Yesenia Acosta:
CLASS OF 1998
Socorro High SchoolClass of 1998
El paso, TX
Yesenia's Story
Life
Life...lets see...
My career is in full swing as a Graphic Designer. I work at the US State Department in Washington DC. Not bad for someone from Socorro, right?
I'm married now to a great guy. We've been together for 6 years and been married for 3 years. He's the best. Not like the losers I dated in high school, well more like the ONE loser I dated through high school. My husband is actually going places with his life. He works for the FBI and is as perfect for me as its gonna get. Married life has been good to me.
NO KIDS!!! God no! So typical to start cranking out kids at a young age. But that is our culture. Start young. I, on the other hand, have decided not to go that route. And at 27, I don't have children for a number of reasons:
1. I'm selfish. Yeah, that's right selfish. I would much rather buy myself a new pair of Paper Denim & Cloth jeans than diapers. I would rather party all night and sleep in the next day than get up and make breakfast and take care of screaming kids while nursing a hangover. We travel all over and no one likes to sit near screaming kids on a plane, including me.
2. They are expensive. Do you have any idea how much one of those costs? Sorry, again I would much rather spend it on a BMW 330i. Plus, I am really against having kids when you can't even support yourself. Get a decent job, find a home of your own THEN have kids. Kids deserve better than to be carted from one place to another while the parents are barely getting by. Still living at home with mom and dad with kids isn't my plan either. Till the day I can buy my own house on the hill-NO KIDS!!
3. I am plain and simply not ready to have kids. I get told all the time "You're never really ready to have kids" yeah well I'm really NOT ready. I know things change when you do have a kid, you change, everything changes and I think that's my biggest problem with kids. I've seen what kids do to relationships and I've seen what relationships do to kids. It's not always good and till I know for sure, I'm sticking to my current arrangement.
We have an anti-social cat, Boogie and that's all the responsibility we need at the moment. Someday it will change but I haven't come this far without getting knocked-up for nothing!!
School
School was a very mixed experience for me. I was the quiet skinny chick that always wore long skirts. I was never popular even though people knew who I was for some reason or another. I was very involved my junior year. I was in every club/event possible. Heck, I was in the pageant!! I did pretty well too.
Then senior year came I everything went down hill. I wasn't into anything, I became more of a wallflower and my grades went down. I just didn't care. I had become so sick of that school, sick of El Paso; sick of everyone in El Paso; I just mentally shut down. Course I didn't help that the *sshole I dated began making my life miserable after we broke up. But that's ok, becau...Expand for more
se whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger, and lord knows he tried to kill me on two separate occasions. I can laugh at him now because I know that what goes around comes around and he'll get his if he hasn't already. Plus I cursed him with gingivitis!!!
So the next day after Project Celebration, I packed my meager belongings into my car and got the hell out of El Paso. And I have not been back longer than a day since, and even that's too much. I don't miss El Paso or the people. It is my hometown but I have so many negative memories that I don't care for it too much. I do miss the Southwest but that's about it.
I loved Socorro High School; I just didn't spend the best of times there. It's a great place to get a jump-start on life. For me it was the jump-start to get as far away from that area as possible. And now living on the East coast I guess it worked.
College
College was a real eye opener. Everything I always wanted to do but never could/had the courage to do I did. I left El Paso in search of something bigger and better. I didn't want to become one of those people who think the world drops off into space outside of city limits! And sure enough there's a whole world outside El Paso/Juarez!
I became the complete opposite of what I was in high school. 180 degrees different!! No more wallflower. I became outgoing and open and tried new things.
1. I had a Goth phase...got pics to prove it!!
2. Dated outside of my own race...gasp!!
3. Decided I WASN'T going to hell, and all those people from church (you know who you are) who said I was are a bunch of hypocritical wannabe soul-savers who need to keep it in their pants before passing judgment on me. (Sorry, had to vent!)
4. Went to bars and clubs and became such a regular at one, I became one of the club dancers...yeap shy quiet little me on a platform-working it.
5. Drank alcohol for the first time on my 21st birthday, how a-typical is that?
6. Starting my small time modeling career...hey being skinny is a good thing especially when you are being flown all over the country and being paid for it!
7. Ate at restaurants that serve ethnic foods....sushi anyone? Turns out there's more to taste than just Mexican food!
I discovered myself in college. I shook off all the bad vibes I had in high school and started over, did everything over. I was in a new place with new people, new experiences to have and I was not gonna let it pass me by. I traveled, met people, dated and all round had a great time.
I also met my husband in college. He wasn't in college with me but we met at the local club where I danced (and no, there was no pole involved!). There he was, bad-boy Air Force sergeant checking me out from across the dance floor. How could I say no? I love a bad boy in uniform. And the rest they say is history.
Oh, I got an education and the paper that says so while I was there too.... almost forgot that part of my college experience!!
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