That picture is pretty cool. That's one line , not really. OK. So In my about 15 year life that i have had our family has moved into four different places to live. I don't say houses for all of them because one of them was an apartment. The first house we lived in wasn't the greatest experience I can kind of remember. I was to young to remember details but what I do remember and what my mom has told me is what I'll say. It was basically three families living in that house. Which didn't work out that well, you get into arguments and what not. Oh and the other women there hated my sister and me for some reason, we would run around and make loud noises , and she would get all pissed. LADY WE'RE THE AGES OF 6 AND 5 WHAT DO YOU EXPECT. Anyway we got out of their because of that mainly, she ended up with the house to herself, but her husband left her so HA. Kind of messed up to say but then again she shouldn't of get all mad at us for just being kids. After that house we went to some apartment but i can't remember the name of the place. It was kind of annoying there because you really couldn't do anything. You had neighbors that basicly you shared a wall, so If we started getting loud they would complain. Couldn't run around there because the foot steps would just be heard downstairs. It kind of sucked. We had no front yard of course, so we couldn't play outside, we tried to build a snow man there once but it wasn't going to work out well because of the limited amount of space we had outside. Oh and my aunt lived in one of the apartments there. My mom would leave us there when it was like saturday and she had to go to work. Her apartment was the place where I learned that my taste buds and nose did not appreciate Kraft Mac and Cheese. Mom never gave us it for some reason, so when my aunt put the bowl of mac and cheese in front of me...Lets just say she was mad at me for a huge "stain" on her carpet that day.Third house was a cool place to live at mostly because my cousins lived in that neighborhood too. It was cool and didn't have any problems in there. I really don'r remember much but I do remember this one time this bird just came in the house and started flapping behind the couch, that's about it.

Let me get started with siblings. Most of us have them. So I have two sisters, one of them just turned 8 and the other one is about to turn 14. I am the oldest. So the youngest one , shes pretty cool but I have to constantly remind my self that I probably shouldn't be arguing with here since I'm the oldest. That what my mom says anyway. I go to the bus stop and pick her up on school days, and on the way home she tells me what she did at school. It's pretty fun around her although I think I may be to dumb sometimes. Like there's this game that we play called the blind game, which isn't the safest thing in the world but, meh. Basically coming home from her bus stop I close my eyes and let her lead, I'm not aloud to open my eyes because that's the whole point. She likes to dance and go outside, but the one thing we can do is just sit and watch T.V. Not the most active thing to do but we still do it. Then there's my other sister, we crash more often in the way of arguments, probably because she closer to my age and stuff like that. When we were younger we would play a lot with toys and what not. But now she's just on her phone which can get annoying sometimes. I don't know if it should bother me, it shouldn't. My mom gets mad at me whenever I start complaining. Shes like that fat kid at parties who already got his slice of pizza but keeps on going back for another and another and another. That was a good comparison. But what actually bothers me is what she might be posting on her Instagram or what ever. Call me nosy but I don't want her posting things she shouldn't. Teen girls these days posting all these pictures that if the parents saw them ( most of them don't) they would flip. She was not smart one day and left her account on the laptop. Of course I went through it because i'm kind of a horrible person. She had all this stuff that was stupid and stupid faces. Well about a month later her Ipod got stolen at school. Kind of felt happy (once again, horrible person) but then when I saw her getting scolded at and herself being all depressed I kind of felt bad. That's what sucks, whenever its my siblings getting scolded and not me because I told on them I feel kind of bad.

So my name. Not the most unique name out there but that's what was given to me by my parents. I've actually told my parents why they gave me that name, its so common, and I honestly think it's not that much of a cool name in my opinion. Then again it's just a name. I kind of would of preferred if people started calling me Chris maybe, but that's to late, Christian is what everyone has called me, and I have accepted it. My last name is the one that gives people trouble. The double L in Spanish makes like Y sound. Like Castiyo but it's actually spelled Castillo. I don't mind people saying my last name as it seems in English but the pronunciation of my last name that makes me not mad but like confused is this one, Castillio. That's it Castillio, I don't get why they do that, they add another I in my last name for some reason. I think maybe because they're reading it to lazy and they think the other L in my last name might be and I, I don't know but that's what happens. I've told my mom several times that why do people keep on using repetitive names. Is there like some law that says you can't name your kids whatever? Probably not. I play video games and to me there are a lot of cool video game character names out there. Like from the legend of Zelda series there's Zelda which actually Robin Williams named his daughter Zelda. Also another cool name in that series is Link in my opinion. But I think it's mostly the mothers fault a child couldn't possibly get a cool name. Maybe the father is a gamer and wants to name their newborn daughter Zelda but the mom who just gave birth to her Is like no that's a weird name and just gives her a common name.

