Blog #3

Luis had ruptured a sac that held the bottom of his intestine that had split and spilled its contents. This has happened only a few years after his family and him had moved to L.A. Luis had to get immediate surgery but once the doctors found out that they were immigrants they called the police. But after the surgery had gone the doctors realized that he had a circumcision. Doctors had to get that fix as soon as they could. After all that had happened the doctors called of reporting his family to the police. Time passed by and it was when Luis was in gangs and “tribes”. Luis and his crew decide to go to Huntington Beach to celebrate Clavo coming back home. Huntington beach was where most whites are. As the night was ending a few white males approached them. They began calling Luis and his crew greasers, beaners and more words. One of Luis “homey” Black Dog, as they would call him, replied back to the men that approached them. As soon as they kept replying back and forth the white male pulled out a police badge and a gun. They pointed the gun straight to group and made them squat for minutes. One of the police checked their jackets to see what they had. Everyone was clean besides black dog. He had caps of mescaline and joints. He got sent to a juvenile facility. Luis and everyone else was sent to the deputy office where the parents of everyone had to go pick up their kids. After that situation happened Luis started working for Yuk Yuk who would steal mainly anything and everywhere. It has gotten to the point where Luis had to point a gun to a innocent man so they could give them the money. If Luis did not complete what he had to do or if he backed out then he would be on the other side of the gun.

Blog #2

Luis Rodriguez has started to be part of the “thug life”. He has been visiting “the Hills” as everyone calls it, and has been spending a lot of his time out there. The Hills is mainly were all the cholos and cholas are. Going to the Hills is not a good example or a good way for Luis to be spending the night out there when he sneaks out of his house. Luis has started dressing like a cholo with the baggy pants, white t-shirt, and with their flannel shirts just buttoned on the first one. People from the East Bay that go to the hills take a little of the East Bay over there, but they still turn into cholos. Luis has been getting into trouble at school and not doing what he is supposed to do. One day Luis’s principal from school calls and talks to his mom. The principal tells his mom that he is a good kid, smart and he can get far with what he has. Since he has been misbehaving his principal mentioned that if it happens again then he will get expelled. His mom just cursed him out but his dad grounded him he told Luis that every day that school ends he has to go directly home but there's no point because later on when it's dark out Luis sneaks out and heads out to the hills.

Blog #1

“Grillo” as his dad would call him, him and his family have had been struggling living in Los Angeles. All his family do not know how to speak english that well. People do not see them as normal citizens even though they are not. They are all immigrants coming from Chihuahua Mexico. Grillos dad does not want to go back to Mexico because he feels like has nothing to do over there and wants to work in the US because he feels as if he has a better chance of being more successful here. Grillo’s mom begins to work just for part time since she still has to go home and make food with what they have at home. They have been struggling having to earn money just to have food or a piece of bread. Grillo has started going to school at the age of 6 his mom did not want him to go to school because his little sister was not at the age she would go to school. He was not able to learn anything most teachers had no idea what to do since he did not know english so they just had him sit in the corner building blocks. His dad decided to be a spanish teacher, unfortunately since he did not know english he did now know how else to teach the kids and he had to go look for another job.