Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Pieces of Mishy


About ME


          Hello everyone!
       
         My name is Michell Rivera But I preferred to be called Mishy. Although my name in spanish is the same as "Michelle" in English. Many of my friends, peers and professors have had difficulty pronouncing my name, since it was spelled the way it sounds in spanish. Which is "Mi-chell." Anyways I am Hispanic, born here in the U.S. but my father is from puerto Rico and My mother is from Honduras. I am the first born, eldest daughter of my family. I read and write English and Spanish and currently I am learning Japanese. I have two younger brothers, so were a small family of 5. I am considered a 3rd generation Apostolic Christian. Mr grandfather was a pastor and my father is now the pastor at the church we are currently in. I Have tons if hobbies and things I like to do, so I won't go into too much detail but hopefully by the end of the year you will get to know a little more about the things i like to do.  I am the first of my family to be graduating from college hopefully in the fall of next year. I have switched majors 3 times, I started with education but hit a big bump, then i switched over to social work and still felt out of place and finally when i heard of youth development i felt like "That's it! That's exactly where I feel I fit in!" Now I'm working on finishing the few courses I have left so i can graduate and hopefully start a cool non-profit after school program regarding anime and comics.




As for being part of youth development I am really happy that I am here. I have always enjoyed working with adolecents or teens. My ages usually range but I feel like I can work with kids from the ages of 12 to maybe 18. I have worked with teens since I was the youth leader at my church around the age of 14 up until I was 23. I now work in seven hills and take of my cousin who has cerebral palsy for about 6 years now and he himself is now a teenager. I was was president and ran an Anime club at my local library for about three years, we did stuff from going to anime and comic conventions to drawing and creating manga.  So I have a passion for sharing and getting to know teens. I feel like I can connect with them and work ways to understand each other. I feel that I reach out so much to teens because I know how hard it is to be their age, they are still figuring out, who they are and what they want to do with their life. And I would really like to be one of those people who inspires them to continue on and to help them anyway I can. I want to help reach out, connect and encourage youth of the beauty around them.

Can't wait to get to know everyone else and i wish everyone the best in this semester!




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