Not sure if this section is referring to actually laughing or something else. But since the title is laughter i'm just going to go with it. There was some laughing in that section so I guess i'm good to go. My sisters and I, sometimes it can be great, but also sometimes it can get chaotic. With my 14 year old sister people don't really say we look alike. Mostly because her skin is lighter than mines and she has freckles. Sometimes I joke with my mom that there was probably a mix up at the hospital with the babies and that my sister was supposed to be some white parents kid. But my mom explained to me that my grandmother has freckles too and her skin is light. We laugh at things like people getting hurt on TV and fails and what not. Now it may sound messed up but when you're watching top 20 funniest on TV, and you see a women fall from the ceiling in a musical, you just can't help not laughing. On the other hand with my little sister it's slightly more impractical. She's 8 and she laughs with me all the time. I act like a fool at home, like really weird. I may not be loud and talkative at school but when I get home...I go crazy, I'm talking a lot saying stupid stuff, doing stupid stuff making my sister laugh. It's awesome. She's starts laughing so hard to the point she starts choking, and my mom has to step in and tells me to stop. I laugh to with them and it can get pretty weird. My laugh can be very different depending on what i'm laughing at. Basically when I laugh it's a loud, some what obnoxious laugh. But this is at home, I don't laugh like that at school because nothing is really that funny to get to that laughing point, and I really don't want to scare anyone with my laugh.

Wow this short story is all over the place. Not really sure what i'm supposed to type about. It really is all over the place, i guess i'll just type about each different thing said about him. So the nick name part. There are a lot of nick names in my family, not even exaggerating. For example whenever my mom or dad are having a conversation with one of their family members doesn't matter who they are.They always address them by some nick name that they have been called all their life. My dads first name is Luis, his middle name is Bolivar, but people don't call him Luis they call him "Boli". My moms name is Erika but some people call her "Kika". I don't know why this goes on. Now about Memes dog. Has a name in Spanish and in English. I can kinda relate to that. I have a chihuahua, her name is Wachita or how my mom says its's correctly spelled " Guachita". When we got her we didn't know what to name her I had some ideas but my sister was the one that had all these ideas for names, like Rose, Sweety, a bunch of that pinkish girly stuff. I honestly didn't like those names. Then my mom said "Wachita". At first me and my sister looked at each other like what the heck. My mom said it can be a temporary name until we come up with one, but as time went on we never gave her another name and our dog started getting used to that name. So when we go to the vet and they ask what's her name, they struggle a bit. Oh and by the way "Guachita" in Spanish means like little girl or a term used in some part of mexico to call a girl.

Cousins are awesome in my opinion, well not all of them. I have two sisters and no brothers, which kind of sucks but oh well. So whenever we go visit my cousins because of a party or that my mom has to drop us off there for some reason it's really cool. We play video games and compete among each other. Which sometimes is kind of unfair because I am kind of way older that they are, they are about 8-12 years old and I'm about to turn 16 this year. So sometimes I take it easy on them. But if we play outside they totally dominate me with all that physical activity, two of them are really good soccer players and are really fast and have skills. I can barely catch up to them mostly because I barely go outside. My mom says it's funny how it looks when we walk in and all the little kids in front and some 15 year old behind them. Although I do have a cousin that is only one year ahead of me, we don't talk much anymore. I still remember back when I was like younger and so was he that we would play all kinds of stuff to have fun. We used to play with his toy cars and it was lots of fun. Is lots even a word? The red sharp line didn't pop up so I am guessing it is. I remember in their old house they used to have a room in their basement which was so cool because it had an X-BOX in there and it was like their video game room, although I sucked at the games I still enjoyed playing them. Then we started getting older and we didn't visit as much. I remember he used to be on his laptop all the time but I thought that was stupid. Well now that my mom had bought us a laptop I was amazed by how cool t he internet was. My mom didn't want to get it because she said there was no need for it, she was way wrong. Oh and by the way currently I have no WiFi at my house which sucks but hopefully we'll get it back soon. Its been about two months now since WiFi. In the end its really cool to hang out with all of them but when you start seeing them almost everyday it gets old and that's why its good for them to visit every once in a while

