Graduation

Whoohooo!! I finally did it. I graduated from high school. I think yesterday was one of the nicest feelings and one of the nicest day ive had in my life ( along with my quinceñera, but this feeling was different) I was so happy to be there along with my friends, standing before our parents and relatives, finally graduating from school after 14 yrs.

There was happy, funny and crzy moments, it was such a memorable night. I spoke to plp I hadnt spoken to in a while, while we were in line waiting to walk down the aisle. Some guy said, "Man, al fin me voy a ser graduate, if I can do it, anyone can, let this be a lesson to myself and to anyone who thinks they couldnt do it." There was alot of smiles and laughs, I think it was the firs time I saw so many plp smile for so long.

While diplomas were being accepted, some guy did a backflip under the arch, another one started dancing, and another one started shaking his whole body and screaming. Some plp wore pink and black converse. Some plp were completely lost and some u could tell were really nervous about going up. But overall it was nice and I had fun. I hope i see some of these plp later on in life, and i hope the best for all of these plp and I hope they all become succesful plp.

I think the most memorable event of the night was when they called out Joe Salas III's name out. He passed away in a car accident this past September, he was a very good friend of my older brother, my sister and my cuñada. When they called out his name, they said that in honor of his place, his parents were going to accept his diploma. Se me vino un sentimiento bien grande, y queria llorar. When both of his parents accepted his diploma, the whole crowd and graduates went wild and applauded and cheered and the whole stadium stood up. It was the nicest thing i have ever seen at a graduation. Last yr, when my cuata and my bf graduated, they also honored two plp that had passed away during the yr, but noone stood up, like they did yesterday. It was super nice, y fue un honor bien grande para sus padres, y todos les pagamos respeto.

Maybe later i'll post some fotos up, but for now Congratulations to the P.S.J.A. High School Class of 2005! Go Bears! Whoohooo!

Yo te amo como.....

My family watches La Academia on TV Azteca every Sunday. We like this Tv show cuz its fun to watch plp sing, its the Mexican version of American Idol. Newayz, we also watch it cuz we like to hear the juezes get mad at plp for not singing the song right o nadamas para criticarlos. But overall, we each have our own favorite singer. Here's a little cachito that my sister and I took from one of the songs:

"Yo te amo como el chango a su banana
Yo te amo como el perro a su croqueta
Yo te amo como el sapo a su rana
Yo te amo como el niño a su paleta, Yoooooo"

Hehe. That was fun. We sang it to my mom and my grandma and they were laughing really hard cuz its a little change that they did to the original song, just to make it fun.

Battle of the radios :P

Yesterday my mom and me went to go pick up my little brother from his friends house at night and we stopped at a hot-dog stand along the way porque a mi papa se le habian antojado unos hot dogs. So my mom and my brother got off to buy the hot-dogs and my cuñada and me stayed on the car. Of course im a big country music fan, and i had my music on somewhat loud with the windows down. I was singing along like i always do, and then a truck came and parked next to me with its music really loud. It was playing tejano music.

I have no problem with tejano music, i love it, i dont listen to it cuz my older broters and sisters listen to it and i dont like to listen to the same music they do, para llevarles la contra, that and i have to be in the mood to listen to it. I wasnt in the mood to listen to it, so i highered my radio. Then the guy in the truck next to me highered his and i highered mine. I dont exactly have a very good system in my car and comparing it to the trucks system, mine was crap. hehe. I turned around and i told my cuñada," Que? le hacemos battle con mi crappy radio a la truck? or we put my brothers crappy music?" she just laughed and told me to go for it. I waited for my song to be over and i put a song by Chris Cagle and highered it even more. The guy turned around stared at my car and highered his more. So I highered mine more.

After like 5 minutes like that, my mom came y me pregunto, "Que chin****s traes? Porque tienes el radio bien recio?" I told her what happened and she started laughing. Man that was funny.

I'm better! :D

After two days that I felt like crap, i finally feel better. :D My mom took me to the doctor on Monday and i had 101.8 of fever and i had a stomach virus. So i was glad that i went early and i got medicine and a shot cuz now i feel much better.

Practice went fairly well. Its weird how I saw so many plp that i had never seen in school before and some plp who i didnt know where seniors. But i guess its nice seeing all of them. Its kind of sad though cuz we had a graduating class of 502 students and because of the TAKS, about a little over 150 arent graduating. So there was still alot of them missing. I think my cuñado is going to sit in the row in front of me cuz there was one empty seat in front of me between Matamoros and Martinez, so i think thats his.

