Angelica Perez:  

LIFE AFTER HIGH SCHOOL ---you asked--- 1974-2015 (Updated Aug. 2015) In June after our junior year, my parents decided to take us back to Mexico and continue our education there. I enrolled in Morelia, Michoacan in a pre-law prep school, after struggling to get accepted for an entire year. In 1976, I enrolled and only lasted that year there. I was on my own in the city and I had a little too much freedom, after having none before this. So, school was not my priority at that time and I wasted my dad's money! In 1977, I came back to Humboldt, got married and settled in the Central Valley- Arbuckle, CA to be exact. We had four children, Karina, Octavio, Josue and Iluixochitl. (Now 38, 36, 32 and 30) In Fall of 1989, I started at Chico State and got my double teaching credential 5 years later -Spanish and Elementary-. In that same Spring of 1993, I was hired by Williams School District to teach 4th grade. I have been there ever since! I taught at the 4th-6th grade level for 14 years and was offered a job at the high school teaching Spanish in 2008. I am happy to be using my second credential! Three of my children are college graduates and one of my sons chose the Army as a career and is with Special Operations. I have four grand children, twin boys from my oldest son and my youngest girl has a girl and a boy. I am very proud of my four children! They are my life! Like I always say---LIFE IS GOOD!--- 2009- August My summer is over and I did quite a bit. I got to go to Vegas for 4 days. Now that was unique trip! I went by myself with no agenda. Yes, by myself!! I did have fun for the most part, but then I got lonely. With all those thousands of people and I was lonely! I then came home and took off to Germany for 3 weeks to see my son and his beautiful family (Tavio, Katja, Kilian and Yanik). I babysat my twin grandsons and potty trained them. For a grams that is a big thing, a...Expand for more