I Love My Life
Dora Poole- I Love My Life Dora Poole PSY 202 CGA1149A Althea Artis
Dora Poole- I Love My Life
I have been through a lot in my forty eight years of life. Some of the experiences have been extremely positive and others leave much to be desired. The study of Adult development theories will allow me to analyze the past and help me to describe the journey my life has taken. The combined experiences have brought me to “Love my Life” today, and to have great hope for my future. I grew up in San Francisco California, a town that doesn’t sleep. I loved the “city” It was not uncommon for us to be catching the bus at midnight and there to not be an empty seat. Being an urban city there were a lot of activities that we could be involved in for free. I took African dance classes and guitar lessons. I enjoyed singing in the school choir, and loved performing at the basketball games on the drill team. At age thirteen, I remember my parents started taking us on trips on the weekend to look at different houses. They had saved up money for a down payment and now wanted to buy a house instead of renting. They found one across the bay bridge in Hayward Ca.
It was like culture shock for us because unlike San Francisco, Hayward was a quiet place where the buses stopped running at 7:30 pm. It seemed like we moved to the back woods because the small town only had one middle school in our area and they didn’t have a basketball team, much less a drill team. There was a fee for any extracurricular activities that we wanted to be in. I guess the idea was that if you can afford to live there, you should have money to pay the sports teams and dance classes that we got for free in San Francisco. My mother loved to keep us busy, believing that giving us multiple experiences would help us be well rounded, and help us decide on a career. In Hayward, she had to limit our activities and divide their limited funds
Dora Poole- I Love My Life
I have been through a lot in my forty eight years of life. Some of the experiences have been extremely positive and others leave much to be desired. The study of Adult development theories will allow me to analyze the past and help me to describe the journey my life has taken. The combined experiences have brought me to “Love my Life” today, and to have great hope for my future. I grew up in San Francisco California, a town that doesn’t sleep. I loved the “city” It was not uncommon for us to be catching the bus at midnight and there to not be an empty seat. Being an urban city there were a lot of activities that we could be involved in for free. I took African dance classes and guitar lessons. I enjoyed singing in the school choir, and loved performing at the basketball games on the drill team. At age thirteen, I remember my parents started taking us on trips on the weekend to look at different houses. They had saved up money for a down payment and now wanted to buy a house instead of renting. They found one across the bay bridge in Hayward Ca.
It was like culture shock for us because unlike San Francisco, Hayward was a quiet place where the buses stopped running at 7:30 pm. It seemed like we moved to the back woods because the small town only had one middle school in our area and they didn’t have a basketball team, much less a drill team. There was a fee for any extracurricular activities that we wanted to be in. I guess the idea was that if you can afford to live there, you should have money to pay the sports teams and dance classes that we got for free in San Francisco. My mother loved to keep us busy, believing that giving us multiple experiences would help us be well rounded, and help us decide on a career. In Hayward, she had to limit our activities and divide their limited funds
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