I wake up at 6 am. Then I go take a shower, get dressed, and then my cousin’s mom picks me up at 7 am to take me to school. When I reach my school, I talk to my friends and socialize until 7:45 am, when I go to my first class. School is over by now. School is okay. I like it because my friends are there. If they weren’t there, then I would hate school. My friends make me laugh and giggle so I could enjoy the school day. It’s going to suck next year because they are going to graduate this year. I will try to enjoy it but it will be hard. When school is over, I usually go to  Somerville, depending on what day it is.

In Somerville, I do different projects that help the immigrant community. For example, I was making a video with two other people. The video was about how the people really see the issue of immigrant students going to college. The media portrayed it differently than other people saw it. The media says  that  immigrants don’t want an education. All we hear in the news is how they don’t care about school and their education. That’s where they’re wrong. The people we interviewed said, “We do care about our education. We do want to go to college but there are barriers that hold us back from reaching that goal.”

We interviewed people like a mother, a college professor, and a student. We asked questions like how much they pay to get into college, and the struggles they face. Professor Cohen said that if you were a citizen, then you would pay regular price for college tuition. If you were not a citizen, then you would pay more money. He also talked about how the problems the immigrants are facing now are the same problems immigrants were facing back then. If the people had more money, their kids would have a better education. Johna, a student, talked about more positive interactions between teachers and students. Consuelo, a mother, talked about how more parents should get involved with the schools.

 We never got to finish the video because we had to move to a different location. I’m kind of happy that we stopped because it was hard to do. But then again, if we did finish, we could’ve sold copies of it to people who wanted to see the video and we could’ve made money out of it.

 One good thing that came out of it was that we learned how to use the Final Cut Express program. Now, whenever I have a video project, I know how to put together a video.

 When I’m done with working in Somerville, I go home.

 At home, I talk to my parents in Spanish. In my house, I mostly talk in English because there are only two people in my house that don’t really speak English and there are at least five people in my house that do speak English.

 When I get home, I either do homework, if I have any, or I play the piano. I have been playing the piano for almost a y ear. I started the summer of ’08. My sister-in-law teaches me how to play it. I can’t read music yet, but she plays the song for me and I try to remember it so I could play it. Hopefully, I will learn how to read music so I don’t have to depend on my sister-in-law that much.

 After I do that, I get hungry so I go get food to feed my stomach. After my stomach is full, I go watch more television so I can let the food digest. When the food is digested, I go to sleep like at 11 pm. When I wake up in the morning, I do the same routine.