My Family Of A Middle Class Family

Many people have interesting stories of where they come from. Some may find mine to be just that, and others may not. I was born to a middle class family in San Jose. My family has never been exceedingly wealthy, nor have we ever been poor. My parents were well educated, and have degrees to prove their education.My father has worked was a thermodynamic engineer for his entire post college career, and my mother never went to work in her field. One aspect of my family that begins to diversify us is that we are a family of Christians. My parents have always taken their faith seriously, and so it inspired me to do the same.

The faith that I have, and my parents’ example, have both had a large impact on who I am today.Both of these factors aided in choosing a school for me when we moved to the Antelope

Valley. I stayed with Desert Christian Schools from second grade up until I graduated high school. I enjoyed learning there because the school was an environment where everybody knew everybody, and I liked that because I got along with most students there. An aspect of Desert

Christian Schools that I miss is the daily Bible courses we took as a part of our curriculum. At times it felt like just another burden to add to my homework load, but as I look back I realize that

I felt as a part of a community in those classes.

I had other academic studies alongside Bible class. In a standard curriculum, I found myself liking mathematics and history, rather than any form of the arts.I did not hate music, and writing was tolerable, but I could not stand drawing. For most, it seems that when an assignment

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was given to draw something, it was an easy grade that did not require any effort.For me, drawing assignments meant long agonizing nights, con...

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...d offer the solution. A way to show what it means to follow Christ is to show kindness as often as I can, and a path to understand the struggles and joys of a culture can only make it easier to find ways to serve that group of people. This is why in the case of Mexican

American Studies, learning about immigration, language differences, and other problems facing

Mexican culture, will interest me. Mexican culture is seen throughout California, so application of the information I will gain will be possible regularly.

I am a simple person, who came from a simple background. I like to have fun, I learn, and have insecurities just like everyone else. I am not perfect by any standard. I mess things up, am awkward, and can sometimes be offensive. The only thing that sets me apart is that I follow

Christ. Everything that is good in me comes from Christ, weirdly as that sounds.