Newayz, they had a slideshow/ video of what happened throught our senior yr, and it was really nice. It showed everything from pep rallys, to football games, to senior brekafast, to all the times we gathered in the center court and made noise. I came out along with my amigas in the pictures too. :D Well, i have a feeling que me voy a poner a chillar el Sabado cuando haga graduate. tear, tear. :

i'm sick :(

Me duele mi cabeza, I have a fever, my tummy hurts, i'm really cold and i cant eat. :( This really sux , cuz i feel bad and i hope it takes off before tomorrow cuz i have practice for graduation and I have my last presentation of the yr. So i really hope i feel better.

I dont understand though why im sick. Maybe it was my sobrino que me lo pego, cuz he was really sick like two days ago cuz he had a stomach virus. I felt like this last yr but i dont have a bad cough, like i did last yr. I hope I feel better.

Senior Year

Today was the last day of my Senior yr. =*( It was a sad day for me.) I didnt care much for my first period class, I mean all of them were Seniors and I had grown up with very few of them since i was in Pre-K, but i wasnt as attached to them as i was to my third period class. Even thouhg i had barely known my friends from third period for no less than 1 to 3 yrs, I felt more comofortalbe with them and i was so attached to everybody. I gave them a little 1 minutes super short speech:

"Guys, los quiero mucho, se me cuidan y no cambien. Gracias por hacer mi Senior yr bien bonito y memorable, y por no hacer tan cabezones. I'm gonna miss you guys and i hope all goes well for you. Thanx for making this yr, Bravo Company the Best Company. You are all in my heart. Okay, ya, me voy a poner a chillar, so thats it"

Then the guys that were always being somewhat cabezones started singing "Te queremos Diana, te queremos!" and the whole class joined in. Aww that was nice and cute. I'm going to miss being with them and i'm glad i was their company commander. I guess whats going to stay in my mind for a while was what one of them wrote in my yr book, " Thanx for being the nice girl you are, you made me feel like i belonged in this class where everyone was in cliques. You broke up the cliques and united all of us and you made the whole class like each other, when we all had our own differences, you made us see beyond them and u didnt make us feel any less than all your other friends"

After the bell rang, they shouted the loudest "BRAVO" I have heard throught the whole yr. Which was very nice, they did it for us the Seniors. I tried so hard not to cry but once i saw that one of my guy friends who is also a senior start crying, tears started coming out of my eyes. Then he came and hugged me y me dijo," Te me cuidas mucho, no hagas nada malo y te quiero ver muy pronto." I can say, I loved my Senior yr in high school. It was nice, and ive had many great memories to share with my friends for yrs to come. Maybe later on i'll share them. But for now, im waiting for next week when i walk down that stadium in my white cap and gown and standing out in a pool of marroon cap and gowns.

Estar Guars :D

My boyfriend had been bothering me the whole freaking yr to go with him today to the movies. Just to go see Star Wars. Yes hes a Star Wars geek. hehe. After many objections, i finallly decided to go sit my tooshie down to see what all the fuss was about. I have to say that it was a pretty good movie overall. :D

The judge

Today I went to the San Juan P.D. to see the judge to see how much my stupid speeding ticket was going to be. I have to pay $198 by June 26. It still annoys and bothers me that im still going to have to pay for something i didnt do. Mi dad dijo que el juez estaba loco, y que era mucho lo que tenia que pagar. I wonder if he is going to make me get a job and pay for the ticket. I just want to scream and shout cuz it pisses me off. A question....Does this mean that this goes on my record? It was my first ticket, tisk tisk at the age of 18.

Yesterday, my cuata got home and she told me "look, i got a ticket too." That was funny, and she was actually speeding! She was going 50 on a 30 mile zone in Pharr. After that we started cracking jokes about it with my other sister and my older brother. Both my brother and sister have overdue tickets in the City of Pharr and my brother has a warrant for his arrest here in San Juan. Al rato mis parents van a tener que ir a sacar a sus cuatro hijos del tambo, hehe.

I can see!

