Personal Narrative: August Newsletter

It started as typical Tuesday with a couple of court hearings, maybe an arrest, but nothing to exciting. That all changed at dawn.

Week one has passed by quickly! I think this week was very successful and I can say that I have learned many new things. This week has been an experience for me learning things about the business world. I am not a business major so I was not expecting to take these classes. I was assigned them, but have found them very beneficial. As I read through the first couple of chapters I read things I had heard before. This was a good thing that I could put the information with the terms I had heard previously.

August 15th was so memorable for me because it was the day I gave my daughter up for adoption. It was one long and hard process for me to go through, but I knew it was for the best. I needed someone who could give my child the stability and maturity that I knew I couldn't provide at the time. It took me a few weeks, but out of the 5 couples I interviewed, I finally decided to go with a couple named Glen and Lisa to be the proud parents of my baby girl. They had been trying to concieve for the last 8 and a half years, but none of the available treatments seemed to work for them. I chose Glen and Lisa because they had this upbeat energy about them. They were always smiling and being positive, even when the worse situations occured. They were also very well respected throughout their community, and didn't hesitate to help out at shelters, donate anything and everything they could get their hands on, and even volunteer at the community center after school to help kids with their studies. They are inspirational people if

Delano then pulled a gun from his ankle holster and places it on the table top. --

My spring project was at YMCA. At the YMCA, I was doing different physical activities with children and adults. The first activity that my team and I did was parachute. I have never play parachute and it was very new to me. When the event start, my team and I started to play with parachute by ourselves so we can get used to it and thinking different ways to use the parachute for the children to have fun. At first, there were not many children coming around, so my team and I advertised it by playing around with it and smiling which led children to be interested in the activity. The parachute activity went really well. Adults were able to participate with their children in the activity and they were having fun and enjoying themselves. Another

“Five more minutes,” I respond, while rubbing my eyes, then rolling onto the “cool side” of the bed.

The summer of 2016 was one of the best summer yet but stressful. As I was getting ready to be a senior at high school and deal with college applications, I was also preparing myself for the world I would face after. The world that I soon enough was going to experience, but yet wasn’t ready for. In order for me to learn about it is to get myself out there through programs, internships and work. I received an internship through my Biotech academy where I was placed in Berkeley Dog and Cat hospital. Then I found out about a program called Genesys Works which teaches professionalism and IT skills, so I sign up for it and decided to part take in both. But, I also wanted to have fun, take a break and travel during my summer so I decided to take a

Before this trip I had never been on a plane, never been able to see glowing cities, rigid snow capped mountains, crystal clear blue lakes, and rivers so vivid, even from above through the clouds at 39,000 feet in the air. While I was stuffing my suitcase trying not to go past the weight limit, and planning what I memories I wanted to make I never thought an entire day would be my fondest memory of the entire trip, let alone my fondest memory of the year. Out of the 365 days of the year and 5,844 days I have lived I have never loved a day more than this one.

I went to the University of Southern California, to study electrical engineering. And after graduation I took a job with an automotive company in Dearborn, Michigan. There a co-worker friend of mine invited me to an Assembly of God church.

Awakened when AV said “Everybody ready?” to the jv group chat, I knew that I wasn’t prepared for what the day had in store me. As we walked into the jv locker room after what was a short drive in Stratford, Texas, we knew that coach had high expectations. After getting all geared up we heard the words that I dreaded “Alright let’s head that way!”, said coach Lovorn. During warm ups the thought of getting hit by upperclassmen was the only thing that crossed my mind. They had once been in my place and taken big hits from upperclassmen before. It was certain that they were looking to do the same thing to us freshmen. After warm ups concluded, it was time for individual offense. The linemen went to the chutes to work on our footwork. Following

Hey, Tonya, how are you? I hope everything is good and well with you and your family. I have to tell you what happened to me this past week. Every day this week, I have been going to the yoga studio. Now, you know I am not flexible at all, but I gave yoga a chance to become better at meditating. When the instructor advised us we should touch our hands behind our backs and raise our arms, can you believe I was jumping up and down trying to touch my hands? It was such a scene; I kept jumping and saying ouch! Now was that funny or what? Talk to you later!

I never knew it was physically possible to feel the hand of God, but Steubenville Youth Conferences changed that for me. It was an experience like no other and has forever changed the way I look at life.

Later I joined a group of ex-believers, all pastors, rabbis and religious leaders in general. That was awesome!

Arpatech: You were an attendee of Magento Imagine 2015. In your opinion, what are the advantages of attending the Magento conferences like Magento Imagine, Meet Magento, Mage Titans for amateurs who want to involve

Intro: I had a great time in the DR as I said it was my first mission’s trip and went with my church from back home, many people that I love and care for deeply. In fact, my mentor was there, a pastor who I have known over these past six years who mentored and discipled me. It was a great time of ministry, we did a lot of evangelism and it was a great time of ministry for us there in the DR. When we first began ministry in the cities and villages they would not allow us to come in and now because of our relationships and what we have done for them, they not only allow us to come in, but we can sit down and share the gospel with them. They are very open and receptive and now they have planted a church in one of the villages and there is a pastor. Even though it is small they said since the church had been planted there was many changes within the villagers, people are nicer, people help them out. You can see the impact that 's been done since we started ministry there 3 years ago. So we praise God for that.