Alejandro Alvarado:  

Hello CLASSMATES Members! Hope everyone is doing well in your own lives and wish you all nothing but the best! My name is Alex and was a student at Lamar Jr High, which by the way was the best time of my life! For those of you at Lamar from the 86-90 period, I was the skinny lil kid with long hair in the wheelchair that was always runnin people over, accidentally of course. lol Acquired the name "Wheels" for some time that passed around but mainly started by this guy named Lazaro, although I don't remeber his last name. "Why four years at Lamar?", you may ask,well unfortunately got detained in the seventh grade and although not the proudest highlight of my life, I was able to meet great new people at the time. They weren't the best of friends or anything. I belive I had two or three but they may disagree, lol. But there were quite a few good souls that made my schooling there a little more easier. If you know know me, you know who you are so my deepest thanks and wishes.:-) To answer question many people had about my disability but were to afraid to ask, I have Spina Bifida. Its a spinal cord incompletion at birth to sum it all up and pretty much kept me in chair. Although I can walk on crutches for a few yards and did so for a short time at Lamar as well but sweated like you could not believe and got to class late! lol That was in seventh grade too now that I think of it. lol Anyway, after Lamar, I moved to Mission and attended Mission High School for almost two years. My father did alot of moving around to keep his electrical contracting business up and running. Mission High was okay, met a few ppl that were very understanding and did not give me "the awkward look" (Ask any disabled person who was young and disabled in school, they'll tell you or better yet act out the awkward look.) lol But I really want...Expand for more