Well Marin is one of those " I want to be a star" types of people. I don't really get why people think that it's going to be them that gets that lucky shot. But then again I shouldn't be judging her, because who wouldn't mind to get a shot at being "famous" or to have a job you really enjoy. I can compare Marin to my little sister. She watches this show called dance moms, and she says she wants to be up there with them. So whenever she puts the show on TV she just begins dancing with them with their special dance routine or something like that. I guess even me a little. I have a channel on YouTube and I've attempted to get a lot of subscribers. I have 55 right now but since I really haven't ever been able to upload any videos that's why I haven't gained any subscribers lately. And i guess we all have a bit of Marin inside of us, I mean I wouldn't mind becoming big on YouTube, mostly because that is one job I really want to get while I'm in school and studying. Even people at this school are like Marin, but they take it to far. Another thing that aggravates me like the fat kid who keeps on taking pizza slices. For some reason it bothers me to see other people get all serious on being famous. My mom thinks I need help and has told me if I need some type of counselor or something like that. Especially my A-2 class it is full of girls talking about being famous. A boy who talks about his mom taking him to this studio to record a song and upload it to YouTube. I want to tell him" WE DON'T NEED ANOTHER JUSTIN BIEBER". But that would be rude to say so I just shut up. Or even TV shows where the kids try to become the winners of this singing show. Some of them when they talk they act all stuck up which makes me just want to tell them to get off the stage. My mom tells me to just chill out and to go do something else before she gets mad. There are a lot of singers out there who I don't necessarily appreciate their music. Like i'm listening to the lyrics and i'm just like "what the heck does that mean". For example Nikki MInaj, she says she raps. And in most raps the words rhyme. Her words do rhyme but shes rhyming ONE word over and over again. She rhymed "God" with "God" and she kept on doing that for like seven lines.

To many children. Wondering why they had so many in the first place but then thinking who am I to judge their decision. It's a stereotype that Hispanics have a lot of children. And I guess it's kind of true. Mostly in older generations like my grandparents generation. My grandma had like eight kids. That is a lot of kids. And my other grandma had 8 as well. What I have heard of what people say is that they are to dumb to put a condom on or that they can't afford condoms. But maybe they might be religious , maybe. It's a sin to were a condom apparently, didn't know that. My mom fortunately went through I guess a better path. She only had three kids. My two sisters and me. But still even without having a whole lot of kids she still gets stressed out sometimes and I guess that is natural. Sometimes I just won't shut up and I guess it can get annoying. And teenagers aren't they type of humans that want to shut up, my sister is fourteen and isn't any better than me. We tend to clash a lot and begin to fight and my mom has to tell us both to shut up. And then they youngest of the three, she's eight, just jumps into battle with us. She can be more annoying because she wants more attention from my mom. And I get in trouble when I start arguing with her because my mom says that " Your the oldest you shouldn't be fighting with them". That doesn't mean she can do whatever she wants. The other day I said something that bugged her and she started screaming like crazy. Oh and she can fake crying and sad very easily. Maybe most little kids can do that but I just know my little sister can.

Oh that box. Box as I call it. Continuing in that circular motion with everyone else not daring to step out of line and into a very different but awesome branch. This is a big problem I have right now. All over the place with that phrase up there, ha. Probably because i'm in "that age of life" or something like that. Or maybe i'm not like that. I think to myself, what to do when i'm older. Study and go to college. Eventually get out of there and work as a Doctor or a lawyer or something that everyone wants to be. My mom says only lazy people who don't want to do anything in life think like that. But no i'm not lazy, I'm just thinking a bit differently. If I had a penny for every time my mom has told me that, I'd be so rich. I'm guessing there are way more that think like me out there. And in a way i'm kind of scared of just doing thing "regularly". I fear that life is just going to be that simple. I have all these crazy ideas that I think of but my mom tells me to calm down. And I don't think shes trying to be evil or like to bother me but it's just that she was taught differently. She has a different philosophy. My dad is more understanding in this topic. He respects what I say, and at some point understands. The other day I was telling him about the jobs that my mom says would be good to study for and he told me " Christian you don't have to be what your mom tells you to be in life, you are yourself and you chose what you really want to do. What's the point of studying for this job if you're not going to enjoy it". That felt good hearing that, to know that i could actually do that. Of course this definitely doesn't mean i'll be some 30 year old jobless man( which is what my mom thinks is going to happen). But i have to prove her wrong, I don't know for sure what i'm going to do to that is going to be big, but I tell my mom, you'll see what I will do , I promise.

