I just got back from dinner. It’s been a long day and an even longer week. This week was seven times longer than this day to be exact. That’s how our calendar system works or whatever, but now I’m rambling. Today was my first day off in two weeks, because I have been picking up shifts at work pretty much non-stop. Don’t feel bad for me because my job is extremely easy, and I get to work on schoolwork whenever I have down time. Which is most of the time. You didn’t hear this from me though. I paid 10 dollars more than usual to fill up my tank today. I didn’t really have a lot to do today either, so I decided to go do some food deliveries to recoup some of my money. It went pretty well. I made like 60 bucks for just a couple of hours of driving around. I have a lot of experience doing that type of work so that helps a little bit too. This week we went to visit the Casa de Manana Retirement Community. It’s a very expensive place by the beach. I’d never been inside any place like it. For one it oozes history, it’s very old, about a hundred years old. I forget when exactly they said it was built. The artwork that they had hanging up on the walls was very intricate and beautiful, I wish I would have taken a picture. Personally, I felt out of place during our visit. Like I mentioned to some of the seniors, I’m from a low-income Hispanic neighborhood in Riverside. I had to really struggle to get to a school like UCSD. Not many other local kids were able to. I had a really hard time not feeling intimidated by the people that lived there. They seemed to have everything. Successful careers, beautiful minds, and they all talked about how they had traveled while they were young. They had seen the world. When I actually got the chance to talk to them, they started to seem a lot more like regular people. They shared life lessons, advice, and I felt like I was getting over the unconscious assumptions I had made.
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Anthony RomeroAnthony Romero is a Public Health major with a concentration in Epidemiology with a minor in Archives
March 2022
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