Based on the quote from this week I can sort of relate. I am very stressed about the upcoming semester and the work load. Not only is the work load difficult as is but I feel like all of the classes are piling up. At home my son is testing me and I find that the more I talk the more he yells. The less I talk the more he has the opportunity to explain what/how he is feeling. I am very stressed but I am trying to not be so pushy and rush him.
It will be a tough ride but I hope to finish my BA without any problems or push backs. I think next semester I will have to take less classes but I will talk to Jamie about that soon.=]
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Saturday, September 15, 2012
This week we are supposed to get into something more personal. I can't think about anything more personal than what I have already put out in the open...I'm an open book really lol.
So I will write about an experience I went through this week after work while coming home from picking my son up at day care. It put a spin on things I though wouldn't matter and didn't matter until that day.
If any one googles Salinas,ca they will get probably a million hits on gang violence in the last 4-5 years. We have been featured on shows like "Gang Land" and President Obama mentioned the city at one of his public addresses.
There are NUMEROUS shootings and most involve gangs or are gang related. I moved to Salinas in 2007 ,besides living here off an on in my childhood. My mom and I moved from my dads house and we got an apartment in the "nice"side of Salinas, the south side.When I was pregnant with my son in 2009 the shootings were RIDICULOUS, 29 in a year. There was one week where I remember 5 in one day. Not only were they happening on the "bad" side of town but on our peaceful block.
Usually I don't pay attention to the everyday news broadcast that someone was shot...AGAIN. I think it doesn't effect me because I'm not a gang member and I don't affiliate with anyone who is.
Wednesday I was driving down the BUSIEST BUSIEST street in the city at 6pm, which is when everyone is driving home from work. I'm talking with my son and notice a man laying on the sidewalk right in front of the salvation army and think to myself, 'dang a homeless guy is passed out! Why isn't anyone there?' which isn't unlikely. I then notice his clothes are VERY CLEAN! A black tee, dark jeans, and white tennies. I slow down but wonder why NOBODY else is on their brakes... they have to have seen someone laying there! Right? Ethan asks me "He's nigh-night?" At that exact moment I'm directly on the side of this man and he is laying on his side with blood on the sidewalk coming from his head and NOT one person is near him. I immediately sped up, not wanting my son to see him, and I called 911. Apparently I was one of the first callers to 911, other calls came through after I had started talking to the dispatcher. My house is about 2 blocks from this. I pulled into my driveway and told my boyfriend what had happened and the look on his face was blank.
It ends up that the man who was shot was a 22 year old and the suspect was walking behind him on the sidewalk for quite some time before he pulled out a gun and shot him in the back of the head and ran off.
My boyfriend and I had a talk and we are looking for new homes OUT of Salinas as well as my mom. We want to move back to our hometown Gonzales which is about 20 mins south of here.
So now looking at this situation I see how we can all be effected in direct and indirect ways and it shocks me.
I am still kind of shocked at the whole situation and wonder what is going wrong in this community that murders are going unsolved like they are, when they are happening in BROAD daylight and on a BUSY street right in front of the salvation army, that was busy?
So I will write about an experience I went through this week after work while coming home from picking my son up at day care. It put a spin on things I though wouldn't matter and didn't matter until that day.
If any one googles Salinas,ca they will get probably a million hits on gang violence in the last 4-5 years. We have been featured on shows like "Gang Land" and President Obama mentioned the city at one of his public addresses.
There are NUMEROUS shootings and most involve gangs or are gang related. I moved to Salinas in 2007 ,besides living here off an on in my childhood. My mom and I moved from my dads house and we got an apartment in the "nice"side of Salinas, the south side.When I was pregnant with my son in 2009 the shootings were RIDICULOUS, 29 in a year. There was one week where I remember 5 in one day. Not only were they happening on the "bad" side of town but on our peaceful block.
Usually I don't pay attention to the everyday news broadcast that someone was shot...AGAIN. I think it doesn't effect me because I'm not a gang member and I don't affiliate with anyone who is.
Wednesday I was driving down the BUSIEST BUSIEST street in the city at 6pm, which is when everyone is driving home from work. I'm talking with my son and notice a man laying on the sidewalk right in front of the salvation army and think to myself, 'dang a homeless guy is passed out! Why isn't anyone there?' which isn't unlikely. I then notice his clothes are VERY CLEAN! A black tee, dark jeans, and white tennies. I slow down but wonder why NOBODY else is on their brakes... they have to have seen someone laying there! Right? Ethan asks me "He's nigh-night?" At that exact moment I'm directly on the side of this man and he is laying on his side with blood on the sidewalk coming from his head and NOT one person is near him. I immediately sped up, not wanting my son to see him, and I called 911. Apparently I was one of the first callers to 911, other calls came through after I had started talking to the dispatcher. My house is about 2 blocks from this. I pulled into my driveway and told my boyfriend what had happened and the look on his face was blank.
It ends up that the man who was shot was a 22 year old and the suspect was walking behind him on the sidewalk for quite some time before he pulled out a gun and shot him in the back of the head and ran off.
My boyfriend and I had a talk and we are looking for new homes OUT of Salinas as well as my mom. We want to move back to our hometown Gonzales which is about 20 mins south of here.
So now looking at this situation I see how we can all be effected in direct and indirect ways and it shocks me.
I am still kind of shocked at the whole situation and wonder what is going wrong in this community that murders are going unsolved like they are, when they are happening in BROAD daylight and on a BUSY street right in front of the salvation army, that was busy?
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