun. At first, the reason why I pushed myself was for the simple fact that I had to complete post-session in order to graduate, but afterwards I was glad that I was put here. Although there wasn’t anyone in the class that I actually knew like that or spoke to I feel like I overcame my shyness, because I do get kind of shy sometimes around people that I don’t really know, but I made the effort to talk to them and get to know them. I also overcame my fears of talking to complete strangers for our interviews, in our groups I was usually the one who did all the talking as far as the interviews go. On our trips I tried new foods that I never thought I would try, like the Chinese food, and I also tried a new type of sushi that I had never tried before. I don’t think there was a time when I decided not to try something new, or at least I can’t think of anything. I think I’ve done a pretty good job.

Wellum...

Today i am feeling pretty excited. I am proud of myself because i presented my senior science exhibition earlier and i passed! I am so happy that i have one less thing to worry about, but i can't get too comfortable just yet, i still have to do my senior presentation on friday. I am very nervous about it because the first time I did it, it went terribly wrong and i failed. But hopefully this time will be better and I will try to be more prepared than I was last time. But I still want to celebrate the fact that I passed the science one lol.

The Castro

The Castro in San Francisco is such a wonderful place, it's a place where you can be who you are without worrying about people judging you. I was excited to visit The Castro, && being that i am bisexual I was expecting to see a lot of both men and women, but I was surprised when i saw nothing but gay men walking around. Nothing wrong with that at all, just kind of disappointing for me lol. I think it looks beautiful with all the rainbow flags EVERYWHERE! Anywhere you look you will see a rainbow flag. It seems like a very peaceful place where everyone gets along, and where everyone talks to each other, and you feel so safe and so comfortable walking around it's great! The funniest thing happened when we went out for lunch lol. We went to this little diner where they sell all kinds of burgers as well as hot dogs and stuff. so as i was trying to decide what i wanted to eat i was looking at the menu and i saw that they had hot links and it sounded pretty good. Since in most places the links are pretty small, i decided to ask the guy who was taking the orders how big the links were. So i say "how big are your hot links?", and he shows me with his hands how long they were. So i say, "well..how thick are they?", and i just hear Olivia and the other girls laughing behind me, and the guy starts turning hella red and he starts laughing too. I was kind of lost for a second and then i thought about it and i realized that it didn't really sound right when i asked him lol. And then he showed me again with his fingers how thick they were, and then i say, "Can you show me one?", and the dude starts HELLA laughing..and the thing was that it was so unintentional, and i so didn't mean it that way i just really wanted to know if the links were big or small. but it was hilarious when he pulled out the wiener, and he just waved it at me haha. you had to be there man, it was pretty funny : )

My Trip to Lake Shore

Lake Shore was..."whatever"!. Nothing special or out of the ordinary, it's just Oakland, to me. Except of course the fact that there are more white people in that area, but i already knew that. I used to go to Lakeview Elementary (which is right down the street) and I used to be around there a lot so I already knew what it would be like before we went. There are many little shops and cafes, and the people are very friendly. No one was rude to us or anything so that was good. So yeah i didn't really have any surprises and nothing shocked me at all about Lake Shore. We also went to the 'Rose Garden' on Grand Ave., which is exactly what it sounds like; a garden full of nothing but beautiful roses. It was very pretty, it was like being inside of a fairytale or something, it is so romantic and it's for sure a place you would want to go with your significant other. I had also been there before too so it wasn't anything new either, but I did enjoy it alot. And as I said yesterday, "If i were a hobo I would SO live here" lol. Cuz it's true. I probably really would live there...(thank God i'm not a hobo though!)