Can't really relate to this myself but I can with what I've seen my sisters do. It's kind of funny in a way how arguments arise. I was watching this cartoon show the other day, and the female character said " why don't you boys just hate each other in secret, like girls do". When we are together we can make my mom go nuts and I don't blame her. Here is how it usually goes. The smallest of the three is trying to explain something to my mom, something that she did at school or something else. Eventually my other sister gets annoyed and tells her to shut up or to hurry up. Mom tells my sister not to tell my other sister to shut up. Mia(smallest of three) continues with her story. Reyna(older than Mia but younger than me) continues to whine. Then I step in for some reason and tell Reyna to shut up, mom goes against me. Reyna won't shut up now, while Mia continues her story. It's tiring. Or the situation when my cousins come over for a sleep over or something and arguments brake loose. I'm just in my room playing my Nintendo Wii and wondering why they are arguing. Mom calls me down and tells me to tell them to settle down. I just tell my mom , they'll be over it in like five minutes and continue playing like nothing happened. I picked this picture because it reminds me of my sisters fighting. All up in there faces and what not. But I guess having no sibling rivalry would be kind of boring. I would imagine everything all sweet, but to much sweetness can get you sick. In the end we know we don't mean what bad stuff we say to each other, we just say it because we're mad and all worked up.

Oh lunch at school, something that will probably always keep its trade mark. Everyone complaining on how the food isn't good. Well what did you expect , it's school. Their not going to spend a whole lot of money on feeding us better. Lunch in elementary school was interesting. Any one who brought lunch from school was like awesome. They had all the cool good food that their mommy put in. All these sweets and sugary drinks, and then they as how childhood obesity happens. I had some strange events happen in lunch in elementary. Like the fact that I embarrassed my self so bad that it increased my shy levels to over 9000("over 9000 is a famous Anime quote, look it up"). For some stupid reason back when I was like in 1st grade I got up in lunch and screamed that I loved this girl. Everyone stopped.No one talked, No body moved. There I was, a first grader standing up with the whole lunchroom staring at me. And I stood like a deer on headlights. NO IDEA WHY THE HECK I DID THAT. But fortunately we moved the next year so I was out of that school. Third grade in the new elementary school. I got in the nacho line because there was nachos that day. And of course it was long, even now it's long when ever there is nachos at Massaponax. After the eternity I waited to get my nachos I went and sat down. Enjoying my well deserved nachos when all of the sudden, I began to choke on a nacho. I guess I didn't chew enough because there I was with a nacho chip stuck somewhere in my throat . Spoiler alert I don't die. There's no need to fear, very smart lunch lady is here. She came up to me running and asked the smartest question anyone could of asked in that situation, sarcasm. " Are you choking?". I thought to my self "No lady i'm not choking , I'm just dancing in my seat". Oh and did I mention in middle school I had the Sloppy Joe with beans, Had Gym after lunch. We were just sitting there listening to instructions, and then I farted. It echoed of course all over the gym and everyone started laughing. My mom says I should of laughed too and pretended like it wasn't me. But no I just sat there and cried like an Idiot. There you go Mrs. Hodgins now you know one of my most embarrassing moments in life.

