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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
The wonderful person who I got to interview and takes the time to save the community was Sandra Hernandez; she is a woman who exudes a sense of peaceful calmness, she’s Hispanic, yet a very intelligent person. She just graduated from Kelvyn Park this year and is starting her freshman year at Colombia College.
She also explains to us how she has two parts jobs. One she baby sits; she was telling us that she at least attends 10 families per week. The other job is that she is a Banker. Whether shes not working, shes at school and when she’s not at school she’s working. “I hardly never get any time for myself...” she told us. Sandra is a very hardworking woman.
She was explaining to us how she’s studying for Videography and also photography so that when finished with school, she can do videos about the community and what some people do for a lifetime so that people can stop stereotyping the Latino community as a poor environment.
As I’ve said that she attended Kelvyn Park during all the four years, she was telling us how difficult it was on her freshman year, there would always be fights at least twice a week and securities would not do anything about it. Also, seniors would pick on the freshman and they wouldn’t defend themselves. She once made a video about a freshman on his first day of school and it showed how the securities would hassle him and bullies would pick on him a lot. She wanted to exaggerate the rumors and make it seem like it was the worst school in the community, in the end, she was stating the Real facts about the school.
She had worked on this other video where it takes place on Logan Square and she shows her work with the Social Justice Academy (SJA) and with the Yes-Yes-No Reference in the 35th ward. She hopes that one day it would help the people from the community and to speak up and stand up for what they believe.
Although I hardly met Sandra, she seems like a true hero. Determined and stands up for what’s right, she never gives up. Through no matter what. Sandra inspires me and I hope that one day I could become like her.
She also explains to us how she has two parts jobs. One she baby sits; she was telling us that she at least attends 10 families per week. The other job is that she is a Banker. Whether shes not working, shes at school and when she’s not at school she’s working. “I hardly never get any time for myself...” she told us. Sandra is a very hardworking woman.
She was explaining to us how she’s studying for Videography and also photography so that when finished with school, she can do videos about the community and what some people do for a lifetime so that people can stop stereotyping the Latino community as a poor environment.
As I’ve said that she attended Kelvyn Park during all the four years, she was telling us how difficult it was on her freshman year, there would always be fights at least twice a week and securities would not do anything about it. Also, seniors would pick on the freshman and they wouldn’t defend themselves. She once made a video about a freshman on his first day of school and it showed how the securities would hassle him and bullies would pick on him a lot. She wanted to exaggerate the rumors and make it seem like it was the worst school in the community, in the end, she was stating the Real facts about the school.
She had worked on this other video where it takes place on Logan Square and she shows her work with the Social Justice Academy (SJA) and with the Yes-Yes-No Reference in the 35th ward. She hopes that one day it would help the people from the community and to speak up and stand up for what they believe.
Although I hardly met Sandra, she seems like a true hero. Determined and stands up for what’s right, she never gives up. Through no matter what. Sandra inspires me and I hope that one day I could become like her.
by Esther Rodriguez
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