After 7 yrs of wearing glasses, my mother finally said it was ok for me to buy and wear contacts. So today, i refused to go to school. hehe. Nombre, my mom said it was ok to stay home so we could go to the eye docotor. So we made a trip to the eye doctor and i got my contacts. :D Whoohooo! I can finally see without worrying about my glasses falling, and i dont have to worry about bending them or breaking them while im laying down to watch t.v. Mi mom se rie de mi porque le digo que se siente bien bonito no traer los lentes puestos and she says that im smiling more. :D

One year

Today marks one yr of my buelitos death, Benito Olvera Isais. We went to Rio Bravo, Tamps to go visit his grave and take some flowers and coronas. The day was gloomy and it rained on us when we were there. My mom said, "Esta lloviendo porque su buelito esta feliz que lo vinimos a visitar" Last yr on this day, it was also raining, and my mother said, " El mundo llora junto con nosotros." I never knew what it was to lose someone until last yr, and sometimes i still think that my grandfather isnt dead, he is just in a very deep sleep.

My mom and I stopped going for about 5 months to Rio Bravo to visit la familia, cuz every time we went there, we came back crying. It felt really ugly to go and not see my grandfather sitting outside en la piedra afuera de la casa. It felt awkard to go and not see my grandpas smiling face and him wearing his sombrero de paja. Its still taking time to sink in and realize that he is no longer with us.

I remember sitting outside with him one day and talking to him about his family. I had to do a project for my Spanish II class, so i had to find out my bisabuelos names, mis tatarabuelos and so on and so on. He told me that he came from Guadalajara and that my bisabuelos had alot of land, and that they were really wealthy plp, but that he chose to put it down and come to la frontera and work for his own life. When he talked about his brothers and sisters, you could see a sparkle in his eye and he was smiling and laughing with me. That was the best conversation i had with him. I miss my buelito.

Yo te quiero Mucho Buelito Benito! :D

Its a small world...

Today my friends and I were talking about graduation and about the awards ceremony. I didnt go to the awards ceremony cuz i hadnt applied for any scholarships, (yes im stupid) and then other plp in my class started talking about it too. Well some plp were pretty pissed off cuz this one girl got most of the sholarships and they were talking really bad about her. The plp that were complaining are all plp who have the money to pay for their college and get what they want. This one girl is a Migrant. It pisses me off, how they can be so selfish and talk bad about this person when they dont even now her and where she comes from. Tisk, tisk.

While all that was going on, my friend turned red and told us, "Dude, thats my cousin they are talking about." Our conversation:

Me: Oh yeah, i remeber, you want to know something? Yo la conosi en Minnesotta when i went one summer with my parents.
Alicia: Really?! What? your lieing. Dude, shut up!
Me: No dude, really. I went when i was going into the 3rd grade and my grandparents along with my parents got the bright idea to go to Minnesotta to go work in the fields.
Alicia: Wow, i didnt know that.
Me: Yeah, we had to go to summer school while my parents and grandparents were working in the labores. But we never went back after that, then when i was a freshman my cuata told me Adriana was here, and i didnt know what she was talking about. Until she shoeed us a pic of all three of us that she had.
Alicia: What? dude.
Me: Its a small world and i never thought i was actualy going to meet up with someone that i met up in Minnesotta. It was weird
Alicia: No shit, dude, i was also there....i dont remember you
Me: I dont remember you either, but i remeber some other guy thats also your cousin
Alicia: Yeah, dude, remember.....

After that we forgot about what all these stuck up, snobs were all complaining about and we started talking about everything that we had passed and experienced trough when we were over there. How they wouldnt let us talk Spanish and how the teachers would get mad at us for speaking in Spanish. I think that was the main reason why all through the rest of my elementary years I was afraid to speak Spanish in school and that was one of the reasons why im not so good at it anymore. Then we laughed about how we were all Mexicans in that school and there was like only one Anglo kid in each classroom. Ahh the memories. Plp were looking at us really weird, i've nown this girl for about 5 yrs and we never talked about this until today.

I Got a ticket

Yesterday while i had barely pulled out of school, I got pulled over by a cop! It was the first time that I have been stopped by a cop, and I didnt get nervous. Well I take that back, I panicked cuz i did not have my license or my insurance card with me and i was afraid that the officer was going to get mad at me. He didnt, I told him i had a license and he checked and sure enough i had it, and as for my insurance, my dad had barely taken out my registration sticker last friday so that didnt matter.

What got me pissed was that he pulled me over for supposably speeding! I was not speeding! I had barely pulled out of the freaking parking lot from school when he turned on the lights on me. And lets say that i was speeding (which i wasnt) I would of had more common sense if i was speeding to slow down when i saw him. But I wasnt speeding, i was going 30 and he claims that i was going 37 on a school zone of 25. The lights where not flashing! It was 1 in the afternoon and the sign clearly says "Speed limit 25 when lights are flashing" and then in small letters "6:15-9:15 - 2:25- 4:15" or something like that.

