New and Improved Future

High School opened a lot of new doors for me. For the first time I was offered the chance to take a language class, I got to study Mandarin for three years. Also, since I was attending High Tech High International, I was given the opportunity to travel. I went to London, Costa Rica, Italy. Of them all, London was my favorite. That was my first immersion trip, and my first time out of the country. I saw so many things in London. Buckingham Palace, Oxford University, Stonehenge, Bath and the first ever Hard Rock Café. The Hard Rock Café was amazing. It had the coolest stuff out of all the Hard Rock’s I had ever been too. London is one of my favorite places in the world.
When entering my senior year in high school, the other students began to talk a lot about their futures. Many kids didn’t know what they wanted to do with their lives. But I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a published author.
In 2011 I was accepted to UCSD, which would make me the 4th person in my family to go there. My parents, and older sister had gone there for college. While in college I worked on the college paper, UCSD Guardian. During college I also worked at Starbucks to pay off my student loans. I graduated from UCSD in 2015 with a major in Literature.
Once out of college it took me a while to find a job where I could put my degree in Literature to use. Meanwhile I weighed tables at the Hard Rock Café in downtown San Diego, until I landed a job as a journalist for the San Diego Reader. I worked at the Reader for 3 years, publishing about 90 articles in total.
In 2015, about 3 months after I started working at the reader, I met the love of my life, and now husband. He is a science teacher at San Diego High, who in his spare time is trying to prove to the scientific community his theory about how the color of a child’s room at a young age, will be their favorite color in later life, and how that can effect them.
I met him at a Starbucks, when he accidentally hit my coffee cup, spilling the coffee all over me. He bought me a new cup of coffee, and we went out on our first date two weeks later. I married him in 2017.
In August 2018, I was offered a job at the Union Tribune, working as a theater critic and journalist. I accepted the job and worked there for the till 2021, when I quit to be a full time mom. Several months afterwards I had twins, Ian and Jayne. Also in 2018 I published a novel, under a pen-name. The book was entitled A Comic Introduction a story about how two people met, walking into a telephone pole.
Now it is 2027 and I am 34 years old. Ian and Jayne are 6 years old. I went back to work a year ago, when they started kindergarten. In 2025 my book A Comic Introduction became a Major Motion picture, the Telephone Pole directed by Cherish D. Burtson, an old friend from middle school.
Though I am 34, there is a lot more I still want to do with my life. I have another book, called Four Stars Away that is currently being prepared to be released in early 2028. I want to also publish a book that I am still currently writing about my experiences as a mother. As a child I had always hoped that I would leave a small impact on the world by what I did with my life. I hope that with the books I have written and the books I am yet to write, I can makes some impact on the world, for the greater good of this country and make it a better place for my children and the families they will have someday.