Julie Garcia:
CLASS OF 1978
Villa Park High SchoolClass of 1978
Villa park, CA
Orange High SchoolClass of 1979
Orange, CA
Orange High SchoolClass of 1978
Orange, CA
Yorba Junior High SchoolClass of 1976
Orange, CA
Sabin Elementary SchoolClass of 1972
Denver, CO
Julie's Story
The Story Of a High School Dropout
Feel like I have had many lives. Been there done that- type of life.Lived in many different cities, each one feels like a different chapter of a novel.
Travel is my passion. River trips, Vegas trips, etc. Ventured to more than half of the United states visiting National parks, monuments and great museums. Learning cultures and geology. Mexico quite a few times Mexico City, Puerto Vallarta, Acapulco and of course Tijuana, Rosarito and Ensenada. Next is Egypt, Costa Rica and Washington D.C. love of history and Visit the Smithsonian.
I'm up in Oregon now for the past 2 3/4 yrs. Almost time to move to my next venture in life. Maybe Vegas-hate it there but miss my daughter and grand kids growing. Oregon is beautiful 6 months out of the year-other six is grey, cold and rainy. Living in small town with small minded people with no sense of adventure. Since Ive been here I have traveled and seen more of Oregon than many Orgonians have seen in their lifetime.
Spent my younger days Partying and having fun. Many different types of jobs including bartender for a couple years. Fun times. Don't regret not getting a college diploma or professional occupation. I have lived my life the way I wanted to without others governing when and how to do it. I could choose my hours to work around my life and kids, not work my life around my job. Three kids. One girl, Cassie, grown with own family-4 grand kids-from my first husband. Two boys from second x. Names Niko and Maverick. Niko is the artistic one and Maverick is living up to his name. Excellent in sports. When the boys were small and growing, I was night time part-time pizza delivery driver just for the extra cash. Pay for my trips and many animals-including Peruvian Pasos, goats, ducks, ferret, guinnie pigs rats, mice, snakes, cats, dogs, pig, parrots. No day care for my kids. Mom home days, dad home nights. Cub scouts, school volunteer, sports, weekend trips varied, with annual passes here and there. Always busy doing what I wanted to do, which included experiencing life and travel with my kids.
Now I'm a RGM at a pizza place. Pays my bills, just not liking the tied-down feeling. I have a wanderlust. When my youngest is done at home I'm going to become a Gypsy. Just need to find a friend to come along for the adventures.
Love the internet. Love to research. The only thing you need books for now is a great fiction story. (Grisham, Patterson, and Brad Meltzer are my favs.)
UPDATE Jan 2015. Left Oregon. Moved to Las Vegas in 2009. Love it here on the Northwest side of town. Back to delivering pizza. Making as much $ working 28 hours as I was working 48 hours as required as General Manager. I have my freedom to travel. And have I continued! Going on my 4th cruise in the Caribbean since I've moved here. Traveled down the keys and all through the Everglades in Florida. Finally went to Washington DC. Road trips here and there. Up the California coast and over to Yosemite. Hawaii again. Did Costa Rica and it was beautiful. Zion National park many times to the Narrows. South Dakota to Mt Rushmore and more. Many shows in Vegas and staycations as they call it here for the locals. Can't keep me sitting on a couch!
And I never did graduate. This would have been my class though. I couldn't keep up with the rich stu...Expand for more
ck up kids that lived there. That's how I describe my school to others. Parents gave them their credit cards to have new clothes every week. A new car for their 16th Birthday. My dad worked for Western Airlines and drove to LAX everyday to provide for his family. Left at 4am to be to work by 7:30. Moved us to a nice low crime area to attend these good schools. But living in Orange and going to Villa Park, not being popular or beautiful, not having the clothes....I dropped out after Norma Rios and her Mexican gang tried to kill me. I had left Villa Park because I needed a full time job to buy the cute clothes I learned you needed from those rich kids at Villa Park, and tried to finish at Richmond continuation school. I was sitting at the lunch tables with some people, one being a kid that lived in my neighborhood and we had been friends along with all the neighborhood kids, for a couple of years. He was also a student at Richmond. We were commenting on all the Mexican graffiti all over the lunch tables. This "friend" tells me to write "Mexicans suck goat utters", which I didn't even understand the remark at the time but I thought it funny so I did. He even handed me the marker. Turns out he liked one of the girls in Norma Rios's gang and told her. A day or so later I was attacked on a street corner by six Mexican girls. I was picked up by my hair and dragged untill they had me upside down pounding my head into the pavement. They were trying to drag me into the bushes because one of them had a knife. An old man in a car at the stop light started yelling for them to stop. They finally did when he exited his car still yelling. He offered me a ride but I was too humiliated. I reported it to the principal who interviewed the other students and he pretty much told me it was my fault. For writing a racist comment on the table. They didn't get in trouble for the assault. That was the last day I ever attended high school. I think he was black, the principle. He probably though I was just a racist white kid. Which I wasn't, and it's ironic that I went on to marry a Mexican 12 years later.
I look at people I've known in my life who went on to have careers. They seem to have the respect and prestige that comes with it. But they have the chains. They buy the "stuff" as George Carlin called it. But the stuff just sits there with them in their homes, where they are stuck. Makes them feel good though. Dave Ramsey, a famous financial planner....Radio Personality, author, lecturer, has a plan on how to get people out of debt. If you use his financial plan starting at a young age you can become a millionaire by the time you retire. "If you will live like no one else, later you can live like no one else" That's a quote of his meaning if you save all your money, never spending, by the time your children's college is paid for and you're retired then you can begin spending your money that was invested wisely. But what if you don't live to retirement? What if your health fails in your older years? I chose the opposite. I wanted to live my whole life in the way that I chose to. To experience life day to day while I am physically able. My kids were there right along with me. And it's been a good life full of many different experiences. Some of which I'm not proud, but I can say "I did that. I've been there. I'm going to go there"
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