Photo Essay

This is some of the kids that goes to After School Tutoring in Adelante Alliance.  Roberto was my FAVORITE :)  Thanks to him I started to help little kids do their home works. The boy with white T-shirt is the son of my supervisor (Karla).

This is the place that I used to go everyday. Is a small officer but is full of joy.  In that officer is always busy, in the afternoon is tutore for little kids, and later on is Computer Class. I stayed once for the Computer class, is actually fun and the teacher is very nice and  for the tutoring I was almost always there. I feel proud of the kids, they are learning a lot and their reading process improved a lot by the first time I enter as a intern in Adelante Alliance. 

I actually had one computer for myself. It was really fun working by myself for 3 months.  In this computer I used to work more in transcribing Interviews, sending emails and updating the Facebook from Adelante Alliance.  

That is Karla Quinonez (my supervisor), me and Ken in Adelante Alliance. I just have to say thank you for my supervisor because in this 3 months working with her, I have learned a lot with her. She is a great mentor. Ken he was my partner during my Internship time.

Reason for choosing this picture, is mostly because I had to sometimes go to 61st with 5av to distribute pamphlets  in the street for help my set have a bigger community. It was actually fun distributing to them, sometimes the people stop and start to talk with me asking what is about, where I have to go. People were very interested about it. Some time I fell so proud because I am helping a community grow. 

As my last day being a Intern in Adelante Alliance I watched the movie Precious Knowledge. My supervisor asked me to watch their history. So sweet of her part. This movie made me think a lot in the Mexican lives before, they pass through a lot suffer and they still. They were and are fighting for their rights in USA. In 1948, USA made a border (line) for the Mexican. They couldn't pass through that border, if they did USA will kill them. Tucson High School students and adults were protesting for their rights living in USA.

During this time 48% of Mexican- American students actually drop out of high school. Arizona high school students battle state lawmakers to save their ethnic studies classes. Actually isn't that easier to fight for it. They specially the high school students were trying a lot to get their rights that a lot of them were rest. Based on the movie, a high school student said that doesn't matter what happen to us, what is the matter is what we did for us.