This was a weird chapter. So celebrations, not something I am very enthusiastic about. I just don't enjoy being at like a part with a bunch of people there, even if they are family members. I prefer just staying at home, but my mom doesn't let me. You could say I'm kind of socially awkward. So my sisters church thing (forgot what it's called) this Saturday. And I was already all mad and stuff because my mom made us prepare all the stuff they day before and I was just done, I wanted nothing to do with that party anymore. But of course that wasn't going to happen, My mom was in like an outrage mode. I wanted to hang out with my cousins on the front porch but that wasn't going to happen. There I was all day and night picking up cans of soda, and pieces of pizza that were all over the floor. I wanted to play video games with my cousins in my room but my mom wouldn't let me. I cleaned all day for her but still she wouldn't let me, it didn't seem fair. Parties are just bad news for me and I don't enjoy them. That's why I stopped having birthday parties after I turned 8. My mom I guess could of forced me to have birthday parties, but it was way cheaper for her to just buy me a thirty six dollar video game so she just didn't say anything. My dad was very surprised when we went to buy my Nintendo 3ds for my birthday last year. He said "170 dollars for this thing!?". So I had to remind them that they got my sister and I pod that costed like 300 or something dollars. Whenever we go to one of my moms friends parties ( that sentence is very incorrect), I just try to avoid everyone. Its like completely different and I feel all uncomfortable. They're blasting music, and oh its a two year old party yet you got bear bottles laying everywhere. Face-palm. I mean seriously people the baby is asleep , the party was just an excuse to get drunk for them. We left early after my mom saw the face expression on all three of us. Not to mention they live in like the hood and some man got shot and buried there last week. Its just madness.

Let me just point out that catholic school seems worse than regular school. It must suck to go there. My opinion anyway. Mom's been bugging here more often now to get a job or to ask a friend if they could get me a job. It get's tiring to hear her constantly telling me this. I don't blame her, she's supposed to tell me this stuff, I think. And whenever I get home I feel this huge boulder on my back of pressure from her. I get home say hi and sit down. There I can feel her thinking " why isn't he working yet". I get her mad easily now, and I can assure you 99.9% of the time she's just gets mad because she wants me to get a job. Every time the house bills come in the mail she's just saying stuff like, seems like i'm going to need to get a second job because you don't want to work. And I'm just there thinking to myself " here we go again". They say that why do I not pay attention to them, I do only that whatever they are going to say I have already created that scenario in my mind. And no it's not that stupid thing that all adults thing kids my age have, " oh at that age they think they know everything, they think they are the smartest of them all". Get's me mad when I hear that stuff. So I have a cousin and he's 17. He has a job, a car and get's excellent grades ( AP classes. So you can see where I'm going with this. Talk about comparison, I thought parents were supposed to be all smart with what they say and stuff like that, and not constantly tell your kid about how their cousin is striving and that they're not. My mom thinks i'm going to be some adult playing video games all his life. Wow thanks mom, that really boost my confidence up. Anyway I kinda of just block what she says now because it's literally the same thing over and over. " Comes in one ear, and goes out the other" is what she says, more like "comes in one ear through a broken record".

I can't really tell what it's like to lose someone you knew, in the way that they died. But I know it's eventually going to happen, that's just the way life is. And it's best to not think of it that much. My mom has told me before to never do that, sure pain is felt when someone that you knew died but never say " why, why". My mom tells me it's what God wanted, and that we should not question his decisions. I agree with her but sometimes I find myself making questions that I shouldn't make. My Uncle died a few years back, and I remember my mom getting that call and then the tears just began to come out of her eyes. So then she explained to us. My sister began to cry to but there I was, not sad but more of feeling bad. Feeling bad that I didn't really remember that Uncle. And death is something that is not that easy to understand when you're young. But for that same reason it's harder to understand things. I've caught myself in moments where making fun of people and of course I wasn't thinking. But it's really messed up to do it, and unfortunately you see that happen more in middle and elementary schools. But do you get mad at those kids, or do you understand that they are still young. One of the most messed up things that are at school is the making fun of special-ed students. It's been going on through out all school, even now I still see some idiots say dumb comments to them. I remember back in elementary school what all the kids would say to them. Like " don't touch me" or "stupid". All this stuff is just messed up. Event with me a little that making fun of was put to practice. I have this thing called eczema dermatitis ( I think that's whats its called). And the rashes on my hand used to be very noticeable, so of course I heard this for a long time " is that poison ivy eww, don't touch me .