My Trip to Old Oakland

Friday was a lot of fun at our trip to Old Oakland. I never knew that every Friday we had a Farmer’s market there! Most of the sellers were from out of town, but they were all very nice and friendly. The best part of the farmer’s market was definitely the samples, yummm! I got to sample many different foods from fruits and vegetables (all organic), to granola and Indian food, everything I tried was hella good. I think I’m SO going to start going there every Friday for some food lol. But food wasn’t the only thing that was being sold out there, there was also this lady selling beautiful hand made jewelry, and this guy selling African type clothing, and t-shirts and stuff. The jewelry-selling lady told me that everything that was being sold HAD to be hand made, nothing could be bought and sold, so I thought that was pretty cool.
After all of that sampling I decided that I wanted to try some food from a restaurant near by, right in front of the market at a Sushi place. I had smoked salmon and avocado rolls, and I also tried some chicken teriyaki rolls, they were delicious! I forgot what the place is called but when I remember I will let you know. It was great and I would definitely recommend it to others, but you would probably want to get your sushi TO GO. The waiters were kind of creepy, and not that friendly. But anywho, don’t forget to go to Old Oakland this Friday and get some yum-o food!

My Trip to Rockridge

Rockridge is a very interesting and different part of Oakland. I had been there before but not like I did yesterday. Yesterday I actually went inside the little stores, I ate there, and I talked to a few people who live there. It kind of reminds me of a “Laguna Beach” type of place, with a lot of rich white people. White people are definitely the majority and there were only a handful of minorities sprinkled here and there. There are a lot of little stores and restaurants, and coffee shops but none of them are mainstream except for a Trader Joe’s and a Safeway. I ate at a pizza at a place called Zachary’s Pizzeria or something, and the food was great! I also went inside the little stores to look at clothes which to my surprise were extremely expensive; we’re talking $130 for a plain white t-shirt okay! Ri-di-culous! I mean, that says a lot right there, because I doubt anyone in East Oakland would be able to afford that, and even if they could I doubt they would be stupid enough to waste their money like that lol.But anyways, most of the people were very friendly, a few were very snobby but hey! I interviewed about 6 people; I asked them questions about what they thought about their community, and if they thought their community was diverse and things like that. They all said pretty much the same thing, that it was a relatively safe area, kind of diverse but not really, a few incidents have occurred around there, and that there were mostly white people and not very many blacks or Latinos. I enjoyed my visit to Rockridge but I don’t think it would be a place where I would want to live. To me it seems kind of boring, or like everyone does the same thing, and that’s not my style at all. I would say the best part was the food, they have so many different places to eat and they all looked great, so if I ever go back to Rockridge it would most likely be just to have a bite!

My Trip to Chinatown

Even though I have lived in Oakland all my life, I had never been to Chinatown. Yesterday was my first time actually going and walking around there. Before I went, my perceptions of Chinatown were that it was going to be just like being in China, which it was. There were Asian people everywhere, Asian stores, Asian restaurants, Asian street signs, Asian everything! So, my perceptions didn't change at all, it was pretty much everything I expected.

There are major differences between Chinatown and Fruitvale like the people, the cultures, the stores, the surroundings. Fruitvale is full of pretty much nothing but Latinos, while Chinatown has nothing but Asians. I didn’t really find any similarities between the two. One thing that surprised me a lot was the food. I never knew that the Chinese food we're used to eating is very American. My teacher Mr. Lee who was with me on this trip, and who just so happens to be Chinese was telling me how real Chinese food was very different to let’s say Panda Express and how he didn’t think that Americans could handle it. So we went to a very Chinese restaurant with real Chinese food, and what could I say! It was definitely different. I loved the food, the textures were different, as well as the taste, but I really liked it a lot. My favorite thing that I tried was the pig meat, and this type of bread covered in noodles, they were yummy!

Grafitti in Oakland

This photo was taken at an alley in the back of Life Academy High School in Oakland, California. This is a symbol how ghetto and dangerous Oakland really is. You can see people like to tag their turf, what gang they’re in, or what clique they belong to as well as their nicknames or “tagging names”. They cross other things out and write what they want. I remember when I first started going to Life Academy in the fall of 2007, and there weren’t really any taggings on the wall, I guess they had painted over them or something, and as time went by I started seeing more and more taggings. I just think it looks horrible and I think the people who do it are ridiculous! I think gangs and cliques are ridiculous as well. These are the reasons why people get killed every day, and really, when you think about it, it’s over NOTHING. Like, don’t these people have anything better to do than to write on walls? Get a piece of paper and write on it!