The name Celeste is the name given to me by my parents, mainly by my dad.  He was the one that thought of it.  He wanted to name me Soleil but preferred Celeste instead.  My dad liked the name Celeste because it was a unique name that he hadn’t really heard on any other person.  The definition of my name is Heavenly, and also known as a light blue.  When you say my name, it is pronounced Celeste and actually saying the last “e”.  I wasn’t named after anybody in my family; I have a unique name thanks to my dad.

My family has a lot of stories about me of when I was born.  They say I was a big child, and that because of me, my dad’s happiness became a crisis, especially because I was girl, and by that they met the boy problems and make up and all that good stuff.  In my family there are a total of 14 children including myself.  My mom had 5 girls and 9 boys.  I have 2 younger sisters who are named Chel-C and Tathiana, and one younger brother that’s named Joe, 1 older sister named Mercedes, and 8 older brothers named John, Tony, Edgard, Hugo, Jose, Paul, Michael, and Alex.  I am the fourth to last baby of the family, but the most spoiled of them all.  My parents are divorced and each has custody of 6 of my siblings, so since I live with my mom, I only get to see six of my siblings and I see the other seven every two weeks.  I actually do remember quiet a lot of things of when my little brothers and sisters were born.  What I remember the most, was when they each tried to walk, they all had a different way of starting.  My brother was the younger of my 2 younger sisters to start walking.  My two sisters were pretty lazy to walk; all they wanted was to be carried around everywhere.  I have actually spent a lot of time with my grandparents now in days.  Luckily for me both of my parent’s parents still live today.  My dad’s parents live back at home in Brazil where I am from so I only see them twice a year or when it’s possible, I really miss them a lot.  My mom’s parents live here in Oxnard.  My mom, sisters and I, live across the street from her parents, so I see them everyday 24 hours, 7 days a week.  I love my grandparents a lot.  My best memory of when I went to grandma’s house was when I got home from my soccer game.  I had just come home from my game and I was really tired, that I didn’t even eat.  My grandma saw me tired so she cooked me up my favorite food of all times form back home, Brazil.  She also had made me hot chocolate since it was freezing that day and just pampered me that whole day wouldn’t even let anyone make any noise just so I wouldn’t wake up because I was tired and had fallen asleep.

My family and I  are unique because we all love the same thing, and that thing is soccer.  To us soccer just isn’t a sport, but it also takes up a part of our lives.  Like how the saying goes, “We eat, sleep, and study soccer.”  My great grandpa, grandpa, aunt, and my dad have been or are pro soccer players for the Mexican league.   My dad plays in team for the Mexican team and so does my aunt, but for the Mexican women’s league.  Right now I’m the soccer player of the family.  I am 15 years old and I play for the schools team and an outside team.  I was offered a full  soccer scholarship to 4 different universities. I still haven’t made my choice of which to pick, since I’m only a sophomore right now.  Last year while I was playing in my outside team, I was scouted not just by any scouts, but by the Mexican Women’s League.  I was offered a full 12 year contract to play with either Mexico because I am part Mexican or with Brazil, since I am Brazilian Women’s selection team.  Hopefully one day I can become a professional soccer player and be a role model to other young girls. 

I have lived in many places.  The reason is because I am an army brat.  My dad and two of my brothers are in the army.  When my dad was stationed at different countries, we had to move with him.  I went to military school my whole life until last year my freshmen year.  The city I like best would be Oxnard, the reason being that I have met the most wonderful people ever.  One of those people is my girlfriend.  She has helped me out a lot in every situation possible.  She is great and I thank her for that.  The city or country I like least was probably Czech Republic.  The reason is because people over there aren’t nice.  They are all rude and mean and don’t really have many manners and there are always fights going on.  I’m glad I came here to the United States.

  My favorite hobby is soccer.  It’s more than just a sport, it’s practically my life.  I’ve played since I was six years old and still play at age fifteen.  Everybody in my family is star players from their teams and hopefully I’m seen as a star player myself as well.  I watch soccer everyday on television and practice with my team.  When I don’t have practices with them, I practice everyday for at least three hours.  If I could, I would play it 24 hours and 7 days a week. I like to go out with my girlfriend and our friends to dinner, bowling, or even the movies. It gets pretty fun because all of us are wild girls and its trouble when you have a group of wild girls hanging out together.  Our parents get pretty embarrassed when they take us places or go with us because we do crazy and daring things.  There was a time when my friends, my parents and I went to the mall.  Once we got there we all split up, but when we got together again, it wasn’t good news for my parents.  We were all caught by security guards because we were running al over the mall.  It was pretty funny to see my parent’s face.

    I play soccer as my sport.  What I like best about it is that it is a team sport and we work as a team.  The position I play is called a sweeper.  The sweeper is before the goalie but after the defense.  I am actually a pretty good player.  I got scholarships to play for universities.  I am on a team right now and my dad is the coach.  The name of the team is called California.   We did really well as a team, that we have been to the finals four years in a row, and hopefully go again this year.

The best part of school to me is that I get to hang out with my friends and see my girlfriend all day for four days a week, even though we hang out most weekends too.  What I dislike about school is all the homework we get.  I don’t mind sitting in classes all day, it’s just the homework.  I really do dislike the homework and worksheets.  In school, I participate in a couple of teams.  I am a volleyb all player, a soccer player, and a track runner, so I’m practicing all year long during fourth period and after school.  I don’t really belong to organizations because I don’t really have time to be present at meetings and stuff like that.   My favorite subject is science and biology.  The reason being that as my career I want to be a Crime Scene Investigator (CSI), and that career requires a lot of science.  I am actually pretty good in science.  The subject that gives me the most headaches would probably be English.  Now don’t get me wrong, I like English class, its just that all the terms you have to know and stuff, just aren’t for me.  I don’t really enjoy English, although Ms. Brickey or better known as Mrs. Otani is a really good and fun English teacher.  I have received a lot of awards for school as well as sports.  As a matter a fact I am the person in my family that holds the record for the most awards received since kindergarten.  I have relieved most of them for sports and grades and then for my attendance.  I plan on going to a four-year university and study forensic studies to be a CSI.  The college I had in mind was UCLA, but after researching their programs, they weren’t very big on sciences.  Hopefully I can get into the University of Phoenix here in California and graduate with the major I want.  My plans like I said, were to graduate high school with good grades, keep on playing soccer hopefully with a scholarship, graduate college and then after get a stable job and be with my girlfriend with a family. I plan on being a detective as a CSI and just work with sciences.  I picked that field because I love and enjoy working with plants, DNA, and anything that involves science.  I have told you practically all of my life, for example my hobby, my future, my family, and my plans.  I am sophomore and hopefully people enjoy reading my autobiography.