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I started Kindergarten in California when I was four years old. I was in a program called Spanish emersion, which is where you learn and speak spanish in school. I was speaking, reading nd writing fluently in spanish by the end of the year. Then it was time to move..
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I moved to Arizona in June of 2005. The day that we moved in it was 117 degrees. We moved here after my sisters graduated from high school. I was five at the time and they were seventeen.
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Little did we know that when we moved there that there was no spanish emersion program. I had to spend my summer moving and learning to read and write in better english. I used hooked on phonics to learn to read better.
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I started first grade at sunset hills elementry school. I was 5 years old and everyone else was six years old. I had a difficult time adjusting to a new place where I knoew next to no one. The only person I knew at the time was a close family friends daughter named Dominique who eventually signed a contract where she could only play with one group of friends at recess.
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My parents would not let my sisters get emancipeted so that they could go to college. They had to wait about six months before they could move out. After that I was pretty much alone. ( One of my sisters with her two kids, me , my mother and my father.)
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I started dance when I was 6 years and I continued until I was about 12 years. I honestly can not tell you why I quit espically when I enjoyed it so much. I did tap , then in my freshman year I took dance again in school. I learned history of different styles while also learning and doing jazz,ballet and modern while contuining tap. I sprained my ankle before my sophmore year and sprained my ankle and I havent really been able to dance since.
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My neice was born on September 25 of 2008. Her name is Nora Andrea Velez. I was 8 years old when she was born and in 4th grade. Now she loves to read and she is a very bright and loving girl.
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I was forced to join band because of my mother. After a week I was readyto quit but I am happy I stuck with it. I have been playing 5 years now. IN my 9th grade year I tried oboe for half a semester, and I tried tenor sax for a year in 7th grade. (picture of me and Dominique the day prior to winter concert)
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I had also done a plethera of other hobbies in my life. I was in a band class in school, a band club after school, art club after school , choir , violin lessons, tennis and the Friends of Rachel Club ( I was part of the welcoming comittee). (My first pictire in Art club)
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I had been telling my parents that I wanted to play violin for a little while at the time, one day they said, "hey we have a surprise for you" and they had gotten me a violin. I have been taking lessons for it since that time and still continue to today. I had my first recital for it about two months ago.