Had no idea people did that, write "shrugs" in their books. Its funny to me in a way. So all this witch stuff is weird and I can't really understand it. Many people believe in this type of stuff but i'm not so sure to believe it. With the stars aligned to the magical cards that read your future its just plain weird. And I can see this everyday now. I'm not sure if it's just Hispanics TV shows but on TV these witches have their own segment on one of those morning shows. And i'm pretty sure there are people out there that are seriously against this type of stuff. On another topic of witches don't you think it' stupid that there are still people today killing people just because they think they are witches. Like seriously there are so many games out there that have some type of magic thing and people who oppose that freak out. To the point that they have tried to eliminate these type of books and games in some areas. It's just plain stupid, Marin reminds me of this character on this show called Gravity Falls. The characters name is Mabel and she is very much like Marin. She meets a new boy every day and thinks she's in love. One day she thought she found a boy friend but it turns out in the end that it was just a bunch of gnomes stacked on each other wearing clothes to cover up. That was hilarious. Then the gnomes wanted to get married with Mabel but she said no, so the gnomes assembled into this huge monster and chased Mabel. There was this one scene where Mabel gave a not to a guy and the note said " Do you like me". Then it had three check boxes that said " Yes","Super Yes", and "DEFINITELY YES". She told her brother " ha, I rigged it". That was hilarious. Did I mention she's only twelve. There are a lot of cartoon characters like that now a days but Mabel is the only one who comes to mind. Marin is probably just young and can't really know what she feels, I guess.

Earl what are you doing down there. It seems super suspicious on what might be happening in that basement. I seriously thought he was like some type of drug dealer. Or that maybe he made the drugs down in his basement. I have two neighbors that are kind of weird in a suspicious way. So there's this house next to ours and the guy there isn't necessarily the nicest guy. But forget that, it used to be filled with cars in his yard 24/7. Day and night cars coming in and out. I even got to hear one of their conversations once when I was walking home from school they were like " hey how are you, how has your GRANDPA been", " oh my GRANDPA is good, he's here right now to visit him". I was just there like in my head " you guys suck at trying to not be suspicious". Then I guess someone spoke and the cops had been monitoring our street for a couple of months. So i guess he had to stay on the low , so cars stopped coming . The other suspicious neighbor lives in front of us. This is more of me being nosy. But there I am at like 1 AM in the morning watching TV and I look out my window and those guys are still working out in there HUGE shed. What the heck are they doing down there, building some kind of robot to take over the world or what? I don't know. But maybe nothing is going on, I know that I don't like having sunlight going through my room. It's true. The curtain in my room is closed good so not a lot of light gets in, I asked my mom if she could get me dark curtains for my room, she said no. The other day I was at home by my self, my mom usually leaves the blinds up and curtains to the side , but once she left I Closed the blinds and curtains. I just like it like that.Are you a vampire of some sort? I just don't like the light, well a lot of light to be more specific. I've walked outside on a really sunny day and say out loud " ugh sun why are you out here". My mom tells me to not say that. I prefer cloudy days then sunny days. Whenever I hear on TV that its not going to be pretty outside because it going to rain and be cloudy, I say why does rain not may it look pretty, whats wrong with clouds?. Without rain grass wouldn't grow and stuff like that. Weather people should keep their comments to themselves and just report the facts not whether they think its going to look nice or not.

Eggs and ham. That's what I make when my mom isn't home on Saturdays. So there's this comedy Hispanic movie of this lady who goes to the United states and it's funny because she only knows one thing to say for food, " coffee and donuts". So through out her whole journey when she wanted to eat she would say coffee and donuts. One time she wanted to order a hamburger, but she struggled and eventually just said coffee and donuts. I imagine a fat flamingo about to tip over when I think about that women. But I feel kind of bad for her because she reminds me about my grandma. Whenever my grandma comes to visit us from Mexico she gets depressed. Shes just there sometimes in her room, alone, crying because she wants to go back earlier than usual. But she doesn't show us because she doesn't want to make us sad. So for her to not feel alone we hang out with her, sometimes just even watch TV with her. My mom has told us to help when we can. If someone is having trouble explaining themselves to go and translate. And my sister and me do that. And it feels good to help. Sometimes people take advantage of this and do stuff they shouldn't. But you see it in the world still today. When one of my uncles asked me to translate and I couldn't he would go on and start complaining that I know English and how can I not translate. Did I mention I was just in second grade and he was wanting me to translate some long document. When I watch a movie with my family, we watch it in Spanish. If it has no Spanish audio then we put the subtitles on, which kind of bothers me. Sure I could be enjoying the movie by just listening to it, but the subtitles bother me so I just begin to read them. I have no idea why. My dad was about to fall asleep one day so he said to put the movie in English if we wanted to, but all three of us said no. He was confused, he said why do you guys want it in Spanish when you can just see it in English? We said that we got used to listening to movies in our house in spanish, it seem weird to see them in english when my mom and dad were there. I don't know why.

