Mark Mark Nelson:
CLASS OF 1985
Independence High SchoolClass of 1985
San jose, CA
Morrill Middle SchoolClass of 1981
San jose, CA
Laneview Elementary SchoolClass of 1978
San jose, CA
Mark Mark's Story
Life
I have to tell you that life is a trip. I have been having so much fun with mine. So many people sit and wonder what it would be like to do something, to live life and it is so easy just to go and do it. When I finished high school, I was on the road to nowhere. I finally join the Navy and got out of San Jose. I ended up spending 5 years on Guam. You have no idea what that was like. On an island that is only 28 miles long and 4 miles wide. I made it a blast. I became a military police officer. Can you believe that I enforced the law. Well most of the time. I also started DJing. Now that was something that I really got into. I don't know what life would be without music. Another thing that I started doing was scuba diving. Living on and island, where the water was 88 deg and with unlimited visability was incredible. Swimming with baracudas, turtles, rays and sharks like on the Discovery Channel. Now that made living on Guam worth it. Well that isn't exactly true. I think it was the people I met that made Gaum so cool. The friends I made friends there I will never forget. Since I got out of t...Expand for more
he Navy in 91, I have been living back in San Jose. I still have a lot of good friends and my life has not slowed down. I won the San Jose Fire fighter chili cook-off in 99 and since then I have won 6 other competitions. I have became a licenced sky diver. I'm riding my motorcycle where ever there is a road. If there is an adventure to be had, I am so there. Some people measure success by the things they own but I meassure it on how happy you are. I don't care how much money you have or where you live. If you can't look yourself in the mirror and say I love my life, your nothing. I love my life and there is so much more out there I haven't found yet. Just give me time.
Since I wrote that 4 years ago my life has taken a major turn. I found my daughter who was given up for adoption by her mother while I was overseas. She was 15 when I found her and she now lives with me full time here in San Jose. She is 17 and almost as fearless as I am. For her 16th birthday I took her skydiving with me and for 17 she did some class 4 ripds. That is just the start of all the adventures we are about to have.
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