Fast Food

        From all the fast food restaurants, Carls Jr. and Toppers Pizza were the only ones that I could remember going frequently with my family from all my childhood memories. I could never forget the black rugged floor with all these weird, different colored designs on it, the red seats, the crazily spotted tables, and the pictures that the owner of Carls Jr. hung up on the walls (from the same artist, I believe). We would go to the restaurant almost every Sundays as a family. My parents and my older sister would order hamburgers, like usual, whereas me and my two little sisters ordered  different types of meals. I would order 6-9 chicken stars, a large French fries, and a large drink of Coca-Cola. My parents weren’t that strict at that time with my eating habits so I was happy. And what I also remember about that place was that my aunt worked in that same restaurant so she gave us some discounts whenever we had the chance to order with her. Whenever she had breaks, she would come to us and chat about what had happened during that week. Viewing back, I believe that that place reflected the union of my family. But Carls Jr. could never compare with Topper’s delicious pizza. Oh my, back then, I thought I was in heaven each time I took a bite of the hot, cheesy, and scrumptious pizza. If one knew us personally, one would know that every time we went there was because we were having a special occasion such as birthdays or any accomplishments we had in our school. In that place, I had many favorite memories and where I thought, innocently, that everything was alright.
Today, in the present, we’re more cautious on how much we are eating than back then. I don’t rely on fast food restaurants as much as I did before. We go to Carls Jr. only when we have nothing prepared to eat in our house, but as for Toppers, we have kept the tradition all these years which I think is pretty neat. Since my little sisters and I grew out of being picky with food, we’ve started to get to know different restaurants that we’ve never been before such as Panda Express, other Mexican restaurants, and other varieties of fast food places. I’m glad that we added more to our list of favorite restaurants because we’re beginning to know different cultures and tastes that are becoming part of us. To be honest, I’m not sure how this plays a big part in my life right now, but it has given me happiness when I share these moments with my family. It gives us these small opportunities for us to talk to each other, to know what’s bothering us, and to laugh since practically we almost don’t see much of each other in the house. We all have our busy schedules, but those are the moments that I really cherish and make me feel special. So whenever you guys are eating with your family in some type of restaurant, talk to each other. Don’t be busy texting in your phones or in those new gadgets that you guys have because you really don’t know what you’re missing out. Who knows? They may just make your day brighter when you need it.

Getting to Know Me

 Hi, everyone! Just to start off, my name is Tayde Luevano (which is pronounced as “ty-dĕ” or “ty-thĕ”, in case you guys were wondering) and I was born and raised in Oxnard practically my whole life. I live in a wonderful family of 6. I’m the second oldest of my family and I have three sisters, no brothers. I went to Marina West Elementary School when I was 6 years old and during this time I didn’t know how to speak nor read English. To be honest, I never enjoyed kindergarten to 2^nd grade at all because those were the years of continuous tears when people were making fun of me. I didn’t have friends until 3^rd or 4^th grade.  I spent my time with two of my best friends named Martin and William. With us three musketeers, our imagination during recess time became magical and full of adventures. Happiness really didn’t last long by the end of that year. William moved away probably after Thanksgiving, then a few months later, my padrino, whom I was very close to, passed away. These were my first tragic events that really impacted me deeply in my young life. I fell in depression and stopped eating for a while. I was losing a lot of weight and I was getting really weak that my parents were getting very worried for me. To cut it short, I recovered slowly thanks to my God and my family and went on with life. In 5^th or 6^th grade, I entered in the Cesear Chavez Art Competition and won 1^st place in my elementary school and later won 3^rd place in the whole school district.  In 7^th grade, I went to Haydock Intermediate Junior High School and it was here where I met and made weird, funny, and crazy friends. I started talking more than in my previous school but was rarely outgoing. It was there also where I was first introduced with Anime. My whole group of friends were Anime nerds and were also gifted artists. I became an Anime artist myself also, but really wasn’t as good as them, even though they said that I was great. Then, I went to Hueneme High School. Most of my friends in junior high went to Oxnard High, but I met other great people that became my greatest friends and were people who have helped me along the way as well as my family during challenging times. I graduated from high school with honors in June 2012, and took my first Fall semester in Oxnard College.

            Right now, I’m attending Oxnard College as you can see. This is my 2^nd semester and I’m not much of an awesome writer. This is honestly my first blog I ever had so I’m kind of excited yet a bit nervous because other people will be reading what I’m writing, but I’m sure I’ll do okay. I like to draw a lot, especially Anime, of course. I like to imagine and create stories in my head and I would like to write it down in paper but apparently I haven’t done it or finished any of it. My problem I guess is that I can’t make these stories flow well or it is not well organized. I daydream most of the time which is a bad habit if I’m in class. I still live with my parents and I don’t have a job yet.

            My goals are to become a better writer and increase my vocabulary to become an author one day or become an animator and work with Disney or any other animation groups that exist out there. I really don’t know if they pay well, honestly, but I think that’s what I’ll enjoy later on. I want to get good grades, no, the best grades if possible, receive my associate degree, and hope to transfer to a university to finish my studies. I have other plans, but for now, these are some things I want to complete.  I’m looking forward to this semester and I hope we get to know each other better in this course.

 

 

P.S. If I feel like it, I might show some of my art work or drawings in this blog, and if I do, I want to know what you guys think about it, okay?