My Bio

Birthdate

I was born in San Diego, California on August 14th, 1995 in our local hospital. My family (my brother, dad, and grandfather) have lived in the same house since I was born. My grandfather lived in our house with his wife for around 50 years. There are so many memories in my house and that’s one reason we will never leave.

Family Members

I don’t know a lot of my family history but I have a brother, James, who is 19 years old. My father, Jim, and my grandfather, Walter who I call “papa”. Those are the people I have lived with my whole life. My mother, Beth, has lived in North Carolina since I was one years old. The only other family I see is my aunt, Jonie. My cousins, Michelle and Mark. My dad has been the only one I had as a blood relative but my next door neighbor, Cindy, is sort of like a mom to me. She is always there for me, she pays for my school, clothes, musical instruments/lessons, etc. My grandfather is a great person, everyone enjoys his company and I’m glad he lives with us. Also, a lot of people in my family are adopted. Well, the family that I know. My aunt, and my dad are both adopted by my grandfather and both of my cousins are adopted. I had two half sisters that I met when I was a baby but don’t remember meeting. I hope one day I can meet them.

Childhood and School Life

When I was a child, one huge thing that was important to me was basketball. It was the best thing for me and I would look forward to basketball practice and basketball games. I would say I was pretty good. Two huge accomplishments for me was one, when my basketball team won citywide championships against some of the best teams in our age group in California. Two, when I played on an all guys team and was undefeated. At first, the guys treated me differently because I’m a girl but soon realized I had the same experience as them. I don’t play basketball anymore because of an injury but I hope to start playing again sometime in the future.

As a child (elementary school) I got really good grades and I enjoyed learning and participating in class. I loved every subject. Then as soon as I hit 5th grade, I started to dislike school and learning and I got terrible grades but I ended up passing and going to middle school. Middle school, I also got really bad grades and didn’t enjoy the environment but ended up passing as well.

Hobbies, Interests, and Activities

In October 2010, I was interested in learning an instrument. I looked into different instruments for awhile and I seemed to gravitate towards the guitar. I bought my first guitar soon after. I went searching on craigslist for a cheap beginners guitar and found this beautiful white Fender acoustic guitar. I fell in love with it! When I first bought the guitar, I barely knew anything. No chords, and most definitely didn’t know what anything on the guitar was called. I started looking at some Youtube videos to learn basic chords and what not. I learned simple songs like Happy Birthday and basic chords. Soon after, I started taking lessons at Moze guitars in La Mesa. I was so excited. As soon as I started lessons, I was hooked. I was a natural. I would go to lessons on Saturdays and practice at home for at least five hours a day.  A little while after, I started writing songs and singing. I knew I loved to sing but now that I can write music with it, it was even better. After I wrote a couple songs, I started performing at open mic nights. The first two times I played at Frubble, I was extremely nervous. I even forgot some of the words to my songs. I then found Cosmos Coffee Shop and did an open mic night there and wasn’t nervous at all. I was confident and I did great. This year (my senior year) I started taking guitar class at school and performed in front of my class. It was then announced that we were going to have a fall guitar concert so I auditioned. I got in and the day of the concert, there were 500 students and parents. Surprisingly, I wasn’t nervous at all. I played and after the concert everyone came up to me and told me how great I did. I was so excited.

Anecdotes

Sometimes we do things thinking we won’t get caught but we end up getting caught anyways. For me, it was lying. I would continuously knowing that I hated the consequences. My punishment for lying was either a mouth full of soup or baking soda. Neither were very pleasant and at the time I thought the punishment was cruel but it most definitely made me stop lying. After getting a taste of that, I would never lie again. It took many lies one after another, but sooner or later, it taught me not to lie. All kids will lie sometime in their life, more when you are a young child but still when you progress through life. But, sometime throughout your life, you will finally learn the lesson that lying is bad. That’s something your parents need to teach you but you need to realize it. You can’t go through life putting it off and continuously lying or else no one will ever be able to trust you. That doesn’t seem like such a bad thing but as soon as it starts to happen, you will realize that you wish you had your friends and families trust. That is a huge lesson I have learned and it made me who I am now.

Another thing that taught me a huge lesson was a bike accident I was in when I was younger. I was riding with my friends around Lake Murray without a helmet and I ended up trying to go up this extremely steep hill without a helmet on and I fell off my bike and cracked my head open. I had to go to the hospital and get staples in my head for a few weeks. I ended up having short term memory loss and for awhile, I couldn’t even remember what had happened to me before I got to the hospital. All I had remembered was waking up in the hospital next to my dad. Now, we all know we go through a time in life where we think it’s “uncool” to wear a helmet but once you get into an injury, it definitely makes you realize that it’s an important part of riding your bike. Your parents make you wear a helmet for a reason. Even if you think you are the best bike rider around, you need to wear a helmet because accidents happen.

Career

I have never had a job but I want to be a musician and a hair dresser. First off, music is a huge part of my life. It’s a passion of mine and I wish to have music in my life forever. I started learning to play guitar about 2 years ago and ever since I first picked up a guitar, I knew I wanted to play for the rest of my life. After I started playing the guitar, I started learning basically every string instrument and it was super fun. I’ve done a couple open mic nights and that helped me realize that I always want to perform. I love having an audience and I love seeing peoples reactions at the end when I play that last chords. Along with music, I recently became interested in hairdressing. It’s super fun to change the style and cut of my hair as often as I possibly can so being able to help other people with that would be interesting in my opinion. I’m trying to get a job at Supercuts or any hair cutting place so I can get a feel of the environment and soon, I will start college to learn the business and technique of hairdressing, which I can’t wait to do. Throughout life, I have changed my career choice so many different times such as vet, computer technician, etc. But, I ended up choosing music and hairdressing and I think I will stick with them at least for awhile.