I was given the name Gabrielle by both of my parents. My
dad wanted to name me Gabriella but my mom disliked the name so they named me
Gabrielle. They decided on Gabrielle even though it does not make that big of
a difference.
When I got older my family had stories about my birth. My
siblings say that I was supposed to be a boy and that my name was going to be
Jacob but I do not totally believe them. I think they were just making up
stories to get me angry. Another funny thing that my family has told me was
that I was born in the hospital’s bathroom. I guess that my mom got up to use
the restroom and as she was walking into the bathroom I was born. I actually
believe this story because my own mom will back it up. But at times I don’t
believe it because my mom has made up stories just to get me mad. There is one
more thing that is interesting about my birth. I and my brothers and sisters
are all three years apart. We are not exactly three years apart but we were
each born three years after the other. I have two sister named Crystal and
Alisha. Crystal is 24 years old and Alisha is 18 years old. I also have a
brother E-Jay who is 21 years old. Anyway I am the youngest in a family of four
children. What I remember from my sibling’s birth is that my sister Alisha is
that she was a premature. She was about a month too early. I was not born yet
because she is three years older than me, but I heard stories. I do not know
anything else about when my other siblings were born. Except for the fact that
Crystal was named by my grandma after
Frosty the snowman’s girlfriend. I have
a lot of memories with my father’s parents. I have those memories because when
I was about a year old my parents got a divorce. My mom could not take care of
us because she was in a very bad state. So my siblings and I moved in with my
grandma. I do not really have any memories about my other grandma because she
passed away with cancer when I was about 6 years old. And my grandpa is not
really in my life.
I think there is one thing that is pretty unique about my
family and that is we all are really close to each other. I mean yeah, most
families can say that their family gets together during the holidays or
whatever. But we do spend the big holidays with each other. My family does a lot together we always get together and just for no
reason we will have a barbecue or a get together or even go camping or to
Las Vegas for the weekend just so we can do
something together. We have one
tradition we go to Fresno every year for a family reunion. We go to Fresno
every May for about three or four days. And we get together at a park and just
hang out with each other. In fact this year is going to be the tenth year
having one. My favorite memory is just being with my family; there it is
nothing special, but it is still my favorite.
All my life I lived in
Oxnard. My favorite city has to be Oxnard because I lived
here all my life. Even though it is kind of crowded and it is not the nicest
place, it is still my favorite. But the runner-up would have to be
Camarillo I have never lived
there but it is really nice and I hope that some day I can live there.
There are a lot of things that I like about school,
especially being able to hang out with my friends. I like most of my classes
and I do really well in them. But my classes are really boring and way too
easy for me. I am not one of those people who will go to a football game and
cheer for our team.
My favorite subject in school is English. The only reason
that I actually like English is
because I love to read and write. My least favorite subject has to be math. It
is not that I am not good in math, but the fact that it is so dull makes me
hate it. I mean all you do is add up numbers all the time. There is nothing at
all interesting about that.
Hopefully, I will be able to get into my dream College of
Pepperdine University. I think the reason that I chose this school was because
my favorite teacher went there and she was a
big inspiration to me. Also it is
a great college. My future plans are just to go to a university and graduate
and then get a job in my career field. I want to be a journalist. I choose
journalism for a couple of reasons. One is, as I mentioned before I
love to write, but it is not only about the writing, I love knowing what is
going on in the world. The first things I like to do in the morning is read a
newspaper or watch the news. Another reason that I would like to become a
journalist is because I remember from like the seventh grade my teacher asked
us to write a paper about hurricane Katrina. So I wrote my paper and I thought
it was going to get a “C” or some other decent grade. I turned in my paper and
he asked me if I copied it. I told him no that I had done the research and
wrote the paper. He said that it was really good and that it was the best in
the class. So since then I have wanted to become a journalist.