I was so pissed and i started crying after that cuz 1) i had been stopped by a cop for the first time 2) i got a ticket and 3) i was scared that my parents were going to get mad at me. I got home and i called my mom and she didnt get mad, neither did my dad. I'm still mad, and i wasnt going to stay like that. My little brother and me checked it out again to see if my car could possibly pick up to at least 40 right when i pull out of the parking lot from school. It doesnt. It barely picks up to 30 even if i floor my car. Yeah, my car is pathethic, hehe, but i now for a fact that I, Diana G. Olvera, was not speeding!

My Attorney

My case is finally closed and I finally met my Attorney. :D hehe. I think its funny and weird because ya when the case is closed, i finally got to meet him. Oh well at least i met him and I didnt walk out of there without knowing who he was. I had seen his picture on a phone book, but i hadnt met him personally.

Our neighborhood

My "little" brother and I were talking about how safe our neighborhood was now, that we have "gangsters" or whatever they want to call themselves in our neighborhood. There's been more and more police officers visiting our neighborhood more often and its pretty scary. We had one of the safest neighborhoods here in San Juan, and now its not so safe anymore. Its actually a little scary being outside when i see them walk on my street. Know our street signs are being graffitied and getting ugly and we have more and more kids running around with bandanas tied around their head.

I always wonder why it has to come this. How these kids that i saw grow up and run around all mocosillos and greñudillos, took a wrong turn in life. In the last month or so there has been a couple of fights and just today there was a chase in the back of my house. Oh yeah and they tried to steal my dads truck and they broke into a lot of plps homes and they robbed them.

I'm getting scared and theres nothing we can do about it. My little brother said the same thing, that he gets scared to even be outside and not have a care in the world, like it used to be a couple of yrs ago. Here is a teen who is the same age as all the other little kids here who turned "gangsters" and he said no to all that stuff. Which is pretty cool. I hope nothing bad ends up happening, and our peace somehow by some miracle gets restored and these little teens open their eyes before its too late. Before they say "Your only way out, is in a box"

Mi pozito :P

Its always funny and weird how us or maybe at least me, get so attached and i find a place for things. In this case, my bed. :D Before i bought the bed i have, i used to have twin beds, which i shared with my cuata and my older sister. Both of us, had a side of our bed on which we slept on. Then they both left and they left me with both beds.

I could not sleep on my big sis's bed cuz i felt uncomfortable and i could not sleep on mine cuz there was noone beside me, so i found refuge on my couch. It is the most comfortable couch in the world and i could sleep the whole night without waking up anymore. I made my own pozito and i made myself very comfortable on my "bed" :D Then came the time, that my parents got tired of seeing me every night on the couch and they bought me a new bed. Its really weird and awkard sleeping on a new mattress and getting used to it. Im starting to find my perfect piece of bed so i could sleep. I want to do my pozito on my bed too. :D

Cap and gowns

Today at school they were handing out our graduation Cap and Gowns. I was all happy and excited to go and pay and receive mine. I wasnt at School today cuz i went to Present the Colors at the Holiday Inn - Holidome for the Headstart with both the female and the male Color Guards. I was hurrying up both of my Instructors b-cuz I wanted to get to school and get my gown. When i got there i went straight to where the Balfour representatives where at, and I paid for my gown. Then they handed me my gown....I wanted to cry....it was maroon. I am not supposed to graduate in maroon, I'm supposed to graduate in white. I just stood there and i stared at the gown for a while before i actually got it. It was sinking into me that they had done a mistake with my paperwork or something and that i wasnt going to graduate DAP. I was just another Reccomended Texas Scholar in the pool of all the other plp who never did anything but try and make their way through high school. I did not have the pride anymore of saying, "I did it, im not rich, im just a regular middle class girl and i did it." I took the gown and right before I left i asked the representatives:

me: Why is my gown maroon? I'm not supposed to have a maroon gown.
Them: What? are you sure? Are u DAP?
Me: Yes, im supposed to graduate DAP. Was there a mistake? Do i have to go talk to my counselor? What happened?
Them: Youre name wasnt on our DAP list.
Me:What?! are u sure? Can you check it again?
Them: Ok sure, whats your name again?
Me:Olvera, Diana
Them: No mija, youre name isnt on here, ....wait is this you?
Me:Yes
Them: oh ok, the white ones arent in until next week. Take this gown with you, but dont open it. Next week when we come back, bring it back and change it for the white gown, ok?
Me (sigh of relief) Yes sir. Thank you

I was really scared and i really wanted to cry. It might sound stupid, but when you have a family where your brother dropped out of high school, your sister graduated reccomended, and your twin graduated minimum and now u have a brother who is 15 and is expecting a baby, and none of them have done anything significant with their life, you really want to do something to at least bring some pride to your parents. Well thats my way of thinking. I "Scared" my mom about the whole gown thing and she was pissed for a while, hehe, then i told her the truth and she felt much better.