I am no one to judge other people for their actions and decisions. My mom has repeated that to me like a million times. She says don't judge because that stuff might happen to you. And that kind of gets me thinking, but she right. I don't know what's up with today's generation of teenagers that life decisions that they make are plain stupid. I'm not really sure how it was before but I do have a pretty good understanding on how this generation is working out, since I'm living in this generation. I ask why teens get pregnant at such an early age. There is a teenager in my neighborhood that is pregnant, shes only thirteen. How can this happen? Did they not think what was going to happen after she got pregnant. " Oh i'm going to work and study and take care of the baby, then we going to buy a house and live a happy life because we love each other". I'm not in that situation but I have heard stories and have some relatives that have told me their life. It's a huge struggle, and I can understand why. They have something to take care of and it's not that easy. I think teens these days aren't educated that much in this and need to be taught more in schools , and also their parents need to be more serious about it. It's true the school has had programs in the past to try to educate the students on this type of stuff, but it doesn't seem to be enough. I think it would be kind of a good idea to bring in guest speakers. People that have been through that situation and let the teens know that it is actually a huge struggle. Not everything just works out as they think it will. And whats up with these guys who leave their wife because they are too scared to go on with life with them. That seems like a really coward thing to do, it's not right. Man enough to get her pregnant, then you should be man enough to take care of her and her child. Of course i'm not saying that the guy should be the only one to work, but while the baby is still inside her she should not work for the baby's own good.

Sally got into one of those marriages that just should of never happened. But in what way are they that they should of never happened? Was her destiny to have such marriage? It was her own choice that led her there attempting to escape I guess the look of mango street. And all that stress made her not think right. When someone gets married I assume they have to be very sure that they love this person. That this is the person they want to spend the rest of their lives with. But making such decision can be worrying I guess. What if this doesn't work out, what if we get divorced. And I can imagine it can be scary. Not to mention that about fifty percent of marriages in the united states fail and lead to divorce. Which would explain why there are so many kids out there with step moms or step dads. It's like it kind of become part of the culture, which sucks to be honest. And kids take it like if it was something normal, " yeah I have a step dad" " my step mom is so cool !". I'm just there like in my head " seriously guys this doesn't bother you one bit?". I wouldn't like it if my parents got divorced, but I think kids take it normally because their parents got divorced when they were like toddlers. I have an uncle, who really isn't on track in life I would say. He used to live with us with his wife but things between those two were never right. He'd come home late and begin to yell at her and through stuff at each other. My dad ended up kicking them out of the house because of their fighting. Oh and did I mention that they have three kids. And now they went their separate ways and now have new partners. Oh wait they fight with their new partners too! These people need help from like a counselor or something.

I guess if you live in that situation you want to get out of mango street. I have had discussions with my parents ( mostly my mom) on where I'm going to live when I'm older. I've heard teens say that their parents say once they turn eighteen they are kicking them out. One of my friends said that his mom told him for his eighteenth birthday she would have his bags ready with all his stuff and say " happy birthday, now leave". I have two thoughts in my head to what I want to do, but It's hard to chose between the two of them. My mom has this idea of when I go to college I am going to go live in one of those dorms. Don't get me wrong having like a dorm room sounds cool but what would be the point if I could be at home. Unless for some reason I go somewhere not close to my parents house. My mom says I should of investigated on which college I want to go to, and shes right I should be investigating. But the thought of leaving my parents house is kind of scary in a way. Pretty sure my sister is going to want to leave the house just because of her personality, but I have the Idea of working and studying so I can help my parents out. Time goes by really fast, its not fair. One day you're sitting with your sister watching Spongebob Squarepants on Saturday mornings, then BOOM you're all grown up. I wish humans lived for up to 1000 years, so we would grow slower. The other idea in my head is more independent. I would like to have like a small house to where i'm going to college and have like all my stuff in there. All my video games in my living room, a computer room, with the fridge filled with food. There's this house in my neighborhood which is right next to my bus stop that I would like to have. It's small but simple, unfortunately two people live in there.