Aylin's Blog

                  The first person I had a close conversation with was Cole Jenschke from Angelo State.    I know him pretty well and we had a great conversation about college life.    We talked about everything, school work, sports, and how we are going to prepare for finals.    We first started talking about how I am running track and how that is going.    I am in the four by one and we are advancing to the finals before nationals and have broken the school record two times.    Then we talked about him and his friends winning the intermural basketball championship. He was saying how the other team was much bigger than them but did not play as a team like Cole and his friends.    I was really happy for him because there were a lot of people and teams that played in the same league.    He said that they were the underdogs and that no one thought they would even hav...

                I would like to start out this essay by saying that my two people that I interviewed would like to stay anonymous, so I will not be using names.   They insisted on remaining anonymous and I am going to respect their privacy, so I can share their story.   I did not know either of these two people very well, but I feel that I really understand what they went through now that I have talked to them.   I learned a lot indeed about mental illness and how it affects two different people in two different ways.   Here are their stories.                 Both of these people were and are affected by Post Dramatic Stress Disorder or PTSD.   Both have this same mental illness but suffered in different ways.   Person A was in the war in Iraq and was in many gun fights which has made him hard of hearin...

        I grew up only speaking one language, Spanish.   It was the only language I was taught at a young age.   The only English that I was exposed to at the point in my life before public education was my two older cousins that had already begun school.   This is where I learned some basic words like water, run, play, food, candy, and soda.   When I was three I attended a head start program where I formally began to learn English.   This is where I had teachers to help me extend my English vocabulary.   It was very hard at first, but as little kids seem to do I picked it up very fast.   I would come home and show my parents what I had learned, and they would help me by speaking English as well.   This benefited me greatly and I soon became bilingual.            At the end of Head Start, before I could go to kindergarten, I had to take this test that would show that I was indeed bilingual and...