Texas Scholar Banquet

Today was the PSJA Ind. School District Texas Scholar Banquet. It was really nice to see childhood friends that went to a different school than me tonight. I went with both of my parents tonight. What i thouhgt was funny was that my dad said, "Va a ver comida?" hehe, he always asks if theres going to be food served that way he'll go. :D Newayz, its always nice and cool but yet awkard when all three schools are at the same place for one event b-cuz of so many school rivalry. But at least all three schools, P.S.J.A. High School, P.S.J.A. Memorial H.S. and P.S.J.A. North H.S., were all together at one place without causing any trouble. We had a speaker, Mr. Victor Morales, he ran for the Senate in 1996, and was the first Mexican-American in the State of Texas to be elected as a nominee for the Senate. He was really funny and made being there fun and a little better. Tear, Tear, Graduation is about 3 weeks away.

The overview

Today like any other after Military Ball, Mondays, we look back on all the pros and cons of the ball. Overall we made a very good impression on the Holiday Inn, hotel staff, which made our instructors start considering moving the ball from school (like its been in past yrs), to possibly the Holiday Inn or some other location. The staff was impressed on how a bunch of high school students could actually behave and not run around like little kids like some other schools that have had their events there, have done. Our instructors, the schools admistration, ans other classmates who are in JROTC said what i said too about the ball, that it was one of the nicest military balls in yrs. :D We were still happy about all the stuff that happened that night, it was the nicest ever and i had alot of fun with the rest of my senior friends.

A Salute to my graduating JROTC Seniors of 2005:

David Guzman
Ines Montaño
Alicia Raya
Dario Sandoval
and of course me :
Diana Olvera
:D

The Military Ball

Yesterday was the Military Ball. :D It was at the Holiday Inn-Holidome and I think it was by far the nicest Military Ball in yrs. I had a great time with my parents and my friends. I got Best Company Commander and Best Company for Bravo Company, which we celebrated by sounding off the company motto at the top of our lungs :

"Bravo, Bravo is the best, we will beat you and the rest, give us all that you've got we will beat you on the spot, rough tough lean mean Bravo Company is Supreme, so slide and stomp your feet Bravo Company's got the beat, not once but twice, Hoo-rah Bravo, Whoooah!

Whoohoo! it felt super nice and i had this great feeling of accomplishment that all my work, effort and all my headaches throughout the yr paid off at the end, that and i was really competitive with the rest of the other two company commanders. :D The night went fairly well and i wasnt nervous.

We have a tradition at any Military Ball where the Battalion Commander (me) makes the first cut in the Battalion cake with the youngest cadet of the Batallion and it was funny. Cuz the guy who was going to cut it with me, was really nervous and he was shaking while holding the saber. Our conversation went like this:

Me: Hello, you ready?
Jose: Hi, sort of.
Me: What do u mean sort of? You nervous?
Jose: Yes, im really nervous. (starts shaking with the saber in hand)
Me: Dont be, its just a cut in the cake.
Jose:Well I still am
Me:Dont be, ok? Im not going anywhere and were going to do this together.
(we both look up and theres the Army recruiter, and whole bunch of other plp looking at us and laughing at both of us b-cuz he is shaking and i'm calming him down and the saber is shaking too)
Jose: I'll try
Me: Ready?
Jose: yes, wait, no,....how do you do this?
Me:Hold it from the handle, i'll hold it too, then together we will press it down, ok?
Jose:ok.
Me:Ready?
Jose: Yes
(we cut the cake)

As we picked up the saber, the cake was falling apart which scared both of us and then that was it. the rest of the evening was pretty cool and nice. There was a few laughs here and there when the awards were presented cuz plp where completely lost and some were really nervous, but that made the eveing more interesting. Overall, it was great and we had a good time. The guys made a big deal of dancing for me and they made a circle saying "La BC, La BC, que baile, andale vamos a bailarle" They pushed me in the middle of a circle, which i tried getting out of and they started dancing for me....that was funny until my bf went and pulled me out cuz he got jealous. hehe.

Tear, tear, Military Ball is over. :( But it was the coolest. :D