Jackqueline Perez's Blog

For my paper, I decided to study Selena Quintanilla Perez. Most of the things that I researched were what I already knew about it, so I already had prior knowledge but what did surprise me was how her song "dreaming of you" has over 2 million airplays, especially in the English album where her label didn't believe she would get big with or make much money. 

While I was in Mexico we just stayed in the area where my parents lived and go to the city. That was basically our days over there. But as a family, we decided to go to this one island called Patzcuaro, Michoacán. to get there we had to go on boats it wasn't an island you can drive up to this one was an actual island. How they lived and how their neighborhood was built was way different from over here in the US and where my parents grew up. Their house was built on the island it was like a mountain just a hill and the top of the hill just went up. The farther you go up the roads the steeper it gets. I also notice how all the little streets connect to the top basically the main attraction of why people go there. There's a huge statue of the founder of Michoacán and people can go inside the statue and go to the top of it. What I was drawn to while being there was how much they appreciate the Mexican culture and the" Michoacán style" of our culture. I learned more about

What I learned this semester about myself is I'm more disciplined when it comes to do homework then I thought. In high school teachers didn't care if we did the homework's or not if they did care Id do it during class so I always believed I wasn't disciplined enough to do it because the teachers never cared. Now that we are half way through the semester I now see how much I can do it in one day because how much I'm on top of it. I make sure I don't stop until I feel good about the progress that I made with y homework completion.  

  Being mindful of what we are grateful for can help us be more attuned to what's happening in and around our lives. Capture something for which you are grateful through a photograph, sketch, or writing. One of the many things I'm grateful for would be having the opportunity to have parents who can financially support me through my education. Not many families can give their children the dream of going to college or even students that don't have access to continuing their education right after high school because their parents don't want to help them financially to keep pursuing their dream of higher education. And I'm thankful and grateful to have hard-working parents who can financially support my brother and me through our education. 

Choose an object to explore. Set your timer. After 1 minute, list everything that you notice. After 2 minutes of looking, list additional observations. After 5 minutes of looking, list additional details. How did spending more time looking change your perception and/or understanding of the object? An object that I choose to explore was my led pencil. For the first minute, I pointed out the obvious like the colors it has, the wording it has on the side, etc. When I did the second timer I started to see more of the texture of the body and the led. In the 5 minutes, it was kinda hard to observe more I was thinking what else can I write down if I already pointed out the obvious of it. I took 2 minutes out of the 5 to think about what else I can observe. What came to mind was the sound it made and what it looks like when I take the bottom with a part off. Taking more time to look at and change my perception really helped me think outside the box from what we are all used to. Helped me see m