Stream of Consciousness

   I was born on October 24, 1997 in Los Angeles, California. I was born inside of the Children's Hospital. It was 3:24 am when I was born. I love my family, 2 brothers and a mother and father, and all my cousins. I love technology in general because of the way it works. I love seeing everything work together as you build or just use it. I also love playing video games.

   I have done many things in my life that I have loved. I have done 500+ community service hours within 6-8 grade. I had only stopped due to the fact that the program I was doing was shut down do to funding. I missed it and made a lot of different friends from around the city. In the program we went all over LA and helped people and it changed me as a person because I saw how bad some places were like Skid Row. We went to help organize the clothes they were going to give out and I just saw how bad it was. To this day I see everything differently than before.

   I see myself as a person who likes to help and wants to learn a lot but I change from one thing to another without fully understanding the first thing I tried to learn. I like to learn a lot of different things that most people don't seem to want to learn like how to design and code websites and code in general like HTML, CSS,  scripting, etc. I love looking at what I have made and done on a finished website and actually use it.

   When I think of my future I like to see myself as either a Computer Science major or a Computer Engineer  major, maybe even major in one and have a minor in the other. I love seeing the inside of computers and looking at how they move and react to each other in unison. Due to me liking it I had built my own computer from the parts and have had it for a year in January and I love seeing it because my brother said that I would mess up and that it would be a waste of my mother's money but once I got it working my told him to his face that I was able to do it and laughed. He just made a face and walked away.

   That practically sums me up. I have not done much but I am happy with it. I wish to do more but I just seem to get lazy at times.

What is an American?

    An American to me is a person who believes is everything that America was based off of and wants the best of it. An American to me is a person who cares and wants what is best for this country. Some are born here or came from another country to have a better life. Some of those people who migrate want to be an American so they to can be or do what they want without having restraints on them from there old government. They believe in everything that American is based on and want to live by those beliefs.

    When I think of an American person I usually think of a white man or female living a house in the middle of America but for some places that is not what it is like. There are cities like New York and Los Angeles where they are all these different types of people who are from places all around the world some born in the US and some that were not but they all still live here and want to be free to do what they want like saying what they want about anything. These people want to be an American so they pay money and take a test to be an American. But what does a test prove? It just shows what you know and studied, why not learn how they are and what they believe in and not just simple question like what is the 18th president? An American is a person who can study and remember stuff an American is someone who believes in everything that the founding fathers thought of because that is what makes us different and what makes American the place to go and the place to be for freedom. Not trapped under the thumb of the government.

         I think that a person who claims that they are an American should be able to tell me what the main problems in America are at that moment like right now with the problems with Obamacare and also the attacks of the drones in the Middle Eastern countries. They should know what is happening in the country they say they are proud of living in. People need to know what is happening in there own country. It is kind of sad when a person does not know big news that might affect them.