6 years too late... but 6 years very early...

6 years...

Many things can happen in 6 years. You can:

graduate high school

finish college

lose friends

gain friends

lose parents

become a parent

get married

get divorced

buy a house

lose a house

So many things can be ruined and accomplished in 6 years that it is impossible to track all of them.

This topic came to my mind when I was having a conversation with my best friend Vicky. We were reminiscing about high school and previous years. One of the events that marked our youth forever was the death of Rogelio, a dear friend. We were about 15 or 16 years old. He died in a motorcycle crash in Mexico and we were devastated. He died on Christmas day and 2010 marked his 6 year anniversary.

It was so hard to imagine why a young life was taken. It did not seem fair to us that his life was taken at such an early age.

Remembering joy and tragedy showed us how much we have grown and matured these five years. We went from being crazy and a little out of control teens to responsible and hard working young adults.

We came up with a question while revisiting the past:

"If we could go back 6 years, what would we tell the person we were 6 years ago? What advice or reprimands would we give that person?"

Would we tell our selves not to buy that overly priced gucci bag with all our childhood savings?

Would we tell our selves not to get that hair cut or hair color?

Would we tell our selves not to buy face cleansing products with benzoyl peroxide because we are allergic to them and would swell our face to the point of keeping us from taking our senior picture in high school? (my own personal experience)

Or would we tell our selves not to cry over that guy because he would have greasy hair and very bad breath 6 years later.

I know I would show the current picture of that guy to the 16 year old me. Believe me it would have saved me an amazing amount of time!

Is it possible that we would make a list of guys or girls that made our life impossible... who broke our heart... who took our boyfriend/girlfriend...who made us cry.... or who in some way or another lowered our self esteem or self value? Would we get that list and show it to our 6 year younger self and avoid heart ache, humiliation and guilt?

Or is it even more possible that we would be able to prevent the pain we casted upon others?

Many things can be done in 6 years.

Unfortunately, we are 6 years too late to change numerous amounts of things that have happen to us.

But the next time you are thinking of regrets and failure, think about this:

"We are early and on time to start the next 6 years of our lives".

Dazed and Confused

So I got in....

SDSU....starts January.

I'm very happpy, I won't lie. I always said I would never end up there but deep down inside I knew I would.

I'm very happy that I am finally leaving community college and in no way am I looking down on it, however, my time to leave came.

I have been stuck in a self made hole and finally I can leave and reach my goal of graduating.

I am scared about many things regarding SDSU.

I'm scared of not being able to afford tuition.

and

I'm scared of all the other issues regarding money.

But mostly I'm scared of almost finishing school.

Although graduating will be a huge accomplishment in my life it will also mean that I will enter another level of adult hood.

I will no longer have a job that involves me folding clothes or joking around. I will now have to take life more seriously and grow up.

The funny thing is that I am not scared of the classes or even failing the. I have heard so many people talk about how hard it is and how they have a 2.5 after having an almost 4.0 in high school. I think that it is all about motivation and dedication.

I am dazed and confused but at the end I am more excited and motivated

High School Memories...Back to the Past

They say that when you are young you are experiencing the best period of your life.

I'm only 22 but I agree. I have so many crazy stories about random nights out and ones that are so weird that it is embarrassing for me to tell.

On Friday morning I got to shadow a reporter for the morning show. We went to Cathedral High school in Del Mar and visiting a high school campus brought back so many memories of my own high school experience.

It has not been so long since I've graduate but a lot has happened.

Watching those students interact with each other and ask me questions about what I do reminded me of how fresh and innocent I was leaving that auditorium that windy June afternoon.

I was full of dreams and goals I wanted to accomplish. I still have those dreams and goals, however, it's different because I am not as naive. It began to get to me when people said how impossible those dreams were but something changed this year.

After three years of staying still and watching life go by, I decided to take action. This taking of action led me to NBC.

It was really a very random decision. I was set on going to Mexico for four moths and live with some friends and do absolutely nothing. But something parked inside. I thought "Why not?"...""May be I could do it" and I did. I felt so confident writing the essays and turning in the application. Something inside me told me I was going to make it. And I did.

I have been an intern at NBC for about 12 weeks now and it has been great. I work early 4 am to 9 am shifts and have been learning a lot!

I guess somethings do happen for a reason...so for now I am enjoying my last weeks of intern life and writing this in a middle of a breaking story. So I gtg!

Lulu 101

So My name is Lourdes but no body calls me by my name.

I am commonly known as Lulu.

I was born in San Diego California but I was raised in Tijuana Mexico.

I am a college student, finalizing my long awaited college years.

Life has been exciting. It's been filled with drama and periods of tranquility but mostly, there has been a lot of growth within me.

I work in retail at a clothing called EXPRESS and I am currently interning at NBC 739 in San Diego. This semester has been a very active one. I have gone through school, work and an internship at the same time. Of course there is also the occasional boy drama but I tend to stay away from that.

Life is interesting right now.

I am in transition. Through this blog you will get an idea of what life is for a 22 year old aspiring journalist who does not know what life